What's up everybody? I'm the hook and I'm the blade and together we're you know welcome to the hook blade podcast Where we discuss all things assassin's creed. I'm your host Lawson and with me as always is my co-host Tim Tim, how are you doing today? Each episode I get a little better, you know I'm I'm also doing doing pretty great today because I just had a wonderful time listening to Assassin's Creed Gold. Oh, yeah. Yeah Today today's episode guys. We're talking about Assassin's Creed Gold Which is an audio drama an original audio drama from audible set in the world of Assassin's Creed Tim and I have both listened to this and this episode is all about Reviewing Assassin's Creed Gold discussing it. What are our thoughts? What are the implications of its story for the future of Assassin's Creed? Tim, yeah, give me your entire thoughts on Assassin's Creed Gold in three words Not that great I mean, I mean, I think we could probably start with what we liked Yeah, let's start with the things that were good and then we liked about it. All right, so I'll have you kick that off Yeah, I mean first of all, I think that if you're going to do an Assassin's Creed story about a blind dude a blind assassin An audio drama is literally perfect for that for obvious reasons. I was like Why did I never think about how smart it is to do an audio drama about a blind character? Yeah, it just makes sense. It's a great idea. You can't see It's an audio drama Yeah, and I mean and going off of that too like I think In terms of the historical main character, which is Omar, yeah I do think they picked a setting like I had no idea what the what the fuck the great re coinage was right So it's it's nice that it was it was a setting that was decently interesting totally And I think it's a great example of when you have these sort of trans media facets of the Assassin's Creed universe You can choose Settings and time periods that don't make sense for a video game No one wants to play the great re coinage But I might listen to a story about it or to read a comic about it Right exactly and Anthony Del Col the writer on this he's he kind of comes from the comic side of things doesn't he? Yeah, he's I remember we were both really into we were excited for for trial by fire the the first like comic Right series back in 2015. Yeah, that yeah, that was like the big Titan comics thing and he wrote trial by fire I'm not sure if he wrote any arcs past that but he definitely wrote trial by fire So I would not be surprised based on how well this audio drama has done for them financially I would not be surprised to see him return or do something else for Assassin's Creed in the near has it done well financially Yeah, um, let me see if I can pull up the thing. I was looking at it's got it's got good reviews on the audible site Which is probably a good sign for them. Yes. Yeah, it's there. It's audibles top-rated series of 220 it's the number one good after a thousand reviews and counting Yeah, and you know what? I mean, I see the appeal like I understand Why people would like Assassin's Creed gold? You know, I mean like even if it didn't blow me away. I didn't love it I I see where people could love it. Does that make sense? No a hundred percent? I mean, I feel the same way. I'm glad that people are getting enjoyment out of it like a hundred percent Yeah, I don't think that like just because I didn't love it doesn't mean that other people shouldn't have fun with it Like and I would welcome that perspective. Like I haven't even seen anyone talking about it So like in my circle, I guess like there hasn't been a lot of Assassin's Creed like fan community Yeah, I totally I missed that it even came out. It seems like no one knows exists It's interesting because I think that audio dramas are kind of coming back into the the zeitgeist a little bit because of audible and podcasts and things of that nature and Assassin's Creed makes sense for that medium and I'm always I'm always excited about pieces of media and Assassin's Creed that are at least intending to further the modern-day story because That's an element of the franchise. It's really important to me And since they're always Ubisoft is really nervous about doing modern-day in games every time They're like all but but some of the reviewers don't like it when we do when we do modern-day stuff You don't like it. So we're not gonna do it. I love your Ubisoft voice. This is my Ubisoft voice. It's so great Which isn't which isn't my impression of Eve Guillemot, which we're saving for a special occasion Yes, I will say though in that and what you just said intended to move forward the modern-day is a very important Let's talk about that Wait, wait, so are we done with the things we liked it was the Okay, we're not I also I like Riz Ahmed. I think he does a good. I like his voice. I like his accent in this Really didn't like Riz no, what what what what was wrong with Riz? He I just look It's a great actor if you're listening I like you Riz But in this I don't I didn't love you I see this is really strange to me because usually really like when especially assassins Creed characters go for the stoic badass vibe Yeah, but it's just like I don't know it didn't it didn't Find itself in the like Altair realm it found itself in like the Connor boring realm No, no, I'll tell you is worse the well AC one I'll tell you is like a much worse iteration of stoic badass than well You're wrong Mar like I think Omar I think his voice he was able to capture like the sort of thoughtful stoic badass like you can tell he's choosing his words carefully I got the vibe of the character someone who's been through like, you know He's experienced racism and and you know ableism because of his blindness and the world that he's Sort of grown up in has been kind of harsh to him I totally bought that he's the kind of guy who just You know, he keeps things close to the vest so to speak like he's not he's not talking all over the place He's not saying things that are Superfluous or extra. He's just you know, he's being calm collected thoughtful. I thought he did a good job In terms of in terms of Riz Ahmed's character. I mean spoilers. Yeah for this But even in his most like passionate scene with rose, there's no emotion It seems Like no, that wasn't my read of it. I felt like he was he's maybe I kind of relate to this a little bit more I think he's just maybe one of those guys who's not super openly emotional like that can be a character. Perhaps. Yeah But even when he's angry like there are very little times when he's like Like like the rage inside of him is coming out and there's not a lot of emotion You know, I think that's part of what we're dealing with like the medium, too I mean when you're trying to express rage and you're trying to express anger Like purely with your voice. It's gonna be a little challenging versus But it's yeah, so like out of all the voice actors in in AC gold for me Riz did the best job And I guess it's not surprising because he's the like professional Hollywood actor in the cast and I just saw the other day and add For Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Riz Ahmed is playing a character in that So I feel like his agent. He was probably like hey set me up with audible. Let me just do it I wonder if he's like a rich tech guy in that movie in what movie and Candyman No, no, no Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Oh the Sandman. Yeah the comic I don't know why I thought he's a candy man. Yeah, okay Yeah, but you're right though that Riz Ahmed he was playing rich tech guys and things cuz born and venom and isn't there another one. I Don't know probably another one you could say he's rich with life in nightcrawler Okay, we all are to some extent. Yeah. Yeah Anyway, any other good things about AC gold? I think the rose galloway actress did probably the best Oh, I thought she did great too. Yeah, she was very fun to listen to she actually I bought Her like emotional state. Yeah most all of the all of the historical voice actors were Fairly decent like Isaac Newton. He's definitely a little corny, but it fit with the tone of assassin's creed Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a very like vibrant and animated voice that he he comes up with excrement. Yeah I appreciated that Um, and I also want to say I like a couple things about the way that Look, and I'm not gonna get too deep into this But something that people talk about on assassin's creed is how you know You can be playing as Cassandra and Odyssey, right? You can be a female warrior in Uh ancient Greece and people think oh well in these in these assassin's creed games. They never want to acknowledge like actual you know Discrimination and racism and sexism like those elements never factor into their historical stories and I'm never one that I don't protest that I think that that just makes the game more inclusive and entertaining for the most amount of people But I liked that they had the freedom in assassin's creed gold to actually, you know, there is racism against Against Omar in the story and it and it feels like part of the world and it feels like part of his character It's not ignored Same with with furrows, you know, she talks about the unique pressures of And expectations of a woman in that time period and that that all struck me as authentic and well handled So I applaud del call and the team for that choice. I agree so I guess in terms of now things that we didn't like. Yeah Um I I guess just off the bat. There's no more general complaint that I had. Yeah, um, there was just a lot of pacing issues I felt Uh, for sure. I haven't there's like eight chapters or both like half an hour So there's a lot of time in this to cover. Yeah, and I just I felt like especially like early on in the story when aliyah aliyah khan is first in the Animus and omar is like doing some cool shitties fighting people and like in between those scenes aliyah just pops up and she's like I never liked washing machines And it's like this completely breaks the pace like Let me let me get into omar like stabbing dudes and then she's like I can't do a british accent. My cousins trapped me in a washing machine. It's like This isn't what I this isn't the exposition I need right now. I agree. I look aliyah I don't think she's a bad character necessarily, but I do think that a lot of those Those sort of monologues that would kind of come in in the middle of things Like I felt like they didn't do a great job of justifying their existence I never felt like I was learning anything Really insightful or valuable about aliyah to justify her like jumping into the middle of the historical stuff Uh, you know like yeah, I mean sorry go ahead Actually, I lost my turn to thought you go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. Um, no, I was just gonna say I mean and speaking of justifying their existence. I mean they kind of just pop up out of nowhere I suppose this is just her internal thought But I would have much rathered Like and and I and I'll get into my problems like with with gavin's character But I think having her Express herself to like gavin or michelle would have been a much better way to dump all that exposition Then and I understand it's a problem with the medium like You can't Yeah, there isn't a lot of room to to have these long drawn out scenes So you got to kind of put it in the middle of the action. Yeah, but I would argue that Having her talk to gavin about herself and maybe trusting him a little And revealing that would have been a little bit better for her character and in the pacing probably Yeah, because it would be accomplishing more than one thing at a time Which is definitely a signifier of good writing is when you can nail plot development and character development in the same scene in the same conversation Didn't feel like they were doing that with those like aliyah monologues and speaking of aliyah kind of interrupting things There's a lot of moments, especially early on where like she sort of comments on The historical stuff that's happening, which I think is an interesting device and can be used really well in assassins creed but Definitely like it kind of suffers from the assassins creed movie syndrome where it just pulls you out of what's happening in the moment Where you think that in one moment you're hearing this historical story And then they just really want to remind you That you're actually like watching through someone's memories in the modern day And all that that reminder is earning for them is like a snide comment or joke from aliyah. Yeah. Yeah, it's like Like very very early on, you know anything. Omar does or says, you know, she's just like wow She kind of she kind of just interrupts the dialogue a little bit. Yeah So as far as the modern day goes there's kind of a lot of things wrong with it and I want to talk about Sort of what I see is like the central mistake of the modern day story And this is something that happens in assassins creed All the time where they're trying really hard to justify The story But they're not Following a consistent like plot logic whatsoever And what happens here is the the big threat that they're trying to thwart is that this this woman Who works for obstergo And it's a writer I believe is her name who conveniently happens to be like this girl boss idol for aliyah Yeah, yeah, I I I just it was not It's the way she just name drops one person from obstergo and that one person so happens to be the bad guy And people don't tend to have that kind of like real admiration for like pharmaceutical executives It's like it's like if elon musk's lawyer was my idol Yeah, like any it's a writer from what they describe of her is not Is not doing things that are necessarily worthy of everyone being blown away by her and it's not like there aren't Female leadership at obstergo like isabel ardant was around at the time I think You know like people like yeah anyway All I'm saying is yeah very convenient But there's a lot of convenience like My dad left me also happens to be a big templar guy who's working on this project Even though that has literally no causal or direct relationship whatsoever To the fact that gavin banks and michelle. What's her name? Have grabbed me to view my ancestors memories. You know what I mean? Like yeah, you can draw a very thin causal line there where the likelihood of Your ancestor being an assassin when your direct parentage is also involved in the assassin templar Conflict that there is some relationship there. Yeah But it's it's not really really direct enough Yeah, I mean it's just really trying to add some tension in that last scene. Yeah Like It's it's just to go like wow the first person aliyah killed was her father That's what they're like like it's just I honestly I did I did I didn't mind that whole bit where they were like infiltrating Obsturgo. I I didn't mind it. It's just like I also felt like when aliyah was describing Her relationship to her dad and the way that she kind of like daydreamed about Like if she'd met him what she would say to him what she would do That's all super authentic and very like legitimate character stuff and I appreciated that I was disappointed that all it led up to was like I'm your daughter.  No, you're not and he's like, what are no, you're not and then she kills him And he's like and he's like, I'm sorry aliyah I should have been a better father to you like not in those exact terms But basically no no no that's pretty much what he does.  They'll be able to redirect and And control the transactions that happen within it So I believe if I'm understanding correctly that the big fear they have about this is that you know templars would be able to intercept like Transactions regarding, you know, say someone tries to contract a hitman on the dark web, right? And then templars intercept that and they make it so the target is someone else or something Or they just control the drug trade or they control all of this Very vague sort of a very consequence also completely impossible because Controlling the dark web or intercepting the the activity of the dark web Is about as as logical and and possible of a thing as just intercepting all of the purchases made on the internet Because really the dark web is just part of the internet. It's just not indexed by search engines, right? right, so how are they going to? Do that in the first place and even if they were able to do that What is the actual consequence that happens? Like what is what is the abstracto able to do? Because they can control the dark web. I know that listeners can't see me making the quotation marks with my fingers But i'm doing that I guess they could like incriminate People they don't like It's not it's not talked about. It's not very it's not very much. You're not supposed to think about it All all you're supposed to know is that there is this very big threat And for whatever reason only gavin and michelle are trying to fix it also The only way to fix it is with a password On a coin on a coin from The 1600 now let's think about this for a second Why What is What is the causal relationship between these fuckos at obstegos saying Let's make the password for this something that was printed on a coin in the 1600s And then how do gavin and michelle Know about it. Yeah, it's like if you know about the phrase you'd probably know the phrase How do they know? Oh, yeah. Well, I have this buddy at obstego who is like, yeah The password was printed on a coin in the 1600s It's like a scavenger hunt, but through memories.   Yeah That's going back for information is a really great idea Yeah, but It's like it almost it almost feels like like here's the thing I think the problem with it is that the phrase in the back of the coin means nothing to the historical characters Also, how do you as gavin and michelle as assassins, right? How do you go? Okay? Well We have this one ancestor that there's like direct lineage access to Uh, and he was blind How how sure can you be at all that there's even a chance that that dude ever learns the the phrase on a coin Yeah, and what and what gavin says is we're putting all of our like we're we're betting it all on this We're putting all our eggs in this fucking basket, right? And this blind basket that might not even go anywhere. Yeah, and of course it does because they need it to of course it does but Jesus it is it would have been great if she came out and she didn't find it and then you know, it was over That would just be what happened at unity. Yeah Spoiler alert for unity. Yeah. Spoiler for unity.  I don't think anyone I don't think anyone who is listening to this has somehow not played unity there I I don't I just you know Do you know how often on my youtube videos I've been slaughtered for not putting a spoiler warning and it was like The video is titled assassins creed origins. What went wrong? What do you think I'm going to talk about?  It's because That was all that they could think of for the writers to get this for you know, Anthony del call that was the choice that he made about how the plot should go Sure. I mean, but just just in general like his His plan with aliyah is to uh, is to like Pay off her student loans or not. No, sorry.  Yeah That's like that that's his pitch and I just meanwhile I would have like the the I felt like the omar when he's trying to recruit rose I thought he did a beautiful job of kind of explaining and Justifying the assassin brotherhood, but you're right. Gavin's just like i'm part of the brotherhood of assassins Do you want to join us? And then michelle's like uh gender neutral, please.  She just met this one. Yeah, michelle is my least favorite in this entire thing Oh, she is the worst on a writing and an acting level just Just very very bad.  No, it was annoying at first shan got to be be pleasant and charming later But when he's introduced an assassin's creed too and he's like, I don't have time for this.   What are you? Who are you? I I I agree with you, but like I think Yeah, michelle. I agree with you. We agree with you. Oh, absolutely. Yes And she never becomes charming or interesting in this story No, like her she's just like I know what it's like to lose everything. Oh dude There's literally a moment where it's like oh someone pressed the michelle tragic backstory button Because that's happening now and the sad music is coming in and it's like When other when omar talks about his tragic backstory at feels that feels Real that feels normal in the conversation. And then when michelle starts talking about her tragic backstory, it's like Why? Who asked? Come on gang, let's go find out who asked That's the thing about the whole thing is like she doesn't know these people There's nothing about their cause And then she wakes up out of the animus occasionally and michelle just will talk to her or be pitchy to her whatever it is And it's like She hardly knows these people. Yeah, also it doesn't feel earned. She just wakes up and michelle's like exposition You're completely right. Also, um I think my bigger problem you you mentioned you said that like the the character relationships between like Aliyah and michelle like it's not earned and something that's really not earned and really frustrating to me Is how many times in the historical plot you have this like really cheap switcheroo of like You know, there's this moment where they really want to convince you that newtons actually a bad guy They're trying really hard. Yes, and you know that that's not the case from the jump You just know like yeah, I mean the the big problem with that is is at first. Omar's like it's not true I won't believe it and I'm like, okay. Yeah, cool. You know like because that twist isn't terrible It's just I felt no it's smart to have challenger the villain frame written for all of the things that challenger is doing That makes sense, but then try to convince omar and the audience that it's true Yeah No, like absolutely, but the also as omar goes from I I don't believe it and then like in the next scene He's completely Operating on the hypothetical that that isaac did it. Yeah Like like in the prison and everything he's like he killed those 12 men How about how about the part where he falls in love with rose and they Apparently have sex while we listen to aliyah and shawn banter in vr and then After they've had this moment where she's like i've always loved you and he's like yes I felt the same and then um, you know A scene later.  It's like That was not a turn that felt authentic I mean already I felt like the love plot the chemistry romance between omar and rose Like it was almost there like I almost totally bought it They spent enough time with the two of them that you could kind of get in the sense of like Yeah, I see him being attracted to her. I see her being attracted to him And then when she becomes a villain It's like the idea that she's someone who would be willing to kill omar potentially Like to protect her dad or whatever it was That I didn't buy at all and then i'm just rolling my eyes No, none of that is particularly earned and You you get into a more interesting point there too is She goes from like yeah, she's been being trained by omar for let's say like a week maybe two weeks And the only training that we see is them like fist fighting. That's it and And and while you think it's good and I agree with you it's good But omar's explanation of the creed to her begins and ends in one scene She accepts it without any like apprehension.  I'm not going to ask too many questions about this sounds cool Also, like you're hot. I don't know. I disagree I I disagree on that I I just like look I mean I'm not saying I wanted like a whole episode or chapter rather of rose like deciding on it It just it seemed very quick for someone to commit their life to the assassin cause with only knowing the tenets And he didn't even mention the most important part of which is nothing is true everything's permitted Like he didn't even meant he didn't finish the explanation I liked that the way he explained the tenets. He at least gave them context in their world Yeah, something that doesn't always happen when they talk about the creed. Yeah, where they'll be like I agree, you know stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent Duh Hide-and-plan sight. What does that mean? You know like And he kind of I know I justifies it and very often I feel like the the creed doesn't actually when you look at it on its own feel that important like it's basically just like top 10 tips to be an assassin, but When you frame it the way that Omar frames it then he can kind of he suggests this deeper meaning to each of the tenets and to me That stuff worked Yeah, and and and I agree. I just I feel like Also, well, yeah, and I I I feel like him and rose is kind of had a had a very Rushed acceptance of all that and I will say what I didn't like about Omar and rose as well Is they treat eagle vision as if it's a superpower, but it always has been though No, it has not really ego Eagle vision does not make you be able to suddenly be able to parkour And do all that stuff like eagle vision assists you and you can see shit It doesn't make you better a better assassin. Yeah, it does like the fact If you could the fact that if you could see through walls, you would be a better assassin No, no, but no, but that's different though is is what is she what's happening in In rose's perspective is like she can literally anticipate movements And she like can run across rooftops now because she has eagle vision and my recollection I don't remember anything like that in any of the but okay, but but it's not that she can run across rooftops Now that she has eagle vision. She's Always had the the sense of it, you know, like but she's never known how to apply it I think that's the idea is that all my is like here are the ways you can use it So like yeah, it's a sudden turn, but it's just sort of tapping into an ability She's always had look I would totally agree with you if it weren't for the fact that eagle vision has never been consistent in In an ac game. It's always meant different. I think it's only not been consistent recently though And yeah, now you can literally see through the eyes of your bird And that strikes me as a lot less realistic than the way rose uses eagle vision in this I I just yeah, I mean, I would agree with you that it is it is a Convenient gameplay mechanic, but I do also think that the eagle vision thing. It's just yeah I mean it becomes less rare whenever you're sashing you play Yes, but it is like it's not even It's not even consistent who does and does not have it and for what reason Because it used to be this like bloodline thing and now it's like I mean, we're going to be playing a viking in this next game who will have odin site And will not have any formal connection to assassins at the start of the game by our by our understanding they've definitely just given the volume of Excuse me the volume of content in the series eagle vision has been played around with a lot I just originally, you know, it was like the sixth the sixth sense that they hid from everyone and and the issue have it But only certain Very directly related issue or sorry very directly humans related to the issue like can possess it But you I mean you can train it because it's like a latent ability. You can train it apparently But anyway, I don't want to get too deep in the eagle vision garbage. It's just not garbage, but yeah Yeah, I I just I I think like the way like look the way omar uses it to be daredevil I'm not a big fan. I like but uh, whatever because whatever if eagle vision lets you see through walls How is it controversial that it lets you see period? Look, okay, sure When you put it like that, I'll accept that premise Omar Omar, I also think I mean in his explanation of the creed and everything and look I appreciate his his the way he's kind of like a pacifist now Just because he doesn't want to unleash them the monster that's within him and all that and I appreciate that It's a it's a trope and it's not my favorite trope to be like, yeah I'm seeing I'm like this badass warrior But I I keep it I keep it within because I don't want to I don't want to hurt people Right. He's dangerous, but he can control it But the thing is is like the way he explains the creed and everything I just like I appreciate the pacifist perspective of the creed And I I don't think it's unreasonable. I just I also don't know if I agree So much that like the assassins are are pacifist by nature Right. He kind of presents you kind of presents it like They're like jedi. They they have always had this problem in assassins creative this sort of dissonance where Like on one hand, we are supposed to be the good guys But on the other hand our chief means of achieving those good outcomes is with killing And I I think that they should lean into that and explore that Whereas a lot of media ac gold included Kind of ties to tries to sweep it onto the rug a little bit like uh, well We try not to kill people, but sometimes we have to you know Yes, like just just lean into it. Just be like this is not morally good. It's morally gray We're doing something that obviously it's there's no moral justification for killing people Um, no matter how many like trolley games you want to play, right? But yes at the same time like you have to acknowledge that Yeah, it would be better if we weren't killing this many people or we know that this is bad But we do it anyway because that's the choice we make and we understand it and we know it but Whatever, I mean I think at the end of the day the biggest thing for me, right is you have the entire plot of the story resting on this completely unfathomable and illogical You know threat and then you have These characters where I feel like for aliyah and omar as the primary characters of the story I don't feel like they have an arc at all. I feel like both of them are written to be Like cool clever badasses from the beginning to some extent and yeah, they have flaws, but They're never confronting or addressing those flaws. They're never changing or becoming better people At the end of the story the only change for aliyah is that Like she might I don't know. She might try to be an assassin now Which would be cool and fine But that's about the most boring arc you can do for an assassin's creed character When the only thing that that happens is that they decide to become an assassin like for edward kenway Yeah, that's his arc. He decides to become an assassin But it has so much more meaning because Of the changes he's gone through where he's seen all of his friends die And he's lost the the love that that mattered to him And his pursuit of greed has returned him nothing That is a is a story That is that is impactful change on a character and you understand at the end Why devoting yourself to a higher cause is something that he would do Now you have aliyah. Aliyah goes from I don't know my dad. I sure wish I could pay back my investors to I killed my dad and also paid back my investors But as a character, there's nothing going on deeper than that Omar starts the story as a stoic badass You find out more about him as time goes on and he is kind of a an interesting character to listen to for me But by the end he's still a stoic badass. Like maybe he'll train more people or or you know Take a rest or whatever, but again, there's no clear Visible or in this case audible change No arc Yeah, I agree with you and I think that was very well said. Thank you. I think um Yeah In like aliyah's big revelation Is like at the end, you know, um Everything works out.  That was pretty cool And her big like arc is that she gets over her claustrophobia Like that was her big character moment Gavin implies that this whole like prince george thing where they're going to go around like You know putting criminals in jail and and returning their their stolen money Like he acts like oh, this is just something you inspired us to do aliyah Really as an assassin You never thought about that you never had the idea like what if we robbed from the rich and gave to the people they stole from Or or what if what if we held people account like I don't know what That no that That's the thing is is they don't allow gavin to be smart and thinking for himself He's so he's a plot device in character form. Yeah, he's he's just a character there for aliyah to Like bounce ideas off of essentially I mean it's just and and speaking of like I don't mean to jump around too much But there was something interesting that I wanted to mention that I thought I found was really silly was like when rose Uh makes that very very graceful turn into into villain She yeah, that turn is handled with about the grace of an 18 wheeler full of spaghetti careening a tight corner Yes, very much so Like that turn she throws the knife, you know And there's there's also there's no mention that they even trained with knives Anyway, she throws the knife in his in his neck perfectly and finnigan is down finnigan's done for and five seconds later Omar and Nicholas or nikolai or whatever his name is and isik newton Are like bantering about a carriage I don't know if you remember this but like literally I mean, I remember the finnigan's down I guess you're right. It was an abrupt turn finnigan is finnigan is on the ground dead They've just said they're goodbyes and isik newton is like We need a carriage and and nicholas. I think is is like Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have to take a public one and isik is like a public one And Omar is like isik excrement. It's like Okay, my least favorite thing like my nitpick That's my my least favorite scene is that they're breaking into obstergo and they've got to tie up this like janitor And and he's like, yeah, I've got a family.  It's like That's just emotional manipulation and it's not even particularly effective at all Yeah, like I never when the only detail I learned about a character is that they have a family And and aliyah's like relating to him. She's like, oh, yeah, you from where I'm from bruv like Why do I care about that? Yeah, I don't care about that. Yeah, I don't even care about you I believe Why should I care about this like yeah, and you can tell in the moment when they discover the body that he thought Like he thought he was being clever like they thought this was and I'm sorry It's just not good. But like the michelle and like shawnai relationship, you know, like at the end at the end She's like, oh, they're best friends now and they what's up with I can't do an accent. I'm sorry, but why is he here? Because I am convinced that ubisoft said look, we need to get some shawnai. I don't know, man They're not particularly Interested in putting shawnai in anything else. I don't know why they'd want to put him If he could use shawnai, why would they use an ai word? It's so weird And I was watching the behind the scenes like Like reading of the lines and stuff and shawnai. Yeah. Yeah, and uh And shawnai popped up and and I just thought it was so sad Just to see this this this wonderful guy that we all love Danny Wallace just reading these terrible lines Maybe that's harsh. I just not great lines Again, I think annie del call is a talented writer and I think I want to know more about how this story came to be because if he just wrote all of this and no one Metaled with it at all that would surprise me a little bit because I mean like he's written a bunch of things And I've I've read some of his comics. I think I think he's a good writer So this just doesn't make sense to me. There's so much wrong with this story and the things that it chooses to To talk about I I do agree with you. Um Yeah, I should be I I think I think he's a great writer. We have both read trial by fire. We were both really, uh excited about that when I was coming out um, so I I don't think that this necessarily reflects This talent or anything. It's just something happened with this and and there are good things and there are bad things about it And I hope they do more I hope we do another audio drama and they do a cool setting and they get some cool cast members and they you know Make it happen And I wouldn't even hate seeing anthony del call come back and do another one Honestly, all I want all that I need from an assassin's creed audio drama is just focus give us meaningful stakes Give it some thematic resonance. Give it some some narrative oomph some interesting drama I don't think this is too much to ask. I really don't make it feel like Like it was rewarding to listen to Beyond just knowing what's happening in the world of assassins creed We're going to talk a little bit more about this in the modern day episode that we have planned but The balance of power in the modern day assassins creed world is really unclear It feels like the assassins are underdogs when they want them to be and superheroes when they want them to be And so it's really hard to get a hold of what the balance of power who's winning You know, what is what are the stakes? What's going to happen if we lose this battle? What's going to happen if we win this battle? And it just makes it all all of it from the layla story in the games to the comics to the books to this All of it feels A lot less tangible and a lot less easy to understand and care about Yeah, I I agree with you. And I think they used to have a much tighter grasp on that So I guess to kind of sum this up a lot of Promising things about ac gold a lot of things that that are likable and and Good about it, but on the whole kind of falls short and a lot of the really important narrative senses and uh, so on the whole I'd give it like Like a five out of 10 Maybe a four and a half. What do you think? Uh out of 10 Uh, I'm gonna have to go with like a two really. I know I'm just joking. Oh, okay. Okay. I would say I would It wasn't like completely incoherent. No. Yes. I I think I'm more in line with your rating I I'd say a four and a half. Yeah, okay. I'll give it a solid five. I'll go five really All right. Yeah, I think Yeah, because I thought I liked it more than you did But maybe you know what I think what it is is I enjoyed it more than you did But I think less of its quality from a critical perspective. Yeah So thank you guys for listening. Um to this episode of the hook blade podcast I've been the hook and I have been the blade again titles, which mean nothing But simply serve to make our podcast title makes sense Thank you for listening to this episode of the hook blade and we will catch you next time


15 of the ban on foreign exchange for 43 items by the Central Bank of Nigeria may ruin local economy. A member of the House of Representatives, Saada Soli, warned on Tuesday on the floor of the House of Representatives. This is just as the House invited the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Yemi Kadoso, to appear before it following the apex bank's decision to leave the foreign exchange ban on fertilizer, cement, toothpick and 40 other items. The 43 items were in 2015 restricted from accessing forex at the official market rate. CBN's sudden decision to leave the ban comes against a backdrop of high volatility levels experienced in the foreign exchange market owing to the unification of all trading windows into the investors and exporters window of the official FX market by President Boda Chinabu's administration. At a planned recession on Tuesday, the Green Chamber passed a resolution to summon the CBN governor following the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Saada Soli, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Jibya Keita Federal Constituency Katsina State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates. Thank you.


Hi everyone, my name's Hope. I will be giving you guys this tour up and make the whole complex but before we start I'm gonna let the cameraman introduce himself. Yes, let's see if I can turn this around. Perfect. Hey everyone My name is Henry. I'm gonna be monitoring the chat today So if you have any questions, I'll be sure to ask Hope then and if there's any like glitches in the feed or anything Be sure to let me know we can get that sorted out and also in the meantime Let us know where you're tuning in from like sitting state. Nope. What's first up on the agenda? All right, we're actually gonna step outside first. I'm gonna show you guys the outside of the buildings and where each Mm-hmm. It's a nice cool 102 degree degrees today Yeah We went this way, this is the courtyard of Maple East and Maple West. Maple West is on the left Maple East is on the right. We just came from Maple East And we went the opposite way. The building over there is Maple South. Maple South is its own building It has its own desk whereas of Maple East and West Shera Desk So it's a little different with packages over at Maple East West than it is at South Gotcha And we've already gotten some questions in what building were we in we were in Maple Hill East And can you go into a suite with a loft? We will be going into a lofted suite But that'll be towards the end of the show. All the maples have keypops and those get you in and out of the building If you live in Maple East, you can only get into Maple East. Same thing with South, same thing with West. Gotcha. Back to where we were. Again, this is Maple East. Mm-hmm. This is a front desk This is where you're gonna be able to check out any equipment. Maple East and West will pick up packages from this desk as well as mail Maple South again has their own desk. Looks exactly similar Again on the first floor. Maple South will get their packages and their mail from Maple South. Gotcha. But yeah, as I said before you can check out any type of equipment We'll see a pool table and a ping pong table and things like that in these buildings You can check out stuff for that board games. I think there's even like Wii games back here There's movies kind of almost anything you can think of. Come to desk Our execution here till about 10 p.m. You can check them out. Gotcha. It has all the games. Yes. All the games you can imagine All right, we're gonna come this way. This is like the power area of Maple East in its branch. The desk There is a ping pong table and you'll see people obviously can ping pong here almost any hour of the day There's almost always someone playing ping pong here or chilling in the lobby We come over here A little study room It's a little nice kind of summer room area. Yeah Sometimes people like studying in here. It's also a really nice quiet place Because there's not a lot of people in and out of this because it is only one way in one way out So it is a nice little area. And there's these study rooms. So we're in Maple East But these kind of common areas are throughout the maples. Yes To our right we'll be able to see some mailboxes. You're gonna you can see what mailbox you have in the housing portal And if we keep coming this way I can't lose you guys to the CREs of the maples. Hello who wants to go first Okay, let's go first Um, I'm the coordinator for us in education for Maple Hill South Everybody my name is Talia. I'm the CRE for Maple West And I'm Matt and I'm the CRE of Maple East. Gotcha. Can one of y'all explain what a CRE is? Cool. So a CRE is someone who pretty much Overseas the day-to-day operations that everything going on in this building Uh, we'll supervise all the resident assistants in here We kind of oversee everything going on the front desk and then everything that happens in here We're responsible for so all the programming efforts Everything that you see going on the building like that's our staff running it We'll do all the purchasing planning or anything like that And then they're having roommate conflicts or anything like that that the RAs may not be able to fully address That's when you'll come to us and talk to us about everything. Awesome. Gotcha Well, y'all let us know if you have any questions for our CREs and in the meantime, where will we head to next? All righty, we're gonna check out a little bit more common areas before we head up to the rooms Actually just this way one of the special things about the maples is that it has its own mental health services and there is a It's like counselor and a resident right over there Oh in the vending machines back there too bathrooms also as well as some classrooms in the maples There are some classes held here if you're in a university perspectives class That's what's usually held in the maples Gotcha So what are you studying? What's your major? I am double majoring in chemical engineering and chemistry and chemical minoring and business math and sociology Wow all the all the majors and minors. Yeah Um, this is one of the pool table assignments I mentioned before this is one of the common areas We're actually going to head up to the fourth floor and look at some of the rooms over there Gotcha And y'all we're going to the elevator right now. So we may lose a little bit of connection So bear with us if we do And in the meantime, hope you're going to be an RA next semester, right? Yes. Could you explain what an RA is and what they do? Yeah, so an RA stands for resident assistant We basically help with the transition between high school and college We oversee conflicts that may happen between people and we make sure that everyone in building feels safe and secure with their Christian college Gotcha And you're going to be in one of the maples, right? Yes, I'll be in Maple West Cool. So maybe some people of you in the stream right now will be able to meet you in person. Are you going to do any programming for them? Oh a hundred percent. What is what is one of your programs look like? Any style really I've done anything from like baking programs to like planting flowers to actually almost everything I've also like partnered up with other RA's and things like that and we've had like group programs I know one of the RA's that I building last year I was really good friends with and we did a lot of programs together Which brought out more residents because they want to know more about us and want to know more about Each other things like that All right, so we're actually going to go into this study In the maples there is a main study on each floor and this one's it There's going to be a TEE, a toaster oven, a microwave and a sink On the first floor in the maples there is a stove and oven, but it's only on the first floor. Gotcha All right, so several common spaces throughout the maples seems like you can always find find one somewhere Yes, did you any uh, I know the gaming sometimes happens in that space sometimes my I am not personally a gamer. Um, I know last year A lot more movie nights happen in these spaces Personally to myself Then gaming nights. Gotcha All right, so we're gonna head from the hallway and just a reminder we're in maple east right now We said earlier that it is really really hot today So we're not going to be building jumping between the three, but all the maples are basically the same Gotcha So if we come in here, this is a laundry room. There's two laundry rooms on each floor. They're identical to this You know two washers and two dryers Um We are switching to a new system this year. You will be able to have two washes and two drives per week And it will be through an app that you guys will download once you guys get here. Yeah, and it's called speak queen. Yes Basically, I fish out the name that can make you are earlier scan it and that's how they keep track of your washes and dryers Gotcha And so next up is the study room at the end of the hall, right? Look at another study room over on the left And we'll point out the one on the right The one on the right, there's not much to see. It's kind of against like a concrete room kind of area There's like a table with a bunch of chairs and a white board I know that a lot of my friends like to use it last year to like study And do like practicing all like this a lot of late nights for midterms and finals Oh, yeah, so this is another one of the studies But you'll see there's gonna be two studies like this on each floor And then as I mentioned of the other type of study, there's also going to be two of the other There's four on each floor or I think someone said studies, but there's two that look like this Gotcha.  Okay And now we're moving on to to some rooms, right? There's so much room for activities. Yeah Alrighty, um, we're gonna look at the loft. Yeah, let's look at the loft first and then we'll go to the more typical Yeah, the more typical room I believe it'll be this one on the left We are in neighborhood east 417 right now. Gotcha Alrighty, so this is one of the block rooms. These are like one of the most common and most popular rooms like well wanted rooms in the main halls These host four people got two and two in two and a two d You have your own bathroom and have your own vanity. That's one of the Purcs of these vehicles is everybody have them in the bathroom. Gotcha. So we'll look quickly in here. Let's turn all the light in this And all the furniture is the same for each of the rooms. Yes For the most part Gotcha, and then we can look at the bathroom really quick And then we can go up Be sure you also let us know if you have any questions about the rooms about looking at the maples They do the lofts do come with furniture as you can see It's this exact same furniture and every small loft. Again, you're free to bring your own But you're not allowed to move this furniture out of the room Yeah, this is what it totally looks like people always deck these out really nice You're always really awesome at We have a question. Um, are the floors themselves co-ed? Yes And our shower curtains provided I believe they were right shower curtains are provided you can bring your own but again, you can't like Get rid of one because we need those for that Gotcha And yes, the lofts do you come with the furniture? Someone just asked And someone just asked the new washing system this year is Two washes and two dryers per week. That is correct. Um, and then after that you'll be uh charge a certain amount A dollar fifty for each additional one We'll get a typical room in the maples. This is what almost every single room looks like. We're going to look at room 408 We have a living room area And then we have a room that hosts two people and even that hosts two people a safe amenity Gotcha So here's what a room looks like And you'll almost know if the audio or video is uh is acting up So we're gonna open up one of these And so there's also a little night stand in here as well that you can take out Or a little additional drawers And someone just asked are there dressers in the room or just the armoire? Um, there is a dresser inside of the amour that we just showed so this is the dresser Yes, people take these out so they have more space in the amours and they use them as dressers This nightstand Either a warm gotcha and all this furniture is movable And someone just asked will these be online to watch after and yes, they will All right Yeah, so We'll see the bathroom Here And someone just asked is the lower rod in the wardrobe removable. Yes, gotcha And so we just show the bathroom and someone asked are you able to provide measurements? And yes, we are so just let us know what you want us to measure and we'll be sure to tell you So I just asked could you show one of the rooms that has only one two-person bedroom with a living space and a bathroom? Um, I believe these are the only two rooms that we're going to be showing right chris fair Yeah, today it is just very camp in here. Yeah, um, what was that configuration and it was Uh, a room one two-person bedroom with a living space and a bathroom Okay, actually we have one one for work. Okay, so we will be able to show it Okay, gotcha We can go see that quickly and people asking dimensions of the furniture We can get that measure up too since the furniture is the same Here we go just for you. All right, so Here is um The two person bedroom Just showing what this is like The furniture bathroom is about the same size and then they do have still have the vanities Gotcha And someone just asked a dimension question with the furniture. What are the dimensions of the drawers in the desk? So I'm guessing This right here One foot two Gotcha, and then could you measure that bottom one two since it looks a little bit different as well? So it's going to be the same length uh and this Just see what the height is And then after this I have some questions for uh for a series to answer All right. Awesome. Thank you hope So one question we had was How many people can help during move-in? Can one of you all explain how that process works? What do you say I can't can't help how many people can't Oh, how many people can come help uh during move-in you can bring as many as you can in your car Uh safely Um, I know in previous years when we had in the middle of covid you really needed two at a time But right now there's no restrictions on how people can come out move in But you only get two vehicles And your parking pass is only going to work for 30 minutes once you get here And we are very strict on that one So you can't just like go and come back and just drop off You won't be let back into the parking lot So you're very strategic with those two vehicles and showing that that you're a rival time But you can bring as many people as you want in at the moment Don't you to keep in mind too is that you can't like attach a trailer to your car Or we won't let any new halls into the parking lot either. So Just remember that when you try to show up with one because we won't let you know Shameless plug um follow up you are papal hill on instagram We're doing a little series right now. It's just tips for move-in days from our arrays Don't move in a couple of times. So if you don't already call the people on instagram You can definitely do that get some advice around move-in day Gotcha and then this wasn't a question in the chat But kind of one that I had so there's uh, there's several different types of suites, right? How can you find like what suite you have? So that'll be where you contracted and your housing portal and on your housing contract I'm gonna show you exactly what you have and what you signed up for And then if you go out go to the urc housing webpage and you go to the halls Under floor plans will have the little appendix is really quick on the different type of suite that you've selected All the amenities are going to be the same there like in terms of furniture So yes, everyone will have a desk. Yes, everyone will have a dresser board or things like that Just all the floor plans will be on there. Gotcha. Awesome. Thanks y'all All right We had another question between the distance between the beds by the window. What is the distance? So it really varies for each room and I think this was asked when we were in the main room earlier So we may want to go back to that one since that's the most typical one Okay, thank you. Yeah, let's let's go ahead and do that Yeah, all right, let me see what other questions we have in the meantime. Are any of the drawers able to be locked? Uh, if you bring your own lock you can lock them There's one on the desk and then one on the wardrobe. Gotcha. Perfect Oh, perfect Four foot nine, okay And like we said y'all this is going to vary for you just because there's 13 different types of suites We can't get measurements for all of those but we'll we'll be probably are we focusing on this room since it's the most similar If you all the distances are like the size of the beds are the same So if you take the sizes of the beds and then subtract that from the room that can also Yeah Okay, and then Next question, um, I think I think we're all up to date on those questions But in the meantime, hope would you rather talk about um a week or pick one? Let's talk about a week. Yes. Yeah A week is uh takes place the week before classes start here And right after move in and basically it's a week where you get to experience um traditions of the university traditions of Fayetteville and just kind of gets to transition and Small transition before classes start into like everyday life college and what it means to like be a razorback fan Uh, they have really cool We host really cool programs here We have things like the taste of Fayetteville where they have a bunch of vendors from the area Come and like give people samples of their food might be able to find like a new favorite like ice cream spot or Night out spot by that that's always really popular and really fun They have things such as chocolate wasted, which is like an advocacy thing. It's a little dance party. They also get about Hence the name a lot of like different sweets chocolate And they also do this really cool thing where they go down to the stadium and they teach you All of the different hot calls that we do at games and just like different traditions of the school So you can be a proper razorback fan of games and they host so much more there will be a calendar posted on your doors With events and times and our race will also tell you what's all going on for the week But I haven't recommended checking it out. Yeah, sounds like a good time to No, do things with your friends and get to know a lot of people So we have several more questions coming in the next one is can we see the towel racks in the bathroom again, please? Yeah, let's go see that So here are the towel racks there for for each uh, each resident in the room And those are built into the wall so they can't can't be removed Next question is the dimensions of this bedroom So here let me get let me get out of your way because you can do it do it across from there 11 by 8 11 by a link and then Maybe if you put it up here and then aim for the window or a little past the window 13 by 7 So 13 by uh 13 7 inches uh length and then 11 8 inches width Then the height is 9 by 2 9 uh 9 feet 2 inches and then they're requesting dimensions of the desk 2 by 2 2 by 2 and then Can you I can hold that paper if you want yeah 4 foot 4 feet long and then you could probably put it at the top right here to see how tall it is Or a rather right here so you can see the total length to the desk is 2 put 3 and then the length to the floor Total height is 4 for 9 4 for 9. Okay, perfect All right, I'll keep that these questions coming. Can the black bar be lowered on the bed? So these bars are called stabilizer bars They're there because these beds can lock pretty high and just a safety measure We ask um If the bar is at the top of it towards the lower end of your bed's locked at lower And then if it is locked it to the top Locked it lower. These do remove but we ask you to put them back. Yeah Yeah, and they can be uh removed with a mallet that you can check up on the front desk Will attention rod fit in the window frame in front of the blinds? Um, it will if you can find one. Yeah Um, I've seen people do that before where they use a tension rod and I've also seen people where they put like um The larger command hooks and get a curtain rod and put it on top of that like above it Gotcha Okay, um, and then I have a question Or whatever is one of our series in here Yeah, so um, do you know what furniture? Oh, we got all three perfect Do you uh, do you know what furniture comes in a three person suite? Is it any different from the standard furniture? Nope all the furniture will be the same And actually if you go online and you get the list of amenities on the housing website, um, and all we listed right there Okay, perfect Gotcha All right next question. What is the common slash average height to loft a bed? It's a range of people sometimes loft them all the way to the top I think it depends what you want to fit in your room and what you want to bring um A lot of people like to put their desk underneath their beds to free up a little bit more space And if you do that, usually people do loft it to the highest height but um Also people keep them just this normal height that we Have them lofted at the end of the year and also when they move in They'll often sometimes to about here like about four foot off the ground. Yeah, it's kind of very it depends How much stuff you have and how you feel about it Could you uh, take the uh, the measure and see like the tallest height right here? I've got it right here Oh, there we go. Um, this is this is actually very very Changeable you can go from three to 71 inches three to 71 inches So almost almost six feet and each of the uh, the little wedges and I can show you here Yeah, three inch intervals for the wedge So you have a lot of flexibility when it comes to the bed frame Next question is dimensions of the wardrobe All right Yeah, let's see if we if we have it because it's a it's a little little tall. Um Yeah I'm guessing like like eight. Well, maybe seven feet The wardrobe is 81 inches tall 81 inches tall 24 inches wide 35 inches long 24 inches wide and what was the last one? 34 81 heights width is 24 length is 35 Gotcha All right If you loft the bed all the way, do you know how much room between the mattress and the ceiling? So I guess what would what so we calculated out for the height. It was a nine 71 inches is the height of the beds and then the mattress We have the height of the room because we're making the difference between the two. Yeah Uh, we don't can you measure the height of the floor again? Or uh, put it on the floor I mean I put two tonight I put two So how many how many inches is that nine? That's 90 97 minus seven So 97 minus wait, is that right 12 times nine 12 times nine because the number of inches Just plus whatever it was nine nine feet. What nine foot two nine foot two nine times 12 Plus two would be the number of inches Okay, what is that?  I won't I won't shame you the differences on the fly Oh, well, we're still you could just do that. Well, so if you have your bed left at the highest height That leaves three foot two and then the bed Mattress width is I believe three inches So you basically have to 11 to the ceiling got you well enough room that you won't be like hitting that Yeah, make sure you're not like super tall though, you know All right, so what does storage area look like in the sink area? So let's go to the sink All right, so you have these two cabinets down here open up Big open space and then you have six drawers. They're all the same length all the same size Gotcha All right Width from door to wall. Well two desks fit on that wall Yeah, so I um, I don't think you're gonna be able to fit two desks here Is four foot long. Yeah, so you're gonna miss it by a foot, right? Our theories are saying you can but it's super tight Oh, gotcha Okay, technically possible, but not advised What are the dimensions of the couch and the loft suites? Do we have those are we going to have those right now? We can go back to the loft and second and get those. Yeah, let me see if we're up today on these other questions Let me grab the the other Yeah measurement tool and I'll be right back in the meantime. Do you recommend bringing a broom or small vacuum? Yes, yeah, that's what I figured Just something. Yeah Gotcha, don't really need both, but definitely more on the other Um question coming in so no common room furniture in a room with three beds in one room Nope, perfect. Gotcha What is the depth of the mattress? I think you said it was three inches. I want to say it's about three inches We can measure it real quick. Yeah Like six inches Six inches. Okay. Gotcha All right If both desks are at the foot of the bed Is there enough room to place wardrobe side by side? Not before but again Be careful how you range the rooms otherwise you're going to have like very narrow spaces because the desks Are quite as you could tell a bit wider than the bed to come with the edge of the bed. They're going to be Yeah, yeah, gotcha. All right, so let's go into the living room because the next question we have is what size couch fits in the sitting area so I figure we can just measure that and uh, let's see Since measuring this So eight foot seven inches long and then how about we uh, from here to there? Yeah Yeah, you can just put it from there to the wall Uh five foot ten five foot ten. Gotcha So That's all the questions we have for now But in the meantime for our series do you all have any advice words of wisdom for for a freshman coming in? Anyone want to start? Yeah Especially when you're in a suite because I mean there are two doors that you have to get through versus just the one And it like I said, it sounds ridiculous, but it can be really difficult to push yourself to actually go out and explore campus and meet new people but Do it in a week and welcome me because they're gonna be kind of the two Easiest times for you to do that because there's so much going on and people from all over campus are Out and about and enjoying the events like it's never the kind of thing where you have to be like Oh, am I gonna show up at this thing and nobody's gonna be there?  So underpack Amazon's your friend a front desk People would love to help you with those packages and everything like that But plan ahead underpacking it'd be fine. Awesome. I think if you don't use it at home You're definitely not going to use it here. So just keep that in mind as you're packing But try to give you all unique advice that these two haven't already given you I think like get to know the housing staff so like get to know us, get to know your RAs For something that you want to see in our hall like talk to your RA and we can If we can't make it happen, maybe we can make something else happen Like if you want to have a paint line, let's talk to our RA about that So if you're for board or you have a good idea, like don't just let that idea kind of fill out Like definitely go talk to somebody and see if we can make it work Gotcha. Thank you all for the advice. We're going to move on to our next questions Dimensions for the couch is 81 inches long and is 32 inches deep and 31 inches high. Gotcha. All right. Thank you Christopher So next question Someone asked is the suite question mark? So I don't know if that was a typo But if you have a question feel free to ask it again Next thing is couch in a sitting area for three beds. Sorry if you answered before So we haven't seen a three bed three bedroom, but would it be Around this or just go to the housing website to see these niches Just go to the housing website, but it's around this size Pretty much they're actually one of our rare suites. They're not readily available right now Especially when we have camps and all these maples We just don't back just to all of our suite styles right now But they're all very similar The common spaces this can be laid out a little bit differently a little longer than it is wide But it's all super similar. Gotcha All right, well, that's we're all up to date on the questions Did you want to talk about pick one or does any of our series want to talk about pick one or I could do it if no one wants to So pick one is this initiative through the university that started last year That before you arrive on campus We want y'all to go and pick one student organization that you're interested in and want to attend During a week, which is the welcome week that you all probably heard a million things about and seen your emails or anything like that Those organizations are going to have a meeting for you to go and just Figure out like am I actually interested in this club or not? And during that week and we do people you'll see that organization You can decide if I hate it or like this sounds really fun Um, and so that's our initiative. We know it can be really hard to get on campus So we try to set up these meetings to go meet all these new people all at once You're not the only one showing up to that meeting who's never been there before That's the idea everyone there will probably be new except for the club officers Um, we do shamelessly plug our few housing ones like leahogs Leahogs is a really fun leadership program on campus When you hear leadership and probably think that's really boring in the classroom Now we're trying each other with the community planning things If you ever interested in like legislation r.i.c. Things like that gets involved with all legislation You can plan those programs in the building. I know our leahogs last year They plan different programs. We did candy grants for valentine's day. We hung up We made bird houses hung them up around the community Previous years they've gone treks crystal bridges everything like that and we'll give you money to do what you want to do Is there like kana said talk to us if there's a program y'all want to do If y'all want to have a superbowl party talk to us if y'all want to have a very random Mario like Mario party night cool Let us know like we're happy to do all those things and you can involve through leahogs Also, if you wanted to ever interested about being an r.a. That's a really good way to get to know some housing staff I'm going to know more about housing in the university. That's honestly getting involved It's going to be every monday night at six and if you're in the maples we actually maples read So we actually have a tuesday night option for you as well So you can still do fraternity swirly life and still be involved in leahogs There's the ability to do both. So that's our shameless plug for leahogs as of your pick one. Awesome. Thank you Yes, I do want to say about the pick one too is that if you sign up for something now because you think it's interesting You're not signing your life away. You don't have to go back if you don't like it So just it's really low commitment like matt said it's literally just a way for you to learn about something with other people Who also have no idea what it is It's also on hogsink, which you've never heard about hogsink yet You didn't go to orientation session session with lezzie parker pregnancy is such a heightening for that The hogsink is where we keep all of our events on campus Everyone has access to with the student account. We do random giveaways and emails on there that are active We can see who's actively send out haul information It's where you're going to find out everything going on not only in your building but on campus So if you want to find out about the annual golf tournament that maple hill hosts That's where you're going to find out about it. If you want to hear about the lights at maples That's where you're going to see it If you want to hear about like the palm fruit palm fruit island getaway down there that you can go to That's where you're going to see it. So all of these things that are happening on campus That is your go-to spot To see all the fun stuff that's happening in this community and honestly there's a ton I think on average we're doing a hundred plus events on campus a month So I promise you there's something going on every day. I'll get to this look on hogsink and you'll find it Gotcha. Kaleen did you have something to say before Talia swooped in? I'm just going to say like going back to pick one obviously we'd love to feel safe with housing for lead hogs rc But even if you don't choose a housing pick one just pick one If you're interested in like Talia and Matt both said Getting all of you out of your room pick one isn't an easy way to do it But people like Talia said that are just as kind of new as you are so if you don't pick housing just To find something that makes sure they're happy. Yeah pick one. Gotcha All right. I have a really tough question for y'all. Where do we put our trash? Oh, that's easy So in the comments, they are in the main elevator lot of each floor. There's going to be a trash chute All of your cardboard don't need to get brought down to the first floor. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. I can't ask Can't assess enough Please bring your cardboard down to the first floor. You'll meet your isa staff. There are cleaning staff They're the sweetest human beings And they get here at five six a.m. Every day to start cleaning these buildings And making sure that's meeting the standards we want to be met for y'all If y'all can do them the favor of just bringing that cardboard down to the first floor You'll make their lives so much easier. Otherwise they're spending hours in these three buildings bringing cardboard down Bring your trash. They bring your cardboard down And that would be so much appreciated. It's super easy as you're going to the elevator to go to class It's right there next to it. We'll show you all there in your floor meetings as well where it is And also if we do that right We don't have to think about any of the community find which sometimes we unfortunately run into when floors repeatedly Sparkled the trash disposal So it's right down the community. Uh lobby right there right by the elevators and it's super easy Gotcha Maple cells are not um and by the elevators actually at the end of the hallways and you know the study rooms Like we saw earlier So to where it may well east and less for the center um maple cells are on the end of each side of the hallway Gotcha, thank y'all Now I just want to mention about the ISA real quick um because I know that when I have done some tours over the summer I have gotten this question, but ISA will not come to rooms and clean. They're only to be able to clean the common areas So that's why you need that broom and vacuum. Mm-hmm. Gotcha So another question. Do you recommend individual shower catties for each rooming? Or is there a room in the shower for a shared shelf and rack? I definitely recommend bringing Something to like store something in the shower because there is like a little little space I can probably hold like one or two bottles of something But I do recommend either bring something that attaches to the shower like a shower head or um one of the tension rods that have different like baskets Gotcha, we can look in the shower really quick again See what's like. So I don't think we put inside. So this is what the shower shower looks like Mm-hmm. Gotcha. So it could be a little crowded with though with all the all the roommates All right So it looks like we're All up to date on the questions. So we'll give it a little bit more But um for our series any favorite any favorite memories of maples any favorite programs anything like that? Um, my favorite program is an initiative started a couple years ago. Um, it's called the lights at Naples Um, it's become a kind of a campus staple now We're starting in the first Sunday back from Thanksgiving break The all these lights in the maples courtyard and leading the maples are actually we live up with holiday lights Um, we turn those on every night in the winter on a couple nights out of the year We'll also have fire pits set up out there. We'll do s'mores. We'll do really fun things like that It's honestly so pretty. Um, and it's just a really great time people from all across the campus We'll come we open up to the community we get a lot of families that come through Um, that's to see it's a really nice light tour Um, that the maples team is going to be running this year and making it happen and honestly That's one of my favorite things that we've seen here. It's a very unique thing Gotcha for me, I I'm actually new to the community. I used to be in hope in the future, but uh, one of my heroes that I Came over here for was breath feast, which is like late night breakfast vibes pancakes faking eggs all of that Um, it was just really fun really chilly You gotta stop by and grab some food and then hang out and chat with people or you should take a tour Gotcha Killian Mine is not a standard program or do every year, but this past year we have a lot of snow days And that's probably my favorite memory of just um, there's a little like a lawn and maple south and we call it the maple south on our very original People like sled down the lawn Like the hill to the lawn and just like had there's a snowball fight The series for west kind of put together and so just like nobody has class next day So there's not like the stress of school and people could just have fun and like do their Typical snow activities probably one of my favorite things Definitely a lot of impromptu sledding. Yeah also famous club All three of us series have dogs and all three of our dogs love meeting people So when you get here, you're missing your dogs at home your pet at home You see us out. Please come say hi to us. Like that's how we love talking to y'all You know y'all want to the dogs more than us. Um, but from tacos there would be a lot of the programs So if you're missing that missing your dogs back home or as the pet in general We need someone to unconditionally love you. Um, that would be our dogs and us Our dogs will love you. Um, they want to say hi to all of y'all I think they changed my answer. My favorite memory is now. Um, my residence from last year saying goodbye to my dog on move out day All right, well We had four questions left and then I think we can start bringing into a close. Um, can we bring? Do we bring a shower curtain? There's already shower curtains in here, but you could probably bring your own, right?  Oh, gotcha. Um, you can do either But you can't like throw away the shower curtain that we provide you That has to be here at the end of the year. Gotcha. And then someone has to show the shower space again And so this is what it looks like and then we had another question. We had two questions about the uh, two, the two bedroom, um, room that we saw earlier So I figured we can go over there and in there since we've already seen it since two people were asking Yeah, I think so. Do you think we can end in the uh, in that two person suite? So we're back in 419? All right, and then just show it around really quickly All right, and everyone be sure to thank Hope for giving us the lovely tour And yeah, and this will be put on our youtube channel and on the The pages of the residence halls for you to see again But yeah, hope you can go ahead and sign us out. Thanks again. Do we have um, no The only question was just showing the room itself. Um, so yeah, that's it. You can go ahead and sign us out Guys here today I will probably see some of you guys over the school year since I'll be in R.A. Nipple West again And I hope you guys have enjoyed our series summer and I'll see you doing it out. Thank you


The narcissist sees you as a toy. They just see you as something to play with. They treat you as a source of pleasure or amusement, rather than with due seriousness. They don't take you seriously. It's just a game to them. It's just something that they engage in for amusement or fun. They're not thinking about anything long term. They don't consider the consequences of their actions. They don't experience an emotional attachment. They see you as a toy, something to play with, and when they break the toy it will get bored. They just go looking for another one, because they were never loyal or committed to you. It was just a game. It was just something temporary. It had to make you believe that it was something real. To keep you around, the narcissist can only ever see you as a toy, as an object that exists to meet their needs. They are self-absorbed and lack empathy. They cannot experience a deep emotional connection, but they can simulate love, can trick themselves into believing that they're experiencing something real.  It is just a game, and they will only ever see you as a toy. They will never see you as anything more. They don't take you seriously, because they feel that no one takes them seriously. They feel like life is unfair for them, because they have a strong sense of entitlement. They expect privileges and special treatment, and because the world doesn't reflect their delusional sense of grandiosity, they have to project these feelings of how they feel that the world treats them, onto you. They feel small, so they try to make you feel the same way. Then they can feel bigger and better, at your expense. The narcissist sees you as a toy, and that's never going to change. They're never going to treat you with any respect. They're never going to take your life seriously. While their safety and security is very important to them, they do not care about how their actions affect you. They do not care about the damage and destruction they cause to you. They care about it themselves, and how they can use you to make their own needs. Regardless of how it affects you. And that's why it's so easy for them to leave you, even when you might need them the most. Because they never cared about you. They only ever saw you as something to play with. They're like children. They get bored very easily. People are their toys, and they take no responsibility for what they do to you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video originated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon for free for notifications for my future videos. Check out the new Narc Survivor website at www.narcsurvivor.co.uk where you can read my blog posts, book coaching sessions and join our support forum. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


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Now Locke's the excerpt from Locke here examines slightly different question than we've seen say with Aristotle or Epicurus. Now with Locke he's not concerned so much with you know what is the good life or how or you know what kind of character should a person develop or what kind of person should you be what kind of sort of thing should you be. Rather Locke is concerned with questions rather like what do you have the right to do? What can you do? What is a permissible act and action? And he doesn't really focus much on the character of a person and instead he's asking this question you what do you have the right to do and what you have the right to do is you know starts with the state of nature and which follows the law of nature and after that you can enter you know what we've kind of talked about before as the social contract and he gives reasons why you should want to enter into the social contract. I mean the state of nature again now you know despite the fact I'm walking amongst the trees Locke doesn't mean that the state of nature the sense of you know living out the woods right like Hobbes what Locke is talking about is you know the the state that we're in absent a political state or you know rather the political state that we're in when there isn't any political any other kind of government involved. This is our our our natural state in the sense that this is what we are according to our nature according to our nature. So but Locke's version of the state of nature is pretty different from Hobbes now I'll let you go back and review the video for Hobbes if you'd like or review the text Hobbes had a much more you know free-for-all version of the state of nature Locke's different and the state of nature you know both Locke and Hobbes are going to say we're both we're equal everyone's equal to each other and what Hobbes is talking about this equality has to deal with like physical capacities and in a sense that no one person can just by sheer force of will and domination just overpower everyone else. Well Locke I'm sure is going to agree with that but in addition to that he's going to say we have equal moral worth right no one person is more important than another. No one person's life is worth more than another's right. So now we have equal moral worth in addition to you know capacities. Now since you know one person is any more important more important than another in this state of nature we are free to do what we want. Every person is just as important as every other person which means every person is just as sovereign as any other person. You have the right to do whatever you want and you don't have to ask for permission. You can dispose of yourself and your possessions how you see fit.  If you want to decorate your tree and little yellow flowers and you know spray skunk spray around the place you could do that right that you don't have to ask people's permission to do that. You may dispose of yourself any positions as you see fit within the law of nature. Now both Hobbes and Locke had a law of nature remember Hobbes thought that the law of nature was to preserve your life and you know to avoid not only it's the end of it but also avoid any threats and for this reason you're supposed to enter into the state. For Locke there is a law of nature and it's a law according to your human nature is the idea. So you in the state of nature you may act you may do as you please that is your freedom that is your freedom but you may act as you please within the law of your nature. I must abide by the law of nature. What does that mean? Well he's already said I've got freedoms right. I've got freedom to dispose of myself and my possessions as I please. I don't have to ask anybody's permission for what I want to do with my myself or my things but I still have limits. I may not destroy myself. I'm not allowed to just simply destroy myself. That much Locke and Hobbes have in common. I have since I'm morally worthwhile right according to my nature I'm morally worthwhile I may not just simply destroy myself and as far as my possessions I can't just simply destroy my possessions either. I can't just simply you know I can't just take my hat and light it on fire for no reason. If I'm gonna destroy my hat it has to be for a good purpose and that you know that purpose that use of it has to exceed you know the value of its continued existence. So my hat's really great for covering my head and keeping keeping the shade and keeping the sun out of my eyes. So if I'm going to destroy my hat it's got to somehow serve that purpose better. So in the law of nature I can't destroy myself. I can't simply just wantonly destroy my property. Now in addition to that whatever I choose to do with myself or my property I can't interfere with other people's use of themselves and their property. So I can't want to destroy my neighbor's property as well. I also can't just simply take it. I can't use my property to inhibit my neighbor's freedom. Or rather not even just my neighbor everybody else. So it's kind of a hefty responsibility. I can do what I want but I can't interfere with other people and I can't just simply wantonly destroy things. Well depending on your perspective you might think what law has to say is pretty good so far. I mean after all hey I can do what I want and since there isn't a political state you know I know there's this law of nature but you know who's going to enforce it right?  That cow looks good.  Well if he does something like that Locke says you're deciding to live by a different law than the law of nature which is really this law of reason is what he's going to call her law of reason. We all have a will. We all make decisions. We are we are all equally valuable. So since we are all equally valuable we make these decisions we shouldn't interfere with it with other people's decisions. They want to live their way their life the way they wanted then yeah we should let them do that. And if you decide to interfere with other people's lives in this way well you're living by a different law. I mean you're living by some kind of law that you are now more important than everybody else. All right well you can try to do that. I suppose that's your choice.  Well if that happens you know they may not you know you might say there's no police but everybody in the state of nature is a sovereign as anybody else. That means not that there aren't any police. That means that everybody is the police and everybody has the right to punish you. Everybody has the right to punish you. And you know maybe to do it again and again. You should be punished if you decide to live by this wild law wild tyrannical law of yours.  You know people are going to gang up and and punish you for it. Now punishment for law serves two purposes. To you know restrain the offender and to you know prevent the offender from wanting to do it again. So it gives the offender good reason not to not to subvert the law of nature again.  The second thing a person may be punished for is reparation. So if I go steal that guy's cow well then I got to pay it back right and punishing me for that for not only the cow but you know the trauma of stealing it and maybe I destroyed some property taking the cow and things like that. Reparations for taking the cow must also be paid. Now law is very clear right reparations can only be given only paid back to the one who was at a loss. That you know that's the only person that may take reparations not you know everybody else can't just take a cow. However everybody can punish for the purpose of preventing you know convincing the offender not to do this again. Everybody can punish you know to give the offender what they deserve. They deserve to be punished for their crimes because they decided to live as a tyrant. And these these are the two reasons for these are the two reasons that the two permissibility behind punishment. And again since we're in the law of nature it's not that there aren't any police it's that everybody is the police. Now so far as I've been in the state of nature I've been kind of lucky. I haven't had to enter into the state of war. Now state of war is a state where I'm an enemy of something somebody else and it's a state where my life is threatened by somebody else. Somebody else is trying to take over my sovereignty sometimes trying to either destroy my life or take away what I've been working for. Trying to take away my choices. And for luck trying to take away somebody's choices is as bad as trying to take away their life. And when that happens when when somebody's doing that they enter the state of war and when they enter the state of war you may kill that person. The punishment can be death. In the state of war the punishment can be death.  You have to kill them. So that part you may not find too distressing too alarming. But here's something else that luck adds on to us. By the way a thief enters into a state of war with you. If a thief is stealing your property you may kill them. You don't have to but you may kill them. They are threatening your life in the sense now even though they may not have harmed you. Something he says even though they may not harm you. They're threatening your life in the sense that they are threatening your choices. They're threatening your ability to live your life. Because imagine this right you're trying to you're trying to survive so you are growing your food and you're raising your cows and you're trying to make a living and then somebody comes along and steals away your living. They are stealing away your life. Well for luck that's just as bad as trying to actually physically end it. So thieves for luck enter into a state of war and after entering into a state of war if they're threatening your sovereignty you can kill them. I don't know if you've noticed but we got a pretty wonderful world around here. Beautiful and there's lots to have right. Lots of food lots of resources to use. Now for luck all of this has been given to all of us. It hasn't been given to just one person remember this is a state of nature. Every person is just as important as every other person. All of this has been given to all of us. It's to be held by us in common. It was given for our good our well-being. Okay that's great I mean we like to hear this. But you know since it's good for you I mean it's here for all of us we should be able to use it. That's the idea we should be able to use what's been given to us for our own good. But how do I do this when I've got other people who also want to use all of this right because it's been given to all of us to come. So even though it's given to all of us in common which it might be another way saying it belongs to all of us and it belongs to all of us. We're responsible for all of this. Yeah even though it's you know for all of us in common it belongs to all of us there still has to be a way that I can take some of it to use it for myself. I mean if it's good for all of us so I shouldn't take for anybody else when we're all gonna you know suffer and die. That's not gonna work. So that has to be some way that I can acquire property is the idea. So to do this Locke says like look you know if there is once there's you know all of this is for all of us that's true right all of this is all of this is true. But I am for me only right I am I belong to myself only nobody else owns me and and I can't consequently one of things gotta say not in here but other places I can't sell myself to somebody else. I am for me only but what that also means is that what I work what I do with my labor is also mine. So if I work for it if I acquire something from what's good out here that's something that's mine. So I can walk around here into these woods and I can pick up acorns to eat and I can pick up fruit to eat and there are there are animals in these woods so I can go out and I can hunt the animal and since I'm the one that hunted the animal and and using it for food well then that's mine because I belong to me I am my own property and my labor is also mine. So this is how I'm supposed to acquire from the world around me from what's good it's all all this is for all of us but I can go out and acquire what's for all of us through my labor. We got cactus that provides nutrition also provides water got this tree here if it ever bears fruit I can take fruit from the tree got some grasses I've got some dead dead wood around here I can pick up a dead wood and acquire that. So if I'm acquiring this I'm mixing with my labor well it becomes mine. Now here's a question can I just get whatever I want to just keep it can I hoard it all to myself? Well I was gonna say no you can't you can take what you need sure you can take what you can use okay but you can't just simply take whatever you want remember all of this is for all of us so if you take something and you don't use it it spoils it's ruined if you if you take something and you never use it you just kind of push it away and you know store it someplace or nobody can find it it can't be used all of this is for all of us well that means I can't just simply destroy all of this I can't let it go to waste other people have to have the opportunity to take what they need as a part of their own choices as a part of their own lives and their own will they have to be able to take what they need in order to make it theirs. So I could take what I want it becomes mine if I mix my labor with that if I actually use it it's a product of my decision and my action it's physically within my possession okay I can do that but I can't just take everything and I can't just you know hoard it all and stuff it off away I have to give other people the opportunity to live their own lives as well. So that works for you know like things items okay well what about the land all right can I just say you know what wherever I see I own this land well no right same for the same reason yeah other people have all this is for all of us in common it's not just for me it's for all of us in common well that means that if I take some land and you suppose I I take this little area here I make this area here for my crops my food my animals my shelter right I'm gonna build a nice little cabin right over there fence it off a little bit to enclose some animals I can do that I mix up my labor I can do that but I have to leave enough for everybody else or I have to give something as good as for everybody else so suppose I section off a lot of land to raise a bunch of crops all right I'm using that land for the crops well if if I'm doing that I have to give to other people like the excess of those crops have to give as good as that land meaning right they're using the land to grow the crops meaning I have to give them that those crops if I'm gonna take a whole bunch of land for crops have to make sure people can eat with them so if I take land I have to leave enough everybody else or as good or give as good as the land for everybody else you know I can take suppose I want land for you know hiking right I want to enjoy nature well if I do that I have to leave as much for everybody else or give as good right whatever good I'm taking from that land that enjoyment of it I have to give as good for other people so I have you know so different you know luck has a different idea of the state of nature than hops house is going to say you do whatever you want to preserve your life whatever and everybody else could do that to well Locke says yeah I mean you can live your life as you want but you have to live that life with the law of nature that means you have to respect other people's lives you have to respect not only the fact that they're living but their choices as well I can live as I want but I can't interfere with other people that means in terms of property I can take what I want what I can use right just but I can't let us spoil because I'm an effect stealing it for somebody else because all this is for everybody's good and I could take land as I want but I have to leave it leave as have to leave as much for everybody else or give as good as for everybody else