Four years of opening Legend of Blue Eyes. From the disappointment of pseudo-heavy packs, Trubin, another rare. Come on, come on, give us a secret. To the miracle last pack of my first box. Oh! Random error packs. And insane moments. That's what we just talked about. Dark Manchester! Please. I hit your camera? Oh my gosh. Oh, I can't believe. All of these openings were building blocks to one goal. Pulling the first edition of Blue Eyes White Dragon. All right, what is up, everybody? We have a first edition Legend of Blue Eyes glossy box to be open today. We already opened one of these three months ago. When we opened the LOB through AST, we got super lucky to be able to do that. And now we get to open another one. We didn't get the Blue Eyes last time. We've never gotten the Blue Eyes before. So I think today is the day. I'm super pumped. I'm super excited. Let's do this, guys. First day, let's break right into the box. Here we go. Oh, this is gonna hurt. Oh, it's gonna hurt every time. It hurts a little bit. We're breaking into the box, everybody. Gotta be careful. There we go. Oh, that's it. It's been cut. It's been cut. The Blue Eyes White Dragon. Maybe it's in there. The box is open. Is the Blue Eyes in there? This is a big moment. We find out, is there anything in this box? Feels pretty good on the wrapping. The wrapping feels pretty good. Usually it feels a little awkward if the wrapping is wrong or something. Feels normal. Shuffle these things up. 24 booster packs of Legend of Blue Eyes. So far what I'm seeing, it's looking pretty legit. You know, first edition on there. I'm not seeing any signs of like reseal or anything. Let's do the first auction. They're all gonna be one minute long, I think. Because you know, in this case, it's a big box, right? You know, we're not gonna mess around. Let's do a one minute auction. All right, Slater 69 with the first pack. First edition, Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon. Here we go, guys. L.O.B. First-Ed. Let's do this. We are looking for, I mean, really any foil gradeable 10 is gonna be a great pull. But obviously the Ultras are what's gonna make you the big, big bucks when terms of good pulls. So we're gonna do four for the back. We're gonna be super careful with these because even the commons can be worth 50 to 100 bucks. The rarest can be the pot of Greed's worth like 800 bucks last I saw on a PSA 10. So a lot of value in all these cards. Skull Redbird, that looks pretty centered. That's nice. I would recommend if you do get one of these packs and you spend a lot of money, think about grading the centered ones because they can make some of your money back. So think about that. We have King Fog. We have Missouri Zame. We have Yame. Oh, what a great start to our first pack. Missouri Zame, Yame, we got Mountain. We have a legendary sword. Are we gonna get a first pack magic? Dark King of the Abyss. So these cards are looking pretty clean so far. We have Fiend Reflection number two. Also pretty good. Here is the next card. That could be a foil. Here we go. Okay, it's a fusion. Usually not great if it's a fusion. I think Flame Swordsman's our only chance. Okay, Dark Fire Dragon. So just a rare. Dark Fire Dragon I think is pretty decent if you do get a PSA 10. Centering looks good. Honestly, all the cards look centered. So I remember we did an LLB box break before and somebody said, hey, you recommended I grade some. No, it might've been Metal Raiders. Great, some of my comments and I did and I doubled my money. So keep that in mind. If you just spend 900 bucks or you don't get, you don't feel like you don't get anything, make sure you grade these. Especially these that look really centered and really, really clean. So I think you could get a lot of 10s, potentially make your money back down the road. Hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I'll be giving away a 25th anniversary booster box of Legend of Blue Eyes. Just like the video, be subscribed to our notifications. Let me know down below what you think about this opening. I'm sure you have a lot of thoughts. All right, left pack. Let's get to it. Let's see, first edition, L.O.B. We're gonna be very careful because I'm gonna keep the pack nice as well because, you know, it's first edition pack. Pretty cool stuff. These are opening really nicely though. Really nicely. I like that. That is always a good sign. One, two, three, four. We really get our first foil out of this box. Gotta be very, very careful. We have M Warrior number two, numero dos, also known as. We have the Trial of Hell. That's a really good common because it was changed to Trial of Nightmare later. There's an unlimited print of this. This is just super rare. Then everything after that was Trial of Nightmare. We have Dissolve Rock. We've got a Wasteland. Beautiful. A Forest. Man, I love the green. I say this every time. The green on these first editions and originals are beautiful on the magic cards. Skull Serven, that's a good common as well. This is a really good pack so far. Green Phantom King, even without a good pull. If we get a good pull, it's insane. If we get Pot of Greed Rare, that'd be good as well. Totsumi John. I thought it was a Celtic Guardian for a second. Okay, then that's 14, that's well. Okay, all right. It's an effect monster, which means it could be a Maneater Bug. Could be, it's probably Reaper of the Cards if I had to guess. It could be our Ninja. Let's see. Oh, it's a Hainane. I thought it was a Maneater with those stats. 450, Hainane, I forgot about you. Pretty decent rare as well. Cintering has looked incredible for, oh okay, some of the comments were not great, but Cintering has been pretty good so far. Ian, sorry you didn't get anything. I really wanted you to pull something, but good luck grading these. Make sure you grade the centered ones. That'll definitely help. TCGCAN, thank you for the purchase. All right, left pack. So are we going all the way down the left right now? Okay, first edition. Eventually there's gotta be a foil, right? Retro Baloney, third pack. Number five, it's really our third pack. Here we go, first edition glossy pack. Oh my goodness, this is gonna be intense. Can we pull our first foil of the day, guys? First foil, one, two, three, four. We gotta get something. Let's get, if we don't get one, I really wanna get a pot of green in this box because we didn't get one last, or did we get, maybe we got one last time. We definitely wanna get one this time. Here we go, Kagamusha of the Flu Flame. Dark energy, we have flame manipulator. Frenzied Panda. Fiend Reflection Numero Dose. Spike Sidra. Mammoth Graveyard, very nice, very awesome. Firegrass, so I think Mammoth Graveyard is probably our best foil so far just because of the anime and stuff. Last card, will it be our first foil of the box? Come on. Aquamador, we are starting it off. Oh, for three, but Aquamador is a decent rare, being a monster card versus some of those fusions, which some of them are good, some of them are not. It's not a bad rare. Aquamador, it's not pot of greed, but auction number six, it's been a slow start. It's been a slow start, but I'm hoping that we can turn around right here on our fourth pack of the box. Let's see what we can do, first edition LOB. Woo, big stuff, big stuff. One, two, three, four. Is this our first foil right here? These cards look super clean on the back, look at that. It looks super clean. Okay, super fang. We have Electro Whip, that's a nice card. A lot of the equips are short prints, some of them are not. I think it's like one of them. I don't know which one it is. You'll have to ask GeziTCG, the master of comments. King Fog, we have Beaver Warrior, classic iconic anime card. We have Dark World Thorns. Okay, the sintering looks pretty good on these so far. Red Medicine, that one might be a little bit off-centered. We have Kurama. I think there should be one more common. Yeah, that's her, the terrible. 1200 is a very popular attack on LOB First Ed. Here we go, give us some luck guys. Let's get something big, first foil. Let's go, first edition. Dark Magician has been pulled. The first foil, BGSmitty11, congrats on the massive. Ultra rare, when I saw that 25 butter, I was like, we just got it. We just got a big one. Ultra rare sintering, how's it look? Slightly off-centered that way. The back of the card, as you guys saw earlier, looked pretty good. Yeah, so if the sintering's not too, too bad, maybe it can seek by a PSA. If it doesn't, you could try CGC or BGS, maybe to get a nine, CGC doesn't do nine fives anymore, do they? BGS to get a nine five, I guess. That is amazing. Let's get this thing in a top loader right now. Okay, amazing pull on pack number four. He picked the correct, was that on the right? Was that on the top the whole time? That was on the top. And if you guys haven't seen my recent video, my recent video where I talked about somebody recently pulled a blue eyes wide dragon, if you guys haven't seen that, the box contained Dark Magician and blue eyes. We just pulled Dark Magician. You know what that can mean. We could pull the blue eyes in this box. LLB first edition, here we go. Let's pull something amazing. Exodia blue eyes. That's what we want. Exodia blue eyes, secret rare, flame swordsman, polymerization, you know, I know those are secrets. It sounded like I was saying those are secrets, but here we go. Man-eater, not man-eater bug, right off the bat. We got removed trap. Steel, Ogrigrado, number one. Monster egg, the Urabi, two mouth, dark ruler, Hino-tama, armored starfish. Okay, we got the good stuff here. Here we go. Give us some luck. Okay, is this, wait, do we have one more? No, this is it. This is the pull. Spirit of the Harp, I thought it was a mystical elf. Do they have the same stats? 802,000? They might actually. Spirit of the Harp, I remember last time I sold rares in PSA 10. Spirit of the Harp was a good one. Things could have changed, but I think it was like a $200 card back then. Can we get a blue eyes? Can we get an Exodia head? They often appear with the Dark Magician. Well, blue eyes has appeared with the Dark Magician. I would say the Exodia often, because when I got my Exodia and Dark Magician, they were from the same box. There was another box on YouTube where that was the case, so it's happened twice. So I think there's a good chance that that could be our other Ultra. Blue eyes happened the other day, so it could be blue eyes, which is exciting. Hopefully it's one of those too, because those are huge. But T-Dragon, we've got a root water. What's up, we were trading? We have Druling Lizard, Sparks. Dark Gray. Come on, baby. Turtle Tigre. Hard armor. The armor is hard. Very interesting name. We have Kumutoko. Guys, here we go. Last card. Let's pull that blue eyes right now. Can we get a foil at all? Let's see. Okay, we got a Fusion Flame Swordsman. Oh, it's a Flame Ghost. Okay, Flame Ghost sintering is not great, but not terrible. A little bit pushed that way. Might have a chance at a PSA 10, so we are now one for six. Seventh pack open right here. Here we go. First edition LOB pack. Can we get another foil? So far, just one. Let's see if we can do it. Keep that pack nice and... And now I was gonna say nice and nice. That doesn't work. One, two, three, four. Okay, how's the back look? Back looks super clean on that. Whatever that last card is. Pot of Greed would be a great rare. Supers with Flame Swordsman, Polymerization, Red Gecky. Here we go, Nemerico. We got a Sogan. Mystical Sheep, Numero Dos. Tripwire Beast. Metabat. Sandstone. Lesser Dragoon. We've got a Masaki Legendary Swordsman. Okay, that is seven cards. It's the next card. Masaki, bless us with another polka monion. Oh, Dragoness the Wicked Knight. Oh my goodness. Oh, another rare. So we are now six out of seven rares, and then one Ultra. Okay, first edition Legend of Blue Eyes, guys. This is pack number eight. Third of the way through the opening. And after this, here we go. Let's do this first edition Legend of Blue Eyes. Come on, let's get that $25,000 Blue Eyes. And you know, for it to be 25K, it has to be a PSA 10. So we want to pull a PSA 10 copy too. That'd be pretty awesome. I'm pulling it at all. It's going to be well worth it. But if it's a PSA 10, somebody gets that. That's going to be amazing. Here we go. Man-eater. Remove Trap. Let's pull something crazy. Silver Grotto. Let's see some nice commons as well. We have Monster Egg. Yorabi. I feel like that's a decent one. It's a cool card. Two-Mouth Dark Ruler. There's the Hollow for Metal Raiders, the twin ended Thunder Dragon. But before it's time, we have Hino-Tama. That one's a little pushed up on the centering. Armored Starfish. We're looking at seven. Okay, here it comes. We've only pulled one foil in seven packs. This has got to be one, right? Here we go. Oh my gosh, Fusionist. So many rares in a row. The end of this box is going to be absolutely insane. This is pack number nine. First edition Legend of Blue Eyes. So far one foil pull, it was an amazing one.  Let's see if we can turn that around. The rares, if we do get one, if we want it to be Pot of Greed, that's a big one. Two, three, four. How's the back look on this card? The foils on the back, I mean not the foils, the back card, so the rares or foils, that's a great start. Have been really nice on the back. Trial of Hell, a really, really good pull. A great common. That's a great start. We have Dissolve Rock. We have Wasteland. Larvis, okay, okay, not that cool. Okay, Skull Sermon. So it looks like Trial of Hell and Skull Sermon are often in the same pack, which is really good because those are both commons, because we did that earlier. We have Renfantum King. We have Hitatsumi Giant. We've got Laser Cannon Armor, which is a short prank, this is not the electro whip. Here we go. Will it be our next foil? Come on, Flame Swords and Supe. Polymerization, Rygeki, Blue Eyes, Exodia, Red Eyes, Coblin's Secret Remedy. Where are the foils in this box? We are now one for nine. One for nine. If we hadn't pulled that Dark Magician, I would be freaking out right now. Yami Pag back in. We're going to put it back in as the last pack, if we have to. If he doesn't purchase it by the end. I guess it is, I guess we should put it in at some point. Unfair box launch. Yeah, I think you guys are right. That is a good point. That is a good point. He's creating value by waiting, waiting to see. Okay, yeah, that's fair. How do I cancel it? Okay, but if it goes through later, let me know. Okay, we're gonna put Yami's Pag back in. I think that's totally fair. You guys make a good point. It came from the right, so put it back on the right. All right, that's a good reason. All right, we'll put it right back there. Let's go. First edition, LOB, Exodia, Blue Eyes. Any foil. Come on, Pot of Greed we'd even take at this point. Let's go. One, two, three, four. Can we get another foil? How's the back look? Pretty clean, maybe a couple of print lines on that one. We have Larvis. We have Basic Insect. Reim Temperatura, Dragon Treasure, Power of Kaishin, Petite Angel, The Furious Sea King, One-Eyed Shield Dragon. Last card. Okay, it's a magic card. Rygeki, Polymerization, Monster Reborn. That's what we're looking at. Okay, not a lot of text. It's good for Rygeki. Polymerization, let's go. An absolutely amazing Super Rare. That's what you want if you get a Super Poly. I mean, it's one of the top three, I would say. It's always a tie between Rygeki, Poly, Flame Swordsman for me. They're all really good. There's some good ones after that, but I really like those three. Cinnaring, slightly pushed up, but in a little bit that way, so maybe a BGS cannon, but because it's both ways, I don't know, PSA could maybe let it through. Looks pretty clean though. So there we go, another foil, guys. All right, first edition pack. Here we go. We've not pulled a blue eyes yet, but we are hoping we can do it. We've already pulled a Dark Magician and a Polymerization. It's been an amazing box so far. We're hoping we can continue that. Back looks pretty clean on that thing. Whatever it is, hopefully it's a blue eyes. We have Witty Phantom. We have Kagamusha. Machine Conversion Factory. Flame Manipulator, manipulating flame. Spike Cedra. Memmeth Graveyard. Firegrass. Dark World Thorns. And here we go. Let's get another foil. Ooh, a dragon capture jar. So it's not the foil. Well, it's not a foil at all, but it's not the car we're looking for. Maybe that means we'll capture that dragon later on though. Sittering looks pretty good on it. Pretty decent. We are now two for 11, I think. A lot of foils left in this box. The shuffling has been pretty intense. I think, let's double check. I think it's time to move on past auction number 12. So auction number 12 for Big Draco. Unfortunately, we'll be going back in. It was on the right. Okay. Yeah, cause it was, that's the Yami pack. Now everybody, whoever wins is gonna want that pack. Whoever wins is gonna want that one because it's the mysterious pack. So it looks like you guys want to see the Yami pack. It's on the right. Here we go. Ian, you're 0 for 2. Come on, I believe in you. You can do this. He said, let chat pick, okay? This is our halfway point. We have pulled two foils so far. Can we pull a blue eyes, white dragon? Can we pull a secret? I don't even really talked about the secret. We just talking about blue eyes. One, two, three, four. Pot of greed would be great. I mean, but we do want a foil for Ian because he hasn't gotten one yet. We have numerico, so again, mystical sheep, numero dose, triple-wire beast, the sandstone. So where was it? Like four pack, four cards, sandstone. Okay. We have lesser dragon, Masaki, the legendary swordsman, in warrior number one. And we have, will it be a foil? Okay. Normal, normal. That's good. Let's go. First edition, blue eyes, white dragon. Let's go. What? For the first time, I have finally pulled a blue eyes. Oh, after many openings and Ian. Let's go. Third pack, it was in the yammy pack. No way. Oh, it was in there the whole time. There is no, there's no way. There is no way. Can you believe that? The best card in Yu-Gi-Oh! And my best card, I mean, like not playable-wise, but just, you know, collectible, amazing, awesome. Oh my goodness. Here we go. First edition pack. Let's open this thing up. Let's see what we can get. One, two, three, four. Can we get another foil? We have frenzy panda, silver fang, electoral wimp, beaver warrior, we have rucks and special. We have red medicine, kurama, terror the terrible, dark gray.  Oh, it's got a foil line in it, which can hurt the grade, but a lot of people really like these foil lines because it's sort of a misprint. So like this kind of split the foil, if you guys can tell, that's really cool. I wonder if the other cards had that. I didn't notice it, but maybe they did. This box is pretty, pretty amazing. We're just getting good cards left and right. Let's get a secret rare right here. Secret rare, it can happen right now. One, two, three, four. Skull red bird. What's the resume? Yummy, we got, oh, there it is, the yummy. Woody Phantom, my favorite duo right there. We have M-wear number one, mountain, violet crystal. Dark King of the Abyss. And can we get a secret rare, a fissure. Come on, where's the pot of greed? Fissure is a good one though, because it's classic, but where is the pot of greed? We want the pot of greed, make it happen. First edition pack. Can we get a foil? There's still a few foils left in this box. Let's get a secret, one, two, three, four. We have Numerico. We've got Sogan. Mystical Sheep, numero dos. Tripwire Beast. Metabat. Sandstone. Lesser Dragoon. Masaki the legendary swordsman. Can we get a pot of greed at least, like for a rare? We still haven't gotten one. And a man-eater bug, let's go. Man-eater bug, super rare. That is nice. All right, sinnering's pretty good on it. That is a nice pull. All right, another good pull. So we're up to three supers. Okay, five foils pulled. So if it's a secret rare box, we have a super and a secret left. Right, okay, here we go. Let's do this. First-ed pack. Let's see if we can get a secret rare. We have Fire Yaru. We have Succubus Knight. Tyone. Enchanting Mermaid. We've got Umi. Can we get our first pot of greed? I'm asking for that. Rageki'd be good. Can we get a secret? You know what's on my soul? We got Armail. Thirteenth Grave. And we have Pot of Pot of Greed. Come on. Some magic card I thought it could be Pot of Greed. Stop defense. Okay, the Pot of Greed dream still lives on, okay? First-ed. Let's get a Pot of Greed. Let's get a super. Let's get a secret. Let's get something. Let's get a third Ultra. Pull something amazing. One, two, three, four. Here we go. We have Petit Drogon. Brew water. Drooling Lazard. We've got Sparks. Turtle Tigre. Heart Armor. Kumutoko. Forest. Can't see the forest through the trees, but will we see a secret rare flower wolf? So that would be in the forest. That makes sense. No, we will not see a secret rare in that pack. Unfortunately. All right. Let's see if we can get a secret rare right here. We have M Warrior. Number two. Trial of Hell. Are we gonna get the Skull Servant as well? Let's find out. We have Dissolverock. Wasteland. Skull Servant, we did. Okay, they're always together, it seems like. Green Phantom King. We have the Hitatsumi Giants. Follow End.  Come on. Final Flame. So no, not a secret in that one. That's the Final Flame. Jeepool setting must 24 as well. So all right, I will do that for ya. Nothing in that one. Maybe this next pack's the lucky pack and it'll work out. Back to the right side. First Ed. I don't know what pack we're on at this point. I think we're on, this should be 19 or, 19 I think. Okay, here we go. First edition. Here we go. One, two, three, four. We have Larvis. Basic Insect. Reintubitula. Book of Secret Arts. Silver, Bow, and Arrow. These are good short prints we're getting right here. Book of Secret Arts. Teen Angel, we have the Furious Sea King. One-eyed Shield Dragon. And when we get a secret rare, come on baby, let's go. Metal Dragon. Oh, where's the secret? Jeepool. Oh man, nothing in there. Thanks for getting two packs. Let's go, let's open Greek Geek. He said right, correct? Right, okay. Here we go. First edition. Legend of Blue Eyes, White Dragon. County Pull. Pack 20, will this be the secret? One, two, three, four. Here we go. We have Fire Yaru. Succubus Knight. Tyhone. Channing Mermaid. Umi. Hino Tomasoul. Armail. The 13th Grave. Come on, I think this is the last card. Trihorn Dragon, baby, let's go. Oh, Trubin. Another rare, come on. I, oh, come on, give us a secret. Give us the other box that got Blue Eyes, Dark Magician, had a secret. I'm hoping we do as well. I'm hoping we do as well. Here we go. First edition. Legend of Blue Eyes, White Dragon. One, two, three, four. Skull Redbird. We have Miserizame. Yame. That's great. This is special. Witty Phantom. M Warrior number one. Mountain. Mystical Moon. Dark King of the Abyss. Will this be the secret? Carbonara Warrior, no pot of greed. Where's the pot of greed? We need the pot of greed. Where is it? We need to draw two cards. So there is now one pack on left and right now, which is gonna be a good way to end it. First edition, Legend of Blue Eyes. This is auction number 27. Here we go. One, two, three, four. We have. For our yard, give us that trihorn. So I keep his knight. Or if I'm wrong, it's a Gaia. That'd be even better. It's our own. We have Enchanin Mermaid. We have Hitho Tomasoul. Our male. The 13th Grave. Yorabi? Come on, baby. Okay. It's a vanilla. Could be a trihorn.  That's a good one. It's a good anime rare, but it is not a secret rare, like they were looking for. Okay. Pretty good. Pretty solid. If it's a rare, it'd be a pot of greed. Maybe it'll have a trihorn in it, which is what I'm really hoping for. Here we go. Good luck. Okay. One, two, three, four from the back. We have. Man-eater. Two packs left in the box. We have removed trap. Silver Grotto number one. Monster egg. Two mouth, dark ruler. Let's get a secret rare trihorn right here. Hino Toma. We have armored starfish. Metabat. And here we go. I steered you wrong. Okay. I think that means it's a guaranteed foil in the last pack because it'd only be a five pack hollow box. So it should be, I'm gonna say 99% because I don't want, you can't guarantee anything, but if anything, this is as good as close as you get. Last pack magic. Let's do it. Here we go. Last pack for the Greek geek. This is our last pack for the stream. If you guys have enjoyed it, if you're on YouTube, make sure you subscribe. If you're on what not, make sure you follow me up. Make sure you give me a follow because we're almost at 10,000 followers. If you're on YouTube, you can follow there as well. Okay. Let's go guys. Let's do this. Last pack magic. First edition. There should be something in here. Now Yami's pack is now trying to go through again. There should be something in here. Let's go. One, two, three, four. We have basic insect. Can it be a Trihorn dragon secret? Will it be a super? Will it be another ultra raised body heat? That's a short print. We have Ray and Tipitula. Vile germs. Petite angel. Last pack magic. Will it be a third ultra? Will it be a secret? Will it be another super? Fury is seeking. I would love a Trihorn dragon right here. Let's go. One-eyed shield dragon. We have Umi and we have Last Pack Magic of this amazing first edition Legend of Blue Eyes box. Dark hole. Super rare. All right. So no secret in the box, but an absolutely amazing super rare dark hole. Back looks pretty clean. Let's go. Last pack magic. You'll love to see it. Dark hole. What an opening guys. This has been awesome. I appreciate you guys. Thank you guys all for being here. Congrats to everybody who won a giveaway. Congrats to Ian, especially for the big poll and everybody else that we had to pull up the dark magician too. So thank you guys so much. I hope to see you in the next what not stream, which has not been scheduled, but it will and you guys will be announced over on YouTube. So make sure you follow me on YouTube and on what not. Oh, we got a raid. 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My latest passion is cloud and DevOps, helping customers to put technology and operations together to make true value propositions come alive for cloud services. In another part of this building right now, there is a talk happening called the Thunderdome. It's likely to be highly intense and there'll be lots and lots of opinions and outspoken voices. We knew that we were up against a very high profile session, we wanted to try and go beyond Thunderdome. So this is the Mad Max sequel where we're trying to give you guys some legitimate business advice to follow that will help you on your journey to cloud to make sure you're getting all the right bits and pieces you need for your business to be successful. So as with the Mad Max film, we're going to make sure that in a world full of chaos you make that journey into IT obscurity, come back to ensure salvation and ultimately save the children because that's what we're all here to do to make sure we save the children. For those of you that don't know a little bit about Rackspace, so Rackspace have been in the hosting business for quite a number of years now. We've been one of the founders of OpenStack and we've been doing the cloud piece now for equally a number of years. Back in July we made a small tweak in our message where we called ourselves the Managed Cloud Provider. Since we started it's been about delivering expertise and specialism and service alongside technology. So having people to help you solve problems rather than the technology on its own. When we're talking about Rackspace being the Managed Cloud Provider it basically means that everything you buy from us in some way is cloud. Whether it's a dedicated server in a data centre, whether it's a Rackspace private cloud running OpenStack, whether it's our public cloud. It's all cloud because our customers have been calling it cloud. When we think about management we're thinking about high quality service and expertise on top of those things to help you solve actual business problems. People talk about it before but this concept of fanatical support, we're still a people-based business. Some of my colleagues are in the room, we're people that want to work with you collaboratively to solve problems and to make sure that you're getting the right support for your business that's trying to grow and react to the myriad of IT challenges that are out there at the moment. We love open source, we've been passionate about open source for a number of years now because if you think about it we're a people differentiated service company.  It doesn't matter if my service is any good anymore because you're locked in by that licence. If I build all of my services on open source technologies I'm giving you the freedom to consume our service and if you believe it's not up to standard you can walk away and you can build your technology stack somewhere else. Most of this stuff is there on GitHub or other open source repositories. You can contribute and collaborate with us on the code itself if you want to rather than just consume it. With OpenStack at Rackspace having been a founder we've worked with pretty much all the code through the good times and the bad times and these are the major pieces of our OpenStack portfolio nowadays. We're production with Nova, with Glance, Cinder, Neutron, Heat. We've got actual contributions around things like Trove, Barbican, Solum. There are many other areas where we're starting to build out additional services. But that's not really why we're here today. We're here today to discuss a problem. The problem that I foresee and that I've seen with talking to many customers is that what's happening in IT right now is a battle on many fronts. It's a bit like playing risk. You've got multiple fronts open with different parties. It's a big challenge to really kind of keep on top of all the things you're supposed to be in charge of when you're running an IT organisation and the bigger and more complex your business gets the more complex the IT becomes as well. And it's about conflicting goals. How many people have been in the last year or so asked to deliver something both better and cheaper? Or I want it to be more stable and cheaper. The expectation is that functionality and value are going up while costs are going down and it is your job to magically make those things happen, please. What we're really talking about here though and what's driving a lot of this is not cost, it's not stability, it's speed. And not speed in terms of application performance, speed in terms of things like time to market, ability to respond to a piece of technology. So when a new thing happens like Docker or like big data happened or like when cloud happens, the people that monetise that stuff and deliver it in valuable services to their customers are the people that can react quickly to new technology trends. Enabling that agility in your business is absolutely key because faster means that faster decision making, it's faster cycle times getting value out to your customers and it's also reduced time to market. It should be a financial driver. You should be able to have a conversation with your CFO or your head of accounting about why these kind of investments in IT are a sensible thing to do. It's also true that shadow IT is a constant threat and a constant challenge. So it's kind of Darwin in IT technology. It's survival of the fittest, but actually it's survival of the fastest. If you are not the fastest animal on the plane, you're likely to get eaten. So what we're trying to do here is identify the things that make IT services inside businesses slower and less valuable and provide that capability to them. So when you think about things like shadow IT, that is the story of how your users want to consume stuff. So if you're in a business right now where you've got an IT function but a ton of people are using Amazon or Rackspace or Azure, look at what they're doing. That usage is the key to the things that you should be doing to provide a more valuable service to the business. And if Gartner are talking about this stuff, then it probably means your CEO is as well. So Gartner are talking about bimodal IT, the idea that most IT organisations will have two speeds, fast and slow. And by 2017, about 75% of IT organisations will have some sort of bimodal capability. What that means is that you will have an area which is very cloud oriented, maybe doing things like DevOps, high levels of automation. There will be kinds of applications and workloads that fit into that usage model. But there may be legacy systems of record that do not tolerate that level of change, that may be delivered on other technology platforms. It could be more VM work, it could be mainframe. There's nothing that says you probably can't do DevOps on mainframe, I just probably wouldn't recommend it. Hands up who feels like sometimes they're doing whack-a-mole with IT. On one day it's social and mobile, on the next day it's DevOps and then you should be doing cloud and now we should be doing some e-commerce stuff. Oh, there's been an incident therefore this is now the new most important thing. There are so many things that a business needs to do to have a world-class IT function, that there really is no one magic one. It's finding the right combination that suits your business and gets the blend you need. Anyone feel like they're doing this sometimes? How many of you remember a time where you've done the ball right there in the far left? You don't notice it but you dropped it, it fell away because there's so many things to do, so many things to focus on. And this is where we get the IT paradox. The IT paradox says that your business wants you to enable it with IT and services and valuable things. Yet you're stuck in the swamp of patching and updating, security and hardening, low-level maintenance, keeping things running. You're there to protect what already exists rather than to build capabilities that serve. So if you're looking to evolve your IT, you've got to get out of the swamps and start walking on two legs. So this is about the journey of evolution that allows you to get to this right-hand side. And the way we like to think about doing that stuff is, I think the word platform as a service is horribly overused. I'm thinking here about business platforms. A portfolio of services and providers and vendors that you outsource things to and you give them the accountability to protect and serve those things that you know are every day in mundane. Freeing you up then to use your expertise and domain knowledge in your business and how it works and the relationships that make it run to deliver things that are more valuable. To enable and to serve, because we might be a people-based hosting company but I don't know your business better than you do. Your domain knowledge is how to go deliver great services to your customers. It's our job to provide the back-end scaffolding that supports that. So I love an analogy in just about all of my presentations and I get another geek life achievement today where I get to talk about Street Fighter and hosting in the same go. Hands up who played Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Well done. Probably one of the best games ever written. And we were talking about how to go do combos because combos are the great way to win that Street Fighter. You can pretty much get like 16 hits in and the other person can't get a hit back. You get the perfect score. And when you're thinking about combos, it's about assembling special moves. And the people that played in tournaments with Street Fighter, they weren't just good at one character. They were good at lots of characters. They understand the pros and the cons of those different guys and they knew all their special moves. Some of them were really complicated. Others were really easy and really frustrating. So there is a recipe for success by being e-honda and doing the 100-hand slap all the way across the screen. But you also do need to think about having multiple things in your wheelhouse and multiple skill sets. So I'm not going to spend the whole time doing Street Fighter. I would love to. I'm going to show you racked space of special moves. And I've even given you all the button codes to go do those special moves on your special DevOps keypads that I'm sure you will have. We'll go through each one of these in detail, talk a bit about them a little bit more because these are the areas of racked spaces portfolio which probably are the newest. They're the ones that are most valuable when you put them together with other things. So I'm going to show you how to build combos using these different things. So let's start with Hybrid Cloud. Hybrid Cloud has been around as a concept for quite a long time now. This is about providing you with choice, your choice of performance. Do I want low cost per hour commoditized public cloud? Do I want a dedicated server that I know sits in a rack belongs only to me with no APIs around it at all? Do I want that because of security? Do I know that I have a certified application that only runs on IVMware-based platform rather than OpenStack one? That's okay. Do I want per hour consumption with no real discounts for commitment? Or do I want to sign up for something for three years and benefit from the reduced prices I'll get around it? And do I get to control the architecture from a software, from a network, from a hardware, from a storage level to get the things my business needs? I'm going to unpick one particular part of Hybrid which is Rack Spaces on Metal service. So we launched on Metal in the US earlier this year and it challenges what people think Hybrid is because this is a dedicated bare metal machine in a public cloud. I use the Nova API to spin it up. It's based on all the stuff in Ironic and I can use it per hour and I can throw it away again when I'm done with it. Is that Hybrid? Because it's all public cloud but it's mixing workloads between physical and bare metal and virtualized. I think what we're saying, Hybrid here is now is a choice between a single or a multi-tenant API, for example. Do I have a private cloud where that API experience belongs only to me? Or do I have an API which is multi-tenant and many people can go access and use? But I can still make sure that the resources inside are on their own. If you look at, for example, the on metal IO flavour it's a pretty powerful server. It's probably more powerful than most of the servers we have in most customers' dedicated solutions. It's optimized for performance because we know that if you've got just those couple of boxes in an application stack that are responsible for a really meaty database service you don't really want to have to go build out a whole different kind of technology. You want to use a cloud application. You want to have all the benefits of cloud and virtualization overhead on performance. Listen to all that DevOps. Very close to my heart. Responsible for a lot of racked spaces DevOps services. Because we've got this perfect opportunity for DevOps we've got internet business where really if you're not online nowadays you're not really in business. We've got cloud computing, democratizing IT so that the world's biggest organizations are competing with the world's smallest equal playing field for access to computing resource. And then you've got open source which is just powered choice. The number of things I can go and build an application with today that I couldn't do five years ago has completely changed the complexity of different customers' application stacks. And I don't think it's fair to say that we're going to drive all of that into classic IT management and expect them just to pick it up and deal with it. That level of change in an industry requires a completely new way of managing IT. The way we think about that is about enabling choice in something called stacks. So you build your application stack based on the components that we've written support for. So you've got a rich choice, you can combine whatever flavor of those you want and as you build that stack out you get the advantage of integrated services. So we'll take the time to integrate those components with New Relic or with GitHub or with our Rack Connect services so you can do things like autoscale. And if it's in your business interest and you have a web server from an Apache layer to an engine X layer you can do that really quickly and really easily and all the integration is taken care of. There's no retooling work to be done. We're enabling choice and flexibility at the infrastructure layer to allow you to react faster. And the output of that is that if we think about IaaS being infrastructure on demand I use an API, I spin things up. What we've got now is application components on demand. Rather than you creating a server which you then go do maybe automated or maybe manual provisioning of Apache and your configuration and your application when you use this service and we dial up a web server within minutes it's a web server ready to go delivering stuff back to your customers. So we're just completely taking away that area where we were asking you to do things yourself for provisioning we can now give you the things your business cares about straight away. So data services, this encapsulates the big data movement and big data is interesting for me because it's not particularly descriptive. You'd think that an adjective and a thing and a noun makes sense, right? But actually big data can mean many things. So we'll be talking tomorrow with CERN about a federation project we've been doing and if you saw their keynote earlier you've seen some staggering numbers about data. It makes everyone else's big data problem look kind of small. But they don't do huge amounts of analysis on that data. They just have to store lots of it. Whereas the NFL, the Football League in the US they keep 607,399 plays. Every single play in a game of football that's ever existed for the last, I think is about 10 years or so. And that whole data set is 80 meg. That's a hugely complex data set to go analyse but it takes, I can put it on a thumb drive I can carry it around in my pocket. Is that big data? Well the analytics and science behind it, absolutely. I just don't need multimillion pound storage arrays to go store it. So what we're finding is with big data there's a lot of confusion and there's a lot of work to do to get stuff out of the ground. So taking it from servers to a platform that you can go run analytics and other scenarios on top of is a long stretch. You could be doing a lot of work on big data before you deliver anything back to your business. What we're doing here is building data platforms. So we acquired a company called Object Rocket. We've been putting more and more database services into Object Rocket. If you want to do MongoDB or Redis now you can spin up a cluster on there with an API in a couple of seconds you can be live loading data into those instances. We take care of the scaling, the backup, the sharding, the growth, the reductions. You just consume the service. So you can straight away skip to okay how do I go maximise this inside my business? We're doing the same thing with Hadoop. Our partnership with Hortonworks enables us to do Hadoop services in our public cloud as they spin it up and away you go start crunching map-reduce service as well as availability on the on-metal platform that we talked about earlier. That's a recent addition in the last couple of weeks. Again, don't spend time working out how to go build out a very complex platform. Use it, get your business interest in it. If there's a need to go customise it come back to us. We've got the expertise, we've got the architects that sit down with you and run it through. Digital e-commerce, this is kind of a no brainer, right? If you're here, you're running websites, you're probably doing some sort of digital or some sort of e-commerce. But there's a growing trend now that says that just about everything has an online channel be it for brand creation or for revenue. And businesses are starting to recognise that this is a high value channel and the downtime in that channel, loss of reputation, loss of brand, loss of features and functionality can all have material impact on revenue. And when that kind of hard connection to bottom line revenue starts to get made the importance of this stuff goes up. And there's lots of tools out there. You can go down the magento, start open source and become more enterprise-y. You can start at the ultimate expression of enterprise with Oracle and come the other way back. We have support for all these platforms within Rackspace. So rather than just talking to us about a web server or a database server you can talk about the particular architecture you need to run a really good hybrid platform or a really good magento platform. And here's what it looks like. So when you combine that expertise with the technology, we build you the reference architecture for you to go customise from. So let's use that as a start for 10, find out how that meets your needs of your business and go customise it. And we can package those things in a heat template. So that using on metal, using public cloud, using private cloud, with one click. You can give that to your developers and say hey, go spin up new ones of these, play around with it. When I want to go make changes in production I can make changes to my heat templates. We're starting to talk about combos here because you've got hybrid portfolio with heat templates and knowledge and a specialism around digital. You start to talk about automation you're starting to bring in DevOps. So we've got lots of these different things floating around. How do you know which one is most important to you? Hands up, who thinks clouds are the most important thing in their business? People from Rackspace would say that. Likewise for DevOps, I think you could say that these are going to be equal. One must be more important than the other. So I've put some kind of guidance statements out here that says this is important, so hybrid cloud is important when things like security, location of your data, when infrastructure and architecture are business differentiating. With the DevOps service this is around time to market, automated. The ability to do scaling. If you think about the type of industry you're in, is it very spiky, very unpredictable? Do you need to be able to respond quickly? Those are things where you're connecting IT capabilities with the needs of your business. Data services, when someone has had the great idea that you should just stop throwing data away and at some point maybe one or two years later they say what are we doing with this data? How do you make a plan to go investigate? Because there's probably patterns in that data that would give you great insight into how to run your business. But getting the platform out to analyse those and expose those is a different challenge altogether. And then digital. If online brand and revenue is a significant driver that should be a priority for you guys. And each one of your businesses that you work for will be unique. You'll have a different blend. There is no prescribed template for what order to put those in. It's based on the things you need. When you are spending time listening to your business, understanding their priorities and their needs, you can reflect those in your choices. And when you pull it all together, let's say you're doing e-commerce with a need for automation, you want to analyse data and you want to benefit from cloud technologies. Let's go back to the original image. You've got the business expertise to go run that local to your organisation and your applications. But if you put together the services and most of that stuff is there available to you to go start working from. We're helping you to build a business platform from which you can start to go deliver value to your customers and to your internal stakeholders without working out how to go build the base elements of it. So let's talk about a quick summary. For this perfect score there is no unique. Every business is unique. There's no prescribed template. Are you going to share experiences with your peers and your colleagues? It's going to look different for different businesses. You must assemble the components and then prioritise what you need to thrive. So think about the things your business tells you the most often. What's their biggest pain points? Why is the most compelling reason to use an Amazon or a rack space or a public cloud service over what you're providing as an internal IT service? Those are the reasons to do these things first. Run the things that matter. So one of the most common pieces of feedback I get is that this stuff's new, it's interesting. I should be doing configuration management myself. Configuration management is boring. It's just system administration done differently. If you guys need to go through a process of learning that, that's okay. But ultimately you come back to the fact that I'll be better served by not doing that stuff. Having someone do it for me so I can concentrate on the really interesting automation that configuration management enables. Finally, deliver more faster. So we talked about that kind of IT evolution. Think about the quickest possible route to get yourself out of the swamp. How do you stop being mired down by the day-to-day everyday IT functions that you keep getting dragged into so you can put yourself above that and have proactive conversations about new services and new things you're trying to do. Lean on people like rack space who can help you to get out of that swamp quicker. So what do you do next? We'll look to start building that platform. Most of these services are available in a developer plus scenario. So developer.rackspace.com you can start to play around. We'll even give you £35 free every month. You can start to talk to a rack space specialist. You can have a conversation about these things. You can go with a credit card and sign up for object rocket and you can be on your way in a couple of minutes. This doesn't really have to be a really engagement until you want it to be. This technology is here for you to play with. But if you do have time stop by our booth. There's prizes and books and specialists and if you come at the right time there might even be beer and food. I think one of the things that we pride ourselves on as a managed service company is giving back to customers. With that in mind you can all have 15 minutes back. Thanks very much. Are there any questions? I'm going to hang around for a couple of minutes. You're all welcome to go do other things. We'll hopefully see you by the booth. Thanks.


Greetings, humans! I'm here to introduce you to VRChat. This is where you will first appear when you log in. This is VRChat home, the default location where you will always spawn unless you replace it with something else. The first thing you should do is go through your settings, as with any other game. You should look at your audio volumes. This is what I go with. And often times I play with the world volume depending on where am I, what's the levels of the worlds. They're not all even because it's all user generated content, so you never know where you will land. Usually between 75 and 100 is my go-to for them. You have Halloport, which is basically the, if you're on VR I should say, Halloport is the teleportation mode for movement. Comfort turning is snap turning that will snap you in degrees. If you're experienced VR user, you probably prefer smooth motion, so you would want to disable those. These are enabled by default. You should also disable personal space. It's a kind of bounding box around you. If someone goes closer than a certain range, they will simply disappear. You should enable our untrusted URLs. This really applies only to video players, so for streaming, video streaming or music streaming and other things. At DevConf, we haven't decided yet on how we will be streaming the presentations we may be using untrusted URL. Trusted URLs are the usual suspects, Twitch, YouTube and other services. Another important thing in the settings that you should visit is safety up here. I use my custom settings that also reflect the performance, the hardware performance that you're on. If you're not on a powerful machine, you might be a little bit more restricted with what you can enable. By default, you would be here, I think. But this means these are different user ranks. I'm a trusted user. I've been in VR chat for a really long time, even though not really, but that's the story. You will be maybe visitor, maybe new user very quickly. User takes a little while and further it slows down. It's kind of like levels in an RPG game. This serves to protect you from random people, new users who don't know how to use VR chat in the first place. Often times, these kinds of people use very invasive, intrusive others that are either really huge or they have a lot of effects or shaders that can shake your vision and do other kinds of unpleasant things. So while you get used to it, it's best to simply keep only these three. And I recommend this for the first two ranks as it is by default.  What is audio? Audio is various effects that people can have on their avatars. For instance, if I'm a dragon, I can scream like a dragon. You know, be cloud or that would be this audio toggle. Custom animations. I recommend enabling these as soon as possible because they're not very intrusive and they disable way too much. For instance, you see I have some armor, but I can change it to different clothing. That is also custom animation. So you wouldn't even see people in their correct clothing they are wearing. Next, particles and shaders. These may be really intrusive, these are the most intrusive pieces of the whole avatar setup that you could have because they can change everything, they can even render images directly in your vision, completely blinding you. That's why you wouldn't want these below half the rank basically. Because there are also malicious people who will create a new account, go into a public world and try to do nasty stuff. They can quickly bend, create a new account, they never progress through the ranks usually. My setup kind of reflects everything enabled above user and disabled under user. Shaders and particles also affect the performance a lot. Animations, audio, user icons do not. Voice, you wouldn't hear anyone if you disable it. Avatar, that's basically a very basic just mesh without nice shaders. For instance, my armor wouldn't be shiny, it would be just kind of gray, boring kind of thing. But you would still see. So if you're on a potato computer, you might want to set up your custom settings the way where you are showing only avatar, new hide particles and shaders, and you could still enable animations. That's what I would do, for instance. Friends are people you've added as a friend, so you can also enable everything for those, maybe? Maybe not. To access user-specific menu, you open up this little pop-up menu, then you can click on someone, and here you can see buttons like hide avatar, show avatar, or use safety settings. You can also turn off their voice, change their user-specific volume, or you can block them. If you see someone who is really intrusive, annoying, harassing someone, that's what the button is for. You can report people as well, which I'm not gonna do because this is my friend. Now that we've seen how to enable and hide avatars and handle safety settings, there is one more thing I would like to show you. Here in the corner of safety settings, you have performance options. Here you can hide avatars based on download size. For instance, my very custom and complex avatar, while it's not very heavy on performance, it has a lot of different clothing, a lot of sorts, and different items. It is over 30 megabytes. I've set it to 500 because I don't care. You can set it to 20 or something lower if you would like to actually have a useful limit here on download size. This will help you if you have slower internet connection, because every time someone appears, it may lag your game if your connection is very slow. Minimum displayed performance rank, so it's excellent, good, medium, poor, and very poor. This shows how many polygons, how many materials you do have on your avatar, and other things. So if you don't care, if you have powerful computers, set it to very poor. If you do care, I would recommend setting it to poor. That's the biggest step is between these two. Medium to poor isn't that much of a difference. Dynamic bone, the menu sometimes jumps away. Safety, performance option, dynamic bone. This is, as you can see, I disabled these limits. My hair, dynamic bone, things that are physically simulated that move. If I do this, you can see the wings move as well with physics. That's also dynamic bones. It's CPU heavy. Dynamic bones are CPU heavy, shaders, particles, GPU heavy. Last but not least, item on these settings that you may have noticed. Real user height, that's not actually real user height. This setting reflects arm span. So as you can see here, if you are in full body tracking, so you can move your legs. Real user height is your arm span when you are in T-pose. From left arm, right arm. It's not about height. You have it set to correct value that when you stretch your arms, they are nicely straight. Not bent and not too short. So like if you were too short, you would stretch your arm and you need to drag your whole torso to the side. That's not good. It's very avatar dependent. User generated content, different avatars, different proportions. Next, how do we join worlds? You can search for worlds in worlds category using the search. You have all kinds of recommended or suggested categories. You can favorite worlds. For instance, I have this faculty of informatics here, our venue. I can favorite it and add it to one of my categories for different worlds. Sometimes it doesn't load, so it's showing us zero, but I have some. But it's fine. Let's ignore minor bugs. You can either directly join a world or you can drop a portal which can be used by others as well. Portals disappear in under half a minute. However, by default, what you can see here, this is a public instance. Means anyone can join it. You might want to create a new instance, set it to friends plus that's any friend of a user who is already there can join. Friends of friends, basically. Friends only, only your own friends. Invite plus, anyone can invite people. Invite only, only you can invite people. Most commonly used is friends plus. For DEF CONF purposes, we'll be using friends only. That means in order to join our instance of faculty of informatics, you must be a friend with our DEF CONF account. Joining our instance of DEF CONF, you would go to social and here you would find our DEF CONF account. Our DEF CONF account will be set as blue state, like me. Blue means that anyone can join, you don't need a permission from the user. However, the instance limitations still apply. By default, you are green, so you would receive invite requests. By blue, they are automatically accepted. So you would find our DEF CONF account, you would click on it, and then you would have a button here join. I can show it to you on someone else, for instance here. You would have a button join here. This person is in a world that is either friends, either invite only or invite plus. That means I cannot join them. Our friends only world of someone else, not their own. So I have a request invite button here. When I click it, it will send them a notification that I would like to join them and they can invite me. You can invite people using the invite button. Instead of this request invite button, you will have a join and that directly joins others. Let's see if we have someone in a public world. See, Walter here is in a public world, whom I can just directly join and I will immediately teleport over there. And that concludes our tour of VRChat. When you get to the DEF CONF venue, you will appear in a spawn room. Do not get frightened. Yes, it's an empty cube where you have nothing. Here's some information that you should really read. When you are done, click to teleport to the venue. You click this button, you will appear in the Faculty of Informatics. Thank you very much. Here is the exit button.


Britain's defense chief, Ukraine could successfully retake Crimea. There is a real possibility Ukraine could successfully retake Crimea, Britain's defense secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview with the Washington Post. He voiced a more optimistic view about Ukraine's current battlefield effort than that described by U.S. intelligence officials who in leaked intelligence documents earlier this year said that personnel and equipment challenges probably would result in Kiev notching only modest gains once it begins a highly anticipated offensive to retake Russian-held territory. While U.S. officials say there have been improvements since then, they have also suggested that even the recapture of small areas could affect Russia's war plans. Wallace said the scale of Russian losses suggests Putin still believes he can prevail if he pours more troops into the war. He suggested Putin may not be getting accurate information about the military effort and might not realize the extent of his country's military challenges until a moment of collapse or internal challenge. If that happens, he said NATO and the West have to be ready for whatever happens.