Before this video starts, please don't skip this by the way. I want you guys to know this was from the week in advance and this is very poorly timed. I wanted this video uploaded in May, but I know it seems like I'm being insensitive about the current issues. So I'm here to tell you I'm not trying to diminish the struggles that other minorities face. I'm just speaking about my personal experiences and I know I'm very privileged to have a platform and to be Asian American. But I don't talk about that, so no need to remind me in the comments, okay? And normally I don't talk about current issues on this channel. I try to make it lighthearted, entertaining. This is an exception. I draw the line here, and I'm very disappointed in the other creators who aren't speaking up about this. I want to do the best I can to support you. And I know you have the time since you're in quarantine, so go to the description. Please consider donating, signing the petitions.  Tweeting the hashtag isn't enough, so I want to do more. But I also want to know what else I can do, so please let me know. I do want to learn. That is my two cents. Now enjoy the video. Hello, bids. My name is Famulan today. Turns out I do miss it when you guys misspelled my name to another universe. So I'll keep it up. You can go ahead and call me whatever name you want as long as it starts with F. Pardon me if I look distracted throughout the video, there's a bug in my room. And I can't catch it.  But I'm not painting today. Today it's going to be a different video. If you don't know, May is known as Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.  What am I tired of? We'll talk about it soon. But I just want to talk about my experiences growing up as Asian American. Feel free to share your experiences in the comments. But if you're already uncomfortable about this video, click away. Actually don't, because kombucha is expensive. But to me, this is an important topic to discuss, especially because I am on a platform and I don't see a lot of Asian YouTubers discussing this, and I don't see a lot of Asian YouTubers in general, which is a problem. I think it's necessary for us to talk about representation in media and just growing up as not a cisgender white male. So I'm so sorry Ricky or Steve or John. Please close your chapped lips while you listen to my TED talk. This video is going to be separated chronologically. These are all the topics we're going to be discussing today. So formal. I've never done this before. Last time I was sitting down I shaved my eyebrows off and look at me now. Beautiful. So it all started when I was born. Fredericks out of the womb, living. Not thriving, but living in Charleston, South Carolina. Not the most progressive city, the bug. I'm going for it. So I was able to kill it, but I also spilled all of my plants on the ground. F*** that bug. I smell sabotage. Ooh, before I was so really interrupted, Charleston, South Carolina is not the most progressive city, but it was, it's okay, it's in the middle. There's a lot of tourists that come because they like to see the remnants of the civil war. I don't know why they come, honestly. I don't know why. It's humid. There's downtown. But the first memory that I had that pertains to being Asian American was in third grade, where I got my nickname, That Majidation. Yes, to those of you who aren't aware, and I'm so sorry if you could offend about my username, but in third grade, someone that I knew, I don't know if I was friends with him or not, he called me That Majidation and then suddenly the whole grade started to call me That Majidation. See, I was a very small child and I happened to be the shortest in my grade and there weren't that many Asians. So that Majidation just clicked for him, I guess. I didn't really know much in third grade. I only knew like Pop Tropica and Silly Bands, so I thought it was a cool nickname given because I'm an oblivious dumbass. So I was like, yeah, that Majidation, that's me, cool. Until middle school. Some of my friends still came with me to sixth grade. If you don't know, we've moved through schools between grades one through five, six through eight, and nine through 12. I'm so sorry to all the Europeans, you're gonna have to figure it out yourself. In sixth grade, my friends were still calling me that and eventually a teacher noticed and she dragged me aside and she was like, Frederick, why are they calling you that? And I was like, it's my nickname. Excuse you. Uh, no, Frederick. They're bullying you. Oh. You know, I see your point. Yeah, it was upsetting when I realized I was name calling myself for three years straight. But at that point I was like, well, everyone's calling me this. I can't get them to stop. So I should just own up to it. I was a very class clown as a kid. You know, I made jokes, made fun of myself, haha, self deprecation, haha. Don't bully me, haha, like that kind of stuff. So I called myself that Majidation and eventually just lost its meaning and it's why it's my username still because they, they don't stop.  Okay. You gave me my username. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. I'm here again. Future Frederick will be popping in and out because I forgot to talk about some things that I think are important. One of which being a joke that every middle schooler made towards every Asian was Qing Chong. I don't know where it comes from, but everyone said it to us. The joke about how every last name is just the sound of pots and pans banging on the floor. Really original. I totally didn't hear that from every Tumblr page. I don't know why you're judging. Your name is John Smith or it's some month flower or season. It was also in middle school where I learned that Asians were not going to be called hot. Like none of my friends ever referred to any person as attractive. I also don't know why we cared about dating in middle school, but we did. And I think I've been called cute my entire life to the point where it doesn't phase me. Your DM saying I'm cute is really not going to do anything. Okay. And it's lost all meaning. Like I want, I want to be hot. And it's just because like I don't think hot Asians were just in media yet. Yeah. But like back in middle school, no. But in middle school, that's when people start to care about how you looked suddenly. Suddenly had to be cool. You had to look cool. You had to dress cool. Middle schoolers today. I don't know. TikTok be cool. Something like that. All the bugs alive.  Basically, if you weren't white because a lot of people in Charleston are white, you were like unique. You were stand out. People looked at you differently. Maybe not bully. I wasn't really like ridiculed at school.  What do you do about that? It's like you don't have a bridge. Yes. There are Asians that have a flatter nose. Thank you for reminding me.  Oh my God. You're so funny.  Racist, ignorant, obese. Come to America where we assimilate another culture. Did I lie? Did I lie? Yes.  What about it? But it's just a lame joke. That's the best you can do and make fun of our eyes. And let me just debunk something real quick. There are plenty of Asians who have double eyelids naturally. Double eyelids do not have to be a beauty standard. Okay? That shouldn't be a thing. If you want a beauty standard, give me 50 eyelids. Okay? See if you can do that. Same thing with the nose. Okay? Like everyone grows up with a different nose. Noses are unique. No one has to bully each other about it. Not everyone needs the most popular Instagramer's nose. Okay? Back then Instagram wasn't really that popular, so we didn't really care about like how society saw us. We were just not used to things that weren't the norm because there weren't that many Asians in my grade, at least not many that I was friends with. I knew around 10 Asians I can think of. And most of the jokes they made weren't supposed to be like attacking me. It was trying to be lighthearted, but either way, 6th grade Frederick got self-conscious and offended and was very insecure about how he looked.  Boys will flaunt over you 21st. No, they don't. And I know there's some Asians that can relate. There were products that went around like nose pinchers.  It was supposed to point your like this way, let it protrude towards you. And I bought one and I used it.  But to me, I was insecure about being Asian because it was just not common. Like I was insecure about having friends in my house because I didn't want my parents to embarrass me. Maybe you thought your parents were cringy back in middle school when in reality they're literally being a parent. But to me, it was like I didn't want my friends to see the Buddha statue we had on our counter or like see my mom cook because we cooked with chives and chives were so disgusting apparently. Having chives and green onion in your lunchbox was a death sentence. No one would sit next to you. So when my mom made dumplings, I would always eat them at home and never bring them to school because if you opened that container, the whole grade ran away from you. But to me, it's normal to have chives, green onions, and soy sauce like that's my blood guys. It just wasn't common though. So I was insecure about my culture. I didn't really define about my culture anyways. Didn't really know when my culture was too because I just wasn't smart in middle school. I didn't even talk about high school in the first recording, but when I moved in 10th grade to Morristown, New Jersey, this town was very small. First impression. Everyone knows each other and at school a lot of people were white. So there was no difference. You know, I still had the same amount of Asian friends, which was 5, 10. And it was also when I started thinking about am I Asian enough? I never went to Chinese school.  So I only know how to speak Mandarin and it's not even that good because some people say my accent is terrible. But I also heard people say it's fine because my parents are from a specific area. And it would just make me question like, could I even consider myself Asian? Am I just too whitewashed? I know I'm ABC, but sometimes I thought I couldn't be proud of my heritage because then other people would say, well, you're not Asian enough to be proud. Like you don't even know this. You couldn't even make a dumpling, which I do know how to make them. But it was just me questioning myself. I would always compare myself to like people who were from China.  People who actually came from China and then me. Silver hair, wears nail polish like that. Chinese people didn't even know I was Chinese when I got to NYU. That's how different it was. In high school, I also started working at Wegmans, which is basically a whole foods. And on your name tag, you have this option to put a different language that says, hi, how are you? And mine was written in Chinese. And you know, people are going to ask because if it's not English, they're like, I'm very curious. Please tell me what it is, which is fun. I love it when people actually want to know other cultures. But I think I lived in two bubbles where they just weren't exposed to other cultures at all. Like, they're very, it's very vanilla. So I would get people literally asking me, like, is Frederick, is that a Chinese name? Where'd you get that from? I ever heard of Frederick Chopin, Frederick Douglass. Like, why do you think Frederick's Chinese? What? And of course, people are going to ask, where are you from? And of course, I answer with Charleston, South Carolina, where are you from, ma'am? And they get caught off guard because they always assume you're from somewhere in Asia. I've already talked about it, but please don't say where are you from from because I will slap you. I will make you pay for 50 avocados on the register. I don't ask you where you come from, so you don't need to ask me that. Like, it doesn't matter. I will say, I was very taken aback when someone started speaking to me in Chinese and they were white.  Like, are you drunk? Because I wasn't paying attention. And then I realized he was actually speaking very fluent. And that's just great. That was a nice surprise. I did enjoy that. Another thing in high school, I learned about the Cambodian genocide in my English class, not even history. Yeah, I know. If you don't know where the Cambodian genocide is, I have it linked in the description below. You should learn about it. For some reason it's not in every textbook. Let me know if you've learned about it in a textbook. In eighth grade, I learned about Charleston history, which was just saying civil war was about separation between states and not slavery. So I'm just going to say this. Textbooks aren't that reliable. They depict things in a very different reality. They also omit a lot of things. But let me just read some quick facts for you. The Cambodian genocide results in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979. And that was around a quarter of Cambodia's population at the time. And that's not written in a textbook. I learned that from a book called First They Killed My Father in an honors humanity class in my senior year. I really don't know why they wouldn't put that in a textbook. I think that's very important to know about history. Growing up, the only Asians that I could see in media were Jackie Chan, Margaret Cho, Mulan. Yes, guys, an animated character was my role model growing up. Not even a real life person. Like, granted, I get it. It's a story, but it's loosely based off the story. There was no Mushu in the real story, guys. And on YouTube, it was Michelle Phan, Ryan Higa, Jackie Chan videos.  No, it's not the same. There's an imbalance, okay? And in movies, we all know this. Every Asian was considered the doctor, the nerd, the one with the accent. For some reason, every Asian character has an accent because apparently they're all immigrants. And you talk like this, which is very jarring, now that I think about it. I was watching Yes Man, which was made in 2006, so it was a different time. And one of the characters was a Korean lady who had an accent. And I just thought like, why did they need it? There were no Asian leads in movies or shows. It just wasn't a thing. For anyone who's still confused on why I'm talking about this, having a role model is very important, especially when you're looking at things on the internet.  If you're Caucasian, you probably can't relate because you've had it forever. And I'm not blaming you, I'm just stating a fact. You don't have to think about this growing up as Caucasian. But if you are any minority of not even race, it's just not the same. Like I wouldn't be proud saying I'm Asian. I'll be like, yeah, I'm Asian, not white. And not only were there not a lot of Asians in the media, but there were like no gay Asians anywhere. So when I realized what gay men in eighth grade due to a Busby video, I was like, well, that can't happen.   Like those don't mix. Traditionally, Asian cultures are very conservative. They're not really used to things out of the norm.  Let that sink in for a little bit. There's a lot of countries that still don't even legalize it in Asia. There are a few areas that are more accepting like Hong Kong and Taiwan, some parts of Korea. But overall, it's still very like taboo because it's just not part of their culture. And no one in China can even watch me without a VPN because YouTube doesn't exist there. And please do not take this as I'm trying to be the Lorax of Asians on YouTube.  But even then, there's still not many Asians on YouTube. And even if there are, they don't get pushed as much as other creators. Like I see countless beauty influencers, but not many that happen to be Asian, even though Michelle Phan was the original and this is just not limited to Asians. This is a problem for any minority out there. Jackie Ayan and Neema Tang, one of the two who have over a million and happen to be black and beauty influencers. Nowadays, Asian representation in media has changed a lot. Let's talk about one of the biggest ones being Korea. ICKpop is usually on the top of the charts, but something that I do wanna talk about, this will be twisted probably. Some of y'all about to be real mad at me, but it must be said. Is the fact that even though Koreans are very popularized in media, they're objectified. And you can't tell me that's not true. And I'm not saying that any other race isn't objectified, but Koreans especially, due to the music industry and popularization of them in Western culture, are sexualized a little bit too much. Not every fan is like this. Do not twist my words. You are not the center of attention in this video. There's always exceptions to what I talk about, okay? Let's get that straight. And by objectifying, you essentially take out the human part and just see them as an idol, an icon. Perfectly fine until you cross that line of stalking them and chasing after them. There's many stories out there. There are people who talk about this more in depth that I will link down below. And there's always that other side of being Asian where it's the fetish side. I still can't say this word to this day, but I will write it out for you. Asian fetish, I'm not gonna try. I will tell you my personal experience, that this is the thing. I've gotten plenty of DMs from people who are way too old when I was under 18. Talk about my body. I don't even show my body on camera because I don't want to because it just pushes that narrative. But the one time I do, suddenly people wanna see me in a costume. They want to dominate me.  Cause that's what we are to them, you know? It's like, this stems way back when Asians were like supposed to be like this and do this and bow and that's it. You listen to your master and that carries over in the sexualization of us. And it's just wrong cause that's pedophilia when I was 16 years old and you're giving those comments. And I fully regret not screenshotting it. You get to be innocent another day. But if those people are watching, just know I'm not tolerating it. If you see the comment, I will so gladly put it on the internet for you cause no person needs to be dehumanized like that. But let's talk about some more positives that have been immediate. Crazy Rich Asians. It's a rom-com film that was directed by an Asian, John M. Chu, starred an entire Asian cast basically featuring actors like Constance Wu who was also in Fresh Off the Boat which is another show that started becoming popular during its time and if you don't know what Fresh Off the Boat means, here you go. It was nominated in many award shows and I was so happy to see it because they talked about Singapore in the movie and the book, books by the way. My dad is from Singapore so it was nice to see that for a change on a Hollywood movie. But I will criticize it a little bit and I know a lot of people other have. Crazy Rich Asians was the title of the book and it's fine. But to some people who are Asian, those weren't Asians. Those were Chinese. Like they were from Singapore. They all spoke the same language. They didn't include Korea, Japan, Cambodia, India. I can list so many more but I'm not going to because that will take forever. It featured a glimpse of what Asians are. A very specific type of Asian. Crazy Rich to be specific. But overall, it's diverse by having Asians but not diverse by having different types of Asians. And it makes sense why because the book was about Singapore. But I did want to bring that to light. Also, people try to criticize the movie for being a lackluster rom-com. I'm pretty sure all rom-coms can be considered that in some way because they're a rom-com. It's the fact that it's the first movie to feature an all Asian cast in a while since I forgot the name, but this movie. And I also want to say to everyone out there, China, Korea, and Japan are not the only Asian countries in the world, guys. Oh my God. Here's a whole list that I really don't want to get into but there are so many more cultures you can explore. And it's sad to say that because China, Korea, and Japan are being popularized in mainstream media, it raises their awareness but it diminishes the other ones because suddenly those aren't talked about in the news because why bother? No one cares, you know? That's what they think. But every culture deserves to be celebrated and I can assure you that it's not fun to not see it in media. Going back to Parasite, the movie Not the Anime, both are amazing, by the way, featured an entire Korean cast directed by a Korean producer. I'm not gonna be able to say it right, but this is his name. But it was the first non-English film ever to win the best picture. Think about that. In 2020, that was the first one. It's amazing to see but the feedback that erupted all over the internet after asking for an English version, an English dub, which is never good just so you know. That's another discussion but why? Not everything needs to be translated to English because subtitles are more than enough. And you know, it's so weird because the Oscars happened maybe three months ago, right? Suddenly everyone was celebrating the movie. They had a standing ovation. You could tell everyone loved Parasite and then coronavirus happened. And we went from loving this movie, loving Asians, to treating every Asian like they're the four horsemen of the popular, I don't know, something, not right. To me, it's like easy to hate on an Asian. It's like normal to hate on an Asian now. Like we're so stereotyped and generalized in media and movies. It's easy to this to an Asian student in school, call them the nerd, call them the straight A student. By the way, I did get all A's this semester. It's not even phased anymore. Like to see that in media is common, which not okay. Not okay to generalize every Chinese person that's having the virus. It's not because of China. And I also want to mention the college I attend, NYU. The amount of diversity at that college is amazing and I do appreciate the fact that many colleges are becoming more diverse. Hi, I'm back again. I did talk about NYU a little bit but I also want to talk about my recent experiences going from NYU back home during the coronavirus. When cases were starting to appear in New York, my mom instantly made us get masks. A couple of my friends already had masks too and we would wear them around the subway at the point where no one else was wearing them. So of course I got side-eyed and listened, sweetie. It's not because I have it. It's because I don't want it from you. And I'm lucky enough to not have experienced any discrimination, violence towards me from wearing a mask. We're just looking Asian. I am around NYU building. So yeah, it probably wouldn't happen there. But I was at the library one time and some older guy came into the elevator with us.  Face gets tomato red, leaves the elevator early and just like speeds walk away. That's just proving to me that a lot of people aren't educated enough about the purpose of a mask but that's the only face-to-face experience I've ever had with something like that. I also want to thank my parents for immigrating here because I am very lucky to be growing up here and I want to applaud my dad specifically because he came here by himself for three months straight. Barely knew English, had a thick accent and was able to carry himself around here, get a house, get my mom and sister to move here eventually and I am very proud of him and my family in general and I am proud of the Asian. I don't only have more points to make. I think that's all I have to say. If you have different opinions, feel free. Let's talk about it in the comments, okay? I am so open to it. Just don't sound ignorant, please. The world is progressing, okay? I'm not gonna try to convince you otherwise. I just think it took a little few steps back recently. Thank you to all the Karen's out there for helping. If you enjoyed this video, give it a like, you know, leave a comment down below. Let's talk. Subscribe for more videos every week. Turn on my notifications. I'm watching you turn them on. And as always, I love you guys and everything is less than three and happy Asian and Pacific Islander heritage month. Fuck, I gotta get ready for pride now. All right, let's shave my head.


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Hello everyone and welcome to the spokes podcast today. We're in Meredith Glazer's cargo bike And we're gonna talk to you about a little bit about what we're gonna do here at the Urban Cycling Institute So welcome to the show Meredith. Thank you. Thanks for having me. This is great This is my first time doing a ride cast. All right, so we'll see how well I can actually concentrate on talking talking to somebody while while riding and And having a guest in my cargo bike. Yeah, this is quite the crazy thing. So we're coming up into one of my favorite intersections because it was part of this desire lines analysis and So back in 2012, I think it was the city and a couple of partners Analyzed a couple of intersections and they found that Bicyclists were using the intersection in a very interesting way. You know, they weren't using the infrastructure per se. Yeah, and So what they did was they took those results and Right where that guy is standing behind behind you over there. Yeah, right there Yeah, so there used to be a protective island right there. Look at the size of that thing That's probably like seven meters across. It's huge. It's seven meters across. It's huge And maybe even more than that. I mean, it's a huge area. They took out the the protective island To make a lot of more space for cyclists And all the engineers were really nervous about doing that because of course You know, it's a protective measure and yeah, they want to make sure that everybody's safe But they took it out and and It was it was a success and so from the technical standpoint, you know, it was there are more cyclists could go through the green light and And Delay in that way was sort of reduced I guess, but it also made just so much more space. So in the morning peak There's just so many cyclists right at that intersection. I think something like 2000 in the in the morning, you know, it's just and then Throughout the whole day, there's something like 30,000 cyclists crossing that intersection. So it's pretty impressive. So that's a good example of research working with The government and consultancies to to make these innovative ideas happen So what kind of partners did you work with the city of Amsterdam? It was the city of Amsterdam. I think yeah, another traffic engineering consulting firm At Copenhagen I was on that yeah project and then the University of Amsterdam. All right. Yeah, so that's a big consortium And you know, I would like to see more of this happen where where researchers can really collaborate and bring their expertise to make something happen and especially in the Local neighborhoods, yeah, right and and contribute something back to the community. Yeah, that's really cool You also worked on a similar type project Where they took out all the traffic lights? Yeah, should we ride over there? I mean we could do have time Yeah, we could only another five minutes or something. All right But yeah, that was a really interesting project. That was two years ago at Alexander Plain when The bicycle program manager called me up and said hey Meredith, we're gonna do this pilot over at Alexander Plain we're gonna shut off the lights for two weeks and They already had hired a traffic engineering consultancy firm to To look at baseline and intervention, you know safety and delay and throughput and all the sort of technical Facets and what they wanted from us was to actually talk to bicyclists themselves So I got a team together of I think it was seven of us And we had video recorders I designed a sort of script and protocol for interviewing cyclists so intercept interviews and We interviewed At baseline so before the pilot before the traffic lights were shut off. We interviewed about 200 cyclists amazing, yeah during peak morning and evening rush and We asked them a couple questions. We asked them one, you know, what do you think of this traffic the intersection? We we also asked them do you think the lights are necessary? And then Wave bumps, yeah Do you think the lights are necessary and then? What do you think would happen if the lights were were shut off? So it was an interesting mix of results about Almost a hundred percent of the cyclists did not Like the intersection like with the traffic lights. Yeah with the lights on like people people really complained a lot they said, you know, it's too busy and people are are angry with each other and And And oh, they said things like the lights are always green at the same time Which we know that doesn't happen. Yeah, but it just felt like it just felt like that happened and Then And then they also said the lights are absolutely necessary So something like 80% I think said that you know without the traffic lights there will be chaos and So so that was a really interesting result and and then we went away for a Week or two weeks and then the pilots began so the lights they just shut the lights to a to a yellow blinking and We let it We let it settle for a couple days before doing the intervention Interviews and this time it was a lot more difficult to actually get the interviews because people were flowing, right? So we could easily get people when they were stopped at the red light, right? But during during the experiment it was it was difficult to get through it to run after people yeah But we got about 170 People of all different ages, you know, it was a very mixed mixed group And then we asked them some different questions We asked them one. Have you noticed? Did you notice that the lights had turned off? And then we asked them, you know, what what do you think? Yeah, and Again, we had some really interesting results For the first question if they noticed it actually 10% Did not even notice that the lights had changed the light situation like they didn't notice that there were the traffic Lights were all gone. No, they weren't all gone. They were just flashing So that was really interesting and it actually correlated really well because the technical Results showed that 10% ran the red light Wow, okay. So there were people who were there on most days just perhaps already doing this negotiating behavior Yeah And then we asked them, you know, what do you think of it? And it's not that everybody loved the intersection. It's that people like people disliked it less okay, and our conclusions were were We had a couple conclusions one was That there was a learning curve to this new situation, right That people were a bit uncomfortable With with negotiating a light on their own, yeah and It wasn't rainbows and unicorns, you know, it wasn't like oh, let's turn off the traffic lights and everybody's going to have a great time You know, no, there's actually a lot of Cognitive and neurological functions going on in your brain You know these processes that are happening in your brain that you when you negotiate in a situation That's new and that has that that is learning, you know learning takes time Yeah The other the other main conclusion was that social interaction Overall increased right from the before situation So people were using verbal gestures nonverbal gestures At an increased rate. They were also using eye contact at an increased rate and This was also the case between not only between cyclists and cyclists, but between cyclists and drivers as well And we also noticed that a lot of drivers would give would give priority using these gestures To cyclists even though they didn't have to kind of like what happened to us back there Right that so there was There was this sort of There was just an interesting social interaction going on taking place that just didn't take place beforehand and Yeah, we're not really sure like why or how this happens But maybe there are certain spaces that we can play with in our cities that that can allow for this type of social interaction and Again, it doesn't have to be positive, right? It doesn't necessarily have to be positive interactions, but Interactions can also just be can be difficult, right? Yeah, so Yeah Cool, I'll write it now. We'll write it. We'll go through the intersection and and we'll show you how it works Yeah, well actually, it's might be interesting to point out that since that it two years ago since that experiment two years ago The city then physically removed the traffic light infrastructure Oh, it's totally gone now. You can't even tell it was there. Yeah. Yeah, and then they it went through a whole redesign process as well So when what they also did was they shifted the priorities. So now whereas before Like I said car drivers would would sort of give give way to cyclists now they have to Yeah on that same stretch so So maybe now there's even less interaction Interesting because now cyclists have the priority right there. Yeah, and who knows if these interactions are meaningful You know there would we didn't we didn't collect data from Here we are using it. Uh-huh. Whoa. Here. We are. Yeah. Okay. So this is this is there used to be four Traffic lights one on each corner. Yeah, and now as you can see it is all gone and Actually, if you if you look at these tiles closely, you can even see Where they filled in the tiles. Yeah, where the traffic lights used to be. Yeah So there used to be a huge again protective island right here on this corner. Oh, look at that Yeah, and this is that's gone and there used to be another protective island on the other corner We'll go around it again. This is amazing. It's sort of like a Non-roundabout roundabout. Yeah Because you can just keep going around and around and almost all of it is Cyclists and there's lots of stuff going on here. Yeah. Yeah, okay See he was supposed to yield. Yeah, but didn't I guess I guess in practice things always That was fun. Okay


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. Welcome back on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. तो आप देख हैं, see language video series in Hindi. और इस वीडियो में जो तोपिक हम दिसकस करेंगे वो है आरे. तो सब से पहले हम देखेंगे की आरे की रिक्वार में क्या है, दैन उसके ताइज क्या क्या होता है, तो आपको लूप के बारे में सारी चीजे पहले से पता हो ना जोरी है, कि बिना लूप के आप आरे निपलमेंट नहीं कर सकते हैं. तो ये सारी मेरी दीटेल्स हैं, e-mail, whatsapp number.  यह यह चान तब टग बाज है. अप आप इस ऱाग है. नद बाज वऱद कराई, दे आप चो फ़रन ल्जाता, है तो दे शालग ऱी, दश्वार के नहीं दे साटॉग. आब आप प्रशवाह जाँगे अप प्रशेन चफ़ेगा आप आप अईब आडवाथ आप अगब, ॐंईद of ॐरे ओग अगभ अगभ आप आप गभईईखात आप आप आप यहूँटग में अप आप प्रशेँ प्शाद को में वैसाशाह तो सवर अप प्रशीष कर स if we store more than one value in a variable then it only stores the last value that is one variable can store one value at a particular time so now let's see it practically so I have included a header file and main and in it I have declared a variable now if I assign 5 in A then it will print 5 if I have written A equals to 10 then what happened? I have stored two values at a particular time in this variable in this variable I have stored two values at a particular time so what happened? first it will store 5 then it will store 10 so when we are storing 10 in A then will 5 be available or will it be overrided? so you would say it will be overrided so what is the conclusion from this? that one variable can only hold one value at a particular time so the first point is the same if we store more than one value in a variable then it only stores the last value that is one variable can store one value at a particular time now let's talk about the second point so the second point is that we can store more than one value into more than one variable at same time so the second point is that if you want to store a lot of values then you have to make that many variables so A equals to 5 and B equals to 10 so at one time 5 is stored and 10 is stored so it is absolutely correct that when you want to store a lot of values then you have to make a lot of variables but now what will be the problem? imagine that I want to store 100 values there are 100 students in one class and I want to store the marks of those 100 students or making 100 variables will be an easy approach you will not say it because you will take a lot of time to declare a variable then you will have to assign a value and use it in printf so you will have to type a different name of each variable so to resolve this problem if we want to store a lot of values then we don't have to make a lot of variables so we will focus on the third point but in case of array we can store more than one value in a single variable at the same time and this is what we saw in the third point all elements of array store under a single variable so now what will array do? it will provide you with a facility that you can store a lot of values under the same variable so how it can be done? so what will we do for that? we will declare like this so this is array declaration this is array declaration and here the name of array can be any name the names of the variable you used to use will be applied for the array name but this variable we have declared in the form of array its specialty is store 100 integers under the same time and the 100 integers will be accessible through A variable okay now let's move ahead first let's take a type there are three types available 1D array, 2D array, 3D array so in this video I will tell you about 1D array and in the upcoming videos you will learn about 2D and 3D so 1D array basically what it says collection of more than one elements so 1D array basically is one dimensional it will be one row in which you can store a lot of values then 2D array is collection of more than one 1D arrays so here basically like in mathematics you make matrix so what you do is you create a collection of rows and columns so how you can create the same collection in 2D array so when we have to make a lot of 1D arrays then we can convert it collectively to 2D array and same with 3D array it is collection of more than one 2D array okay so when we will discuss 2D, 3D in detail then you will understand but in this video you will understand 1D array properly so let's move ahead now 1D array declaration so I have already told you first we have to use data type then we will use the name of array and in square bracket what you have to mention is size so you can see three examples first, second and third so first integer array is made whose size is 10 then float array is made whose size is 10 then character array is made whose size is also 10 variables name is different and data type is different size can also be different it is not necessary that every array size is 10 size will depend on how many values you have stored okay now how much memory will be allocated it will depend on which data type so if you have 16 bit compiler then in integer there are 20 bytes if you have 32 bit compiler then in integer there are 40 bytes this is only difference in int if you use any compiler in float then if you have to store 10 value then every block will get 40 bytes and in character one block gets 1 byte so now if we are making 10 block then how many bytes will we get? 10 bytes so you can read the note below we can declare any type of array so you can create any type of array okay now this is memory allocation so for example if I declare an array int a of 10 so what will be the name of array? a this is name of array through which this whole memory will be represented so the name of this whole memory is a every block's name will be a total number of blocks will be 10 so now you will say that every block's name is a so how will we identify them uniquely so for that we use index so first block's index is 0 second block's index is 1 then 2, 3, 4 up to size minus 1 so if the size of array is 10 so last index will be 9 so it is written below index is used to access location of an array uniquely so how will we write its examples so if I want to store a value on last location then what I have written a of 9 equals to 50 so 50 will be stored on 9th index so this location will be stored and your value of 50 will be stored so now you will understand how we will access the individual location of an array you have to use the name of an array so what we will write between the square packet is index so it is written in the comment assign 50 at 9th index of array so if you want to assign on any other index then you will mention that index now you will say that we have to write different variables so when you input from the user then you don't have to write indexes again and again we will iterate a loop and that loop will generate different indexes because the name of an array is the same we have to change only index so now I will tell you practically how we will read an array through the same variable and we don't have to write the name and index again and again it will automatically generate then if you want to assign any value of an array in any other variable then look here X is a variable and what we have to assign is the value available on the third index of an array so third index means this location so on this location the value available on this location will be assigned in X variable so you already know that on the right hand side it always assigns its value to the left hand side so you can read the comment assign value of third index of array into X so in this way you will understand how to declare an array memory is allocated in this way so you will understand that and how the actual implementation of memory is is explained what is the index it tells you that we will use index to access different locations so the name of an array will remain the same and for individual locations we use individual indexes now let's talk about initialization if we want to assign any value in an array then how we will do it so initialization means assignment of values at the time of variable creation so if we look at a small example if I write int a equals to 50 so this statement is known as initialization that I made a variable a and assigned it 50 so what we are discussing here that if you make an array then how you will initialize values so there are 3 statements valid so first is int a5 equals to 1,2,3,4,5 so now you have to use curly basis to assign value so size 5 was there so we have stored 5 values if you keep size blank and initialize then this will also be okay but if you keep size blank in this case if you keep size blank and value is not initialized then this statement is not okay this is invalid so if size blank is there it means you have to assign value because the value you will assign you will know the size of the array and in c programming you have to mention the size of the array otherwise you will not know how many memory you have to allocate now this is also invalid that size 2 is there and you have stored more than size so this will also show the error so it is also not okay so size is more and less value will be initialized so this is okay so what will happen here 1st or 2nd index will be assigned and remaining blocks will be assigned so this way you can initialize values in array now let's talk about how to read and print the array so I told you that we will not have to use index again and again we will trade a loop and in the beginning of the video I told you that when you will read the array then you need to be familiar with the loop so I hope those who are watching this video have already read the loop and if those who have not studied the loop and are beginners then in the video description there is a playlist link available on the first number so open the playlist there are 3-4 videos of the loop then you will understand then you will understand the array properly so now how many times we have rotated the loop 10 times it started from 0 to 9 because what is written in the condition i less than 10 so when it will be 10 then it will be false means it will be true till 9 so 10 to 9 means 10 times every time what is written here is a of i so a is fixed the name of the array so first i will be 0 so it will be a0 then i will be plus plus so i value will be 1 so first value will be a0 index then it will be a1 index then it will be a2 index so now you will understand if we want to store data in the bulk then using the array is beneficial because through the same variable we can store many values and we do not have to write the statements again and again we can repeat it through the loop and similar to reading you will not run the loop for printing from 0 to less than 10 till 10 and here we will print a of i so again first it will be a0 index then it will be a1 index and so on so this was the theoretical explanation now we will go on the practical implementation so i will tell you a program by implementing it so that you can understand whatever theory i have explained so let's go to our slide so i told you the need of array what is the requirement the types we have picked so we have covered the declaration memory allocation initialization and how we can read and print it so first i will tell you the practical implementation and then we will implement it so now i have declared array so first i will tell you the initialization values initialize so this is 5 and in this way you can initialize values now i have put values in array so i don't need to take input from user i can run it so i have to get these values displayed in output so first i have written printf array contains so it will be as it is printed after that i have written it will be as equals to 0 i less than 5 i plus plus and with this for loop i have written printf for which will print the elements in array and i have declared the variable so loop will run from 0 to 4 so first it will print the value of a0 index then a1, a2, a3, a4 total 5 values will be printed so i have saved it now let's run it array contains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 okay now if we go back to our ppt so this initialization you must have understood in the first statement now let's validate if this is valid or not so now let's blank it the size is nothing but i have put 5 values so the size of this will be 5 if i add one more element then loop will have to run one more time so that all the values will be printed on your screen so let's execute the compile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 the size of the array is decided and it is working properly now let's declare an array b and it doesn't mention the size nor initialize it okay now let's just compile i am not running it there is an error on compilation time storage size of b size of b isn't unknown sorry isn't known so you didn't mention the size of b nor initialize the value so there is an error here when there is no error on the top statement because we initialize the values here okay so this will be invalid so i have justified this so we have run this as well run this as well now there are 2 things left let's run them again if size is 2 and if you initialize the value then what will happen see there is an error again too many initializers for int2 so size is 2 and you have assigned the value so this will be invalid so it means we have tried this as well so as i told you and now let's try that the size is big let's say size is 20 and the value is 6 so now it will run properly so 6 values are displayed there is no error so the things i have told you theoretically as it is working now you must have understood that we can store many values in the same variable so this last point you must have understood but in case of array we can store more than 1 value in single variable at same time so we have to do this so in single variable and in the same time we have to store many values and process them and we have not written printf that we have to print value we are writing 6 printf neither we have used 6 variables instead we have used loop so without loop the survival of array is not possible so first read loop and then read the array so programming is basically a sequence if we miss one topic then you won't understand the next topic so we have already covered this so now the last part is 2 programs if there are many values available in array then how to print their sum and secondly how to print the values available in array so with the help of these programs you will know how to input from the user so first program write calculate sum of values load in array and array is very popular when you will find a job you will complete the data and when you work in industry you have to manage the data in bulk so the array is the most popular data structure so its name can be different so in some places we use it in list form in some places as it is we use it in array form so it depends on the technology so in every technology the term can be changed so in C we call it array means collection so the meaning of array in English is collection so now we will input from the user 10 values and we will print their sum on screen so I have written the size of array 10 so to calculate we have to initialize it from 0 now I am writing printf enter 10 values after that a loop will be iterated which will go 10 times and now with this loop we have to repeat the scanf because we have to input values from the user and you can write a of i so printf enter 10 values on screen this loop will go 10 times so you know how the loop works so when the loop goes 10 times it will start from 0 and go up to 9 so first value will be stored in a0 then i will be 1 so next value will be stored in a1 so you can see the name of array will always remain the same index will automatically change so whatever value we input it will go to different index and it will be stored okay now we have to calculate sum so I am iterating another loop so i equals to 0 i less than 10 and i++ and in this loop we will write s equals to s plus a of i so whenever you have to process the array you have to keep in mind that to patch the index the loop counter variable you can use it if you have written j or k you can use it too so in the s variable whatever values are available it will be added after the loop is finished you have to print the sum so you can write sum equals to 0 i less than okay now tell me will this printf repeat with the loop so your answer should be no because with this for loop and when it is not based on loop it only repeats one statement and to print the sum do we need to repeat the printf you will say no because if sum is a single value we can print it through a single printf for that we don't need to use the loop so let's run this so I will enter 10 times 1 so we can validate our output so sum equals to 10 so we can validate our output sum equals to 10 so it means our program is working properly now you want me to display the array along with the sum then you can do 2-3 things what you can do first is to calculate the sum for this you can write it here so you can cut it from here put the curly braces here and paste it here paste it here and cut the scanf from here paste it here so this is also possible so what will happen with this now this for loop will read the value so scanf will store value a of i on the position and it will be added in the S variable so 10 values are read and their addition is stored in the S variable when this loop will end then printf will display the value of S on the screen now you want me to display the input in the array those values are also displayed on the screen so for that you can write a printf array contains and then implement a loop and then put printf in this loop and this will display the values of array on the screen so again this loop will repeat the same printf there is no curly basis with the loop and when all the elements will be printed then this single printf will display the sum so let's execute this again so now I will enter all the values so look array contains all the 2 prints are 10 times and sum print is 20 so if you have a requirement to display the array and in the calculation you can do that you can see how we maintained many values through the same variable now you will say that this is working for 10 if we have to process 20-30 values then there is no problem you can do the size of the array and whatever loop you have written run it for 20 times so now it will work for 20 values so look how easy it is if I say to make 10 variables then you can read them and print them as soon as I say to declare 20 variables then you can change this program as soon as possible you can say no because we take so much time to make 20 variables so I have changed the program by modifying the size so the array becomes very beneficial when you process the data in the bulk so now if we execute this program so now I will enter 4 so you will see that I will enter these values for 20 times so I will do this 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 20 values are printed so the input I have made is above after that the array contains 20 values and after that 20-4, 80 so in this way you can easily modify the size of the array so I hope you have understood how we process the array now let's see the last program print array values and reverse order okay so print array values and reverse order so I will tell you both that in the order in which we have printed the input of the value user and also printed the reverse order so let's take size 10 now we don't need some variable here also size 10 okay let's remove this base because we don't want to make some we want to repeat the same statement okay now array contains so this will be printed okay I will copy this and paste it again and here it is written array reverse okay from here we have taken backslash and removed it so what will happen to it after every digit it will be comma printed and here we will paste slash and from which cursor will shift to new line here also we will paste slash and from here we will paste slash and after percent D so after every digit it will be comma printed so now see both the loops are going from 0 to 10 so this is the order in which you will input will be printed in that order we have to print the reverse too so what we have to do is start from 9 and run the loop greater than equals to 0 and minus minus okay I will tell you one more way of this so first let's see that we have started loop from last so we know that size 10 is above array so what will be the last index size minus 1 means 9 so we have started from 9 so what will be the first value which will be printed so it will print a of 8 then 7 and where it will go till the time the value is 0 as soon as it will be minus 1 then it will be terminated so let's execute this so see 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 so now see array contains first we are printing in increasing order and second array is printing reverse in which 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 okay now you will say now you will say that I have to run the loop in this way I don't want to change I have to run the loop from 0 to 10 and still it will be reverse printed so there is no problem so what will you do for that so you can perform the calculation here finally the result should be an index value so see i is initially 0 so what will be this 9 minus 0 means 9th index will be printed then i will be plus plus and 1 will be 1 here i will be 1 so next time what will it be 9 minus 1 means 8 then i will be 2 so 9 minus 2 means 7 so when we will run it again you will see your values will be printed in reverse order so this is the second way to process the elements of array so in the first output input is coming in the same form and second array reverse will be in reverse order but the array reverse will be in reverse order so i have told you two ways to process the array so how to do that so in this way we completed the basic of array so first we covered the theoretical part and after that i have told you these two programs and the theory i have told you the practical implementation so i hope you have understood all this no doubt please communicate with me so that i can solve your problem and don't forget to watch the next video because in lecture number 16 i have listed many programs related to 1d array which are listed in front i will tell you by implementing them so we will discuss all the programs one by one i will implement them and i will try to explain and after that the next video will be about 2d array and 3d array so follow the whole video series so that you can learn more about programming so i hope you have enjoyed the sea language video series which you are following if you have any problem please communicate with me and share it with your friends so that you can read the sea language properly if you are a beginner so thank you for watching this video


Hello, I'm back in my bed right now. I might switch back and forth between this and the green screen because I Don't really always know what to put on there and today. I have no idea what to do there But today I want to talk about obsidian Which I'm probably going to put this video somewhere like in the middle of the schedule I'm not just gonna have it released on Friday like a month from now because I Don't know I just I just wanted to throw this in the middle of something not make it that big a deal because this is one of the many Many twilight clones that I bought a couple of years ago like remember I had that giant pile of angel Romance young adult novels and this one I also threw in there just because this one is basically just twilight But with aliens instead and I bought it specifically because it looked Hilariously bad like the idea of this genre with aliens just sounds just so stupid that I would have a blast reading through it and making fun of it and Honestly, I would say that overall it is okay, you know, it's it's an okay story I would put it slightly below hush hush now if you've seen my review of hush hush Which you should don't link to it then you would know that that series I didn't think was great But I thought it was decent overall because there were parts of it that I genuinely Enjoyed like no joke no bullshit. I genuinely liked some parts of it I liked a lot of the story beats outside of the romance stuff. I thought that was good I liked the main character because she has an actual personality and Well, there are a few other smaller things but you should watch my review if you want more info on that and obsidian is kind of the same there's a few things I like a few things I dislike and Overall, I don't know. I just thought it was okay. I didn't read the whole series I only read this first book and I'm just gonna go over it not an exhaustive detail But in some detail so there will be spoilers if that bothers you Check out now. Let's get started. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long So at the start of this one the main character whose name is Katie Although sometimes they also call her cat. So whichever one of those you prefer She moves to a small town in West Virginia, which is here After her father's death and it's a couple of years after her father's death But her and her mom just needed a fresh start so they've moved in and it literally starts with them unpacking boxes and everything And then she needs to head to the grocery store.    It's a little bit more believable that they would get along later You know, it's more believable that they could get over this first impression and go on to like each other So some of the later things that happen in this book are just more believable and I did like that on the minus side He's not really being that terrible to her But the book still treats it like he's being that terrible to her because you know again Katie leaves in tears and So this just makes her look a little bit whiny, you know, it's not like he hits on any specific Insecurities or anything that she has it's just he's rude to her and says she looks like a little kid And I don't know if it went forward and it mentioned that she hates looking so young for one reason or another then Sure, I guess this would be more understandable, but that doesn't really come up and also He never stops being an ass to her which is also a downside here So it it's just it's just odd, you know, you'd think he would be at least a little bit nicer And there's a few moments where he's nicer certainly But overall he is still just a rude person and an unpleasant person to be around so and That really contributes to their just their lack of chemistry Which I'll go into a little bit more as this goes on, but they just they have very little so while Katie's at the store She runs into Dee who happens to be Damon's sister and the two of them actually strike up a friendship because For whatever reason the first person you meet in a new town has to be come your best friend I don't know why that's a thing, but it is a thing and they start Gardening together, which I was actually I was genuinely taken aback by that because apparently Katie has an actual hobby You know, that's something that makes her seem like an actual person and not a total blank slate She likes to garden and her new house doesn't have one so she creates one and it's it's great It's cool and her other big hobby that this book talks about is I'm not making this up She reviews books on the internet that is I'm not gonna lie. I laughed when I read that it was is pretty funny that She also does basically what I do and there is one moment later on in the book where Damon finds out about it and he asked Katie to see some of her stuff and She is reluctant to show him and I just felt very seen What does it look like?  You film yourself I took a deep and slow breath. You make it sound like I'm doing a live perp show or something Damon made a sound in the back of his throat. Is that what you're doing?  I want to watch it. No The idea of him watching me geek out of the books I bought in the last week horrified me There was no way he'd understand. Yeah, I feel I feel very seen But at the same time I feel very attacked So some more stuff happens Damon continues just being rude to her and trying to push her away and she's not sure why she thinks he's just kind of a mean person or whatever and Later on he winds up saving her from a bear attack and she doesn't understand what happens there She just kind of sees this flash of light and then passes out for a while and she Doesn't remember what happened, but Damon just tells her yeah We scared off the bear, but you passed out from fear. So I carried you back home and there's also a few other small things Which she sees which don't seem possible like she sees these hands look sort of see-through transparent at a few points and she's a very freaked out and This is something that I kind of liked because she has an actual reason to fear that she's hallucinating and to fear that She's going crazy because her father died of brain cancer and before he died The tumors in his brain caused him to hallucinate stuff and so she has actual reason to be afraid here that is Very very good That's a very neat detail to put in and it could actually make the character feel a little more real But at the same time They mentioned it literally once and it never comes up again. So if they had Had her actually Investigate Damon and Dee a little bit more to try and figure out what's going on with them to try and prove to herself That she's not crazy and she's not seeing things then I think that would have worked really well And I know that that's just such a standard part of this genre in particular that I'm kind of glad the author skipped over a bunch of it, but at the same time Like you had an opportunity to do something kind of neat there and you didn't so eventually like more than a hundred pages in Katie is saved by a man who attacks her at night and he's like asking about Damon and Dee and she doesn't know what's going on and eventually Damon saves her and Long story short it turns out that they're both aliens His and apparently when he first saved her from the bear his power kind of left a trace on her Which allowed other aliens to track her down you see Damon and Dee as well as a bunch of other people that live in this area are Aliens and they're from a planet called Luxon and they call themselves Lux and they are beings of pure light, which I don't know how that makes sense But they can move faster than the speed of light Somehow and they can take on human form somehow and then they can also do stuff like stop time or pass through solid objects somehow it really doesn't make that much sense when you think about it and the villains are these aliens called the Aram who are beings of like darkness, you know, they they like to suck out to the powers of the Lux and they I don't know they can't come out during the daytime because it'll kill them and Damon fights a bunch of the Aram because he's one of the strongest Lux apparently and you know all of the Lux fight Aram But Damon in particular fights them. So in other words, he is Damon and he's the fighter of the night men I am not making any of this up. That is 100% true and I don't know if that was done on purpose or on accident But either way it's extremely funny to me Now from this point forward, it's pretty much what you would expect from this type of story Damon and Katie grow closer some Aram up here And Damon has to protect Katie from them In fact, like he heals her a bunch at one point and it comes up that hey You're gonna have this trace on you for a while So you got to stick by my side for a while and I figured that would be the rest of the book But no, it's only a couple of pages and they mentioned yeah a few weeks past And then it's just over and then other stuff happens, which is a little weird and then they you know fight some more Katie goes to prom with a different dude her prom date tries to sexually assault her Damon saves her again Which makes Katie seem a little bit too much like a damsel in distress for my taste which is annoying But at the same time she does wind up killing one of the Aram later on like apparently obsidian will kill them So she stabs one with an obsidian knife and it kills him.  This is a self-contained book Like I know that there's a bunch of sequels and spin-offs like I think it's five books in the main series And then there's one prequel about Damon's brother and then there's Two or three spin-offs which are from Damon's point of view So It's nice that this first one is self-contained and I don't feel locked into reading all this other stuff And I just want to go over some more more of the positives here real quick So positives Damon and Katie don't confess their love at all in this book You know, like you would expect them to like know each other for less than a week and then they're like, I love you I would die for you. I would do anything for you. You are the light of my life You know, that's sort of crap But but they don't in this book at all like even by the end they really like each other and they've grown much closer and they do have a bond there but They they don't say that they're in love and even better This book takes place over the course of months not like two weeks or something the way a lot of others in this genre do for whatever reason Like it starts off in the summertime and by the end it's November at some point So it is much more believable and much more realistic that people could form a bond like that over time and Hell they aren't even together every waking moment of this book, you know Like Katie spends a lot of time with other people that she meets in this new town and she spends time with D And she spends time with her mom and so it's nice that it's not just the Damon and Katie show the entire time even though they are the two leads The lore surrounding the Lux and their planet Luxon is kind of neat like we don't get that much detail about them, but we find out that apparently their planet is 23 billion light years away and keep in mind our observable universe is only 13 billion light years Away from us that we can see so they're 10 billion light years beyond that So they're just so far away from us that it it feels crazy And I did kind of like that and I feel like Maybe the later books will go more into that and that'd be kind of interesting In fact, that's something that this has in common with Pashash It has a lot of things in common with it but one of the main things being that the lore is kind of interesting and It's a lot better than just saying like hey vampires exist here or something like that which a lot of Just a lot of fantasy, especially urban fantasy tends to do so I Just I like that, you know, they didn't go super far with it. It's not amazing lore But they went they put in a little bit of effort. So I enjoyed that And it also makes sense for the aliens to be a secret here Because we find out that the government actually knows about them and is watching them But they aren't really doing anything beyond that and the aliens are essentially refugees from their home planet and Even though they're extremely powerful and they seem like they could maybe take over the earth that they really tried Which does kind of annoy me like I feel if you're gonna do aliens Then don't give them all these crazy powers if you want all these crazy powers Just do some sort of supernatural creature if you want aliens just have them have advanced technology and leave it at that But whatever that's just me But it actually makes sense why they would want to stay quiet and keep a low profile because they're just They're just here after their last home was destroyed and they're just trying to live their lives You know, they aren't trying to take over.  So it's one of the few urban fantasy novels I've ever come across where it actually makes sense for the Fantasy or sci-fi elements to stay a secret and I liked that And I did like how Damon actually has kind of a reason for being rude and trying to push Katie away See specifically He had a brother named Dawson. So they were Damon D and Dawson because apparently Luxe children are always born in threes and we meet one or two other pairs of Luxe children or not pairs of sets of Luxe children They're all they're all triplets and their names always start with the same letter for some reason, which whatever but anyways point is Dawson Actually also had a human girlfriend at one point But being around her too much left traces on her, you know And so the Aram wound up finding them and coming after them and both Dawson and his girlfriend were killed and Like I said, there's a prequel novel about that I don't know if it's any good or not, but it does at least give a reason for Damon to Want to stay away from Katie even though he does really like her I also liked just this one scene near the end of the book where In order to get rid of the trace they figure That Damon and Katie could just have sex and that would get rid of it and they don't wind up having sex They just they just come very close. We're not gonna go into too much detail about that But they come very close to it and it actually does work It does he winds up absorbing some of the trace energy that he left on her But it also sends out a bunch of energy, which just breaks all the light bulbs in Katie's house, which I Just thought that was a funny scene and it was clearly meant to be funny So hey, just there are good things about this book But now let's go into the positives for or let's go into the negatives for a minute So the biggest thing that drags this book down is just that Katie has no personality whatsoever Which is more or less what I expect from this genre But at the same time it felt almost like she was going to have it at the beginning because it mentioned Hey, I have multiple hobbies and hey, I kind of miss my dad and like okay They might have something in there But then I look back on this book which I only finished a couple of days ago And I try to think of anything about her that I remember that stands out that is well-defined and I Can't think of anything You know, I read hush hush Over a year ago and I still remember stuff about the main character Nora You know, I remember that She misses her dad so much that she's not willing to tell her mom about all of the crazy Supernatural stuff she's seeing because her mom will get freaked out and they're gonna wind up having to move and she will lose The last connection to her dad that she has which is the house they live in like I remember that I remember she becomes Kind of addicted to evil magic in the last book and that makes her do some Unpleasant things to her friends and I remember that like I remember a couple of things about her even if she's not the most amazing protagonist ever written but Katie I just I straight up don't know anything about this girl The villains and my villains.  So there's a little bit there, but we spend like 10 pages on that entire Plot point. So it doesn't it doesn't really mean that much the the villains just Aren't they're not villains. They're just a thing that exists Katie and Damon like I mentioned earlier Just have no or no chemistry whatsoever And this is probably the biggest issue with this book as a whole because if you're gonna focus on romance this much You need these two people to have chemistry and they need to really feel like Yeah, they're into each other and it just doesn't seem that way because like I said Damon is just really rude to her He's just an ass and he never really stops being that, you know He he calls her kitten at the beginning as like an insult and then he continues using it as a pet name for her throughout which is just odd to begin with but also extremely condescending and just I Don't know it doesn't really make sense why she would be into him other than that He's hot and I will say he has a little bit of personality like I've mentioned, but It just doesn't really feel like the two of them would click together that much and this is probably largely because Katie is such a blank slate, but Who knows it's just it's just a big issue and overall Like I said, the series is just okay, you know It's not great or amazing, but there's parts of it. I genuinely liked and it never really Stuck with me because there's parts that are really stupid and drag the whole thing down So like I said, it's slightly below hush hush and because there's just no Really hilariously bad stuff here and it's not bad in any ways that are like just interesting to look at and pick apart I just don't feel like reading the rest of the series You know, like I said, there's four more books of this and then possibly reading the spin-offs. That's a It's just a bit of a time commitment, you know and I don't really feel like doing a deep dive into either this book or the others because There just wouldn't be all that much to critique about it. You know, there wouldn't be that much to say so Overall, I guess if you are looking for something in this genre if you're looking for a young adult supernatural romance Or just young adult romance in general. I Feel like there's better examples than this but at this there's not a lot of better examples So I I guess there's basically just hush hush if you're looking for something's but this specific But it wouldn't be a total waste of your time to read this one, you know Like I know the author Jennifer L. Armentrout has written other stuff Like I've seen some of her other stuff on Goodreads and such and I haven't read any further books So I can't say for certain if she's a great author, but This one does feel like it was either written by someone who's not a very good writer But they poured their heart and soul into every word or it's written by someone who is a pretty good writer But they just got lazy with it and I'm not sure which one it is like it could very well be either one But or maybe neither. I don't know. I I'm Not basing this on a whole lot of evidence. It just comes across that way to me So I don't know maybe the rest of the obsidian series is great. Maybe it's terrible I don't feel like reading it. Could you convince me to read it as in if this video gets a shitload of views? Would I be willing to go out and read some more of this? Probably that's That's about it. So I'll see you later. 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