What is fear?
Is it the knowledge and realization of a concept that violates our sense of safety?
On the surface, yes.
Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is
dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
But what about a phobia?
What about a compulsive disorder?
What about anxiety - or paranoia?
The complexities of fear are a construct that have woven their way into our species and
our expectations of civilization, intrinsic to our DNA - weaved into our very fabric of
existence.
Fear was the soul motivation that made our species so resourceful - so adaptable.
It's why we tell stories of the beastial things that lurk in the shadows of the forest.
It's why we sit around campfires and warn of the things that go bump in the night.
But what if Fear was a creature, in and of itself?
Well - of course, the SCP Foundation has got us covered - so let me introduce you to SCP-2006,
the true meaning of fear.
Hello internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life's
Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I'll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as we curiously ask the
question, What If SCP-2006 Was Real?
Roll the clip.
That footage was from the 1953 - independently made black and white sci-fi horror movie,
Robot Monster - widely considered one of the worst movies ever made.
In it, an all powerful robot alien attempts to destroy the few remaining survivors of
humanity with essentially, stock footage from 1950s creature-feature flicks.
It's funny how that works, isn't it?
But really, when we look at the development of horror cinema throughout the last century
- we find stark similarities with the conceptual function of SCP-2006, and the way that modernity
has encapsulated a halcyon presentation of horror.
Let's dial the theoretical concepts down for a moment though, and take a look at what
this guys all about.
As the record states, SCP-2006 is a Keter class anomalous spherical entity roughly 50
centimeters in diameter when in its default state.
SCP-2006's stated goal is to cause feelings of fear and/or horror in as many humans as
possible.
To accomplish this purpose, 2006 possesses the ability to change its shape, mass, volume,
density, chemical structure, and voice to any form that it desires.
Currently, there is no known way to damage SCP-2006.
The extent of its shapeshifting abilities are unknown, and are currently thought to
be unlimited.
Uh - that's kinda… worrying, right?
It's kind of like if the entire plot of Cabin in the Woods was contained and wrapped
up in one, terrifying package.
Although, the real crux of SCP-2006 is in it's special containment procedures.
It is to be contained at Site 118 in an airtight containment cell, and must be constantly monitored
for all changes in form - because, as we previously stated - it's shapeshifting abilities could
potentially be unlimited.
Strangely enough, all personnel coming into contact with SCP-2006 are required to enroll
in an acting course with a focus on expressing fear and surprise.
Every month, 2006 is to be shown at least one new extremely low-quality horror or science
fiction movie containing horror elements.
Low-quality is the key word there, and it's very important.
All interaction with the entity must confirm that SCP-2006 continues to believe that said
works demonstrate a superb grasp of horror.
And that in itself may be a terrifying prospect for horror aficionados - but nevertheless,
this facade is exactly what's keeping us all safe.
Essentially, it's primary function is to absorb, articulate, and emulate fear - but
thankfully for us, the scariest thing in its current repertoire is 1953's Robot Monster
- which, isn't scary at all.
Sorry Phil Tucker.
But herein lies the real fear of SCP-2006, in its ability to discern precisely what makes
our skin crawl.
Thankfully for us, although tentatively - it's contained within the Foundation - but in this
hypothetical situation, SCP-2006 has gotten out - and instead of the primitive examples
of bad b-movie 1950s horror to work with - it has an entire genre, a world of terrifying
inconsistencies - and over 7 billion fearful human minds to understand the true meaning
of fear.
And as some of you may be aware, there's a lot to be scared of right now.
As Dr. Randall Owings put it, the director of Site 118, explaining in a letter to Foundation
personnel not to become complacent with SCP-2006 -- Imagine if it broke containment and found
out what really scared people.
Imagine if it saw the horror and fear of war, or the concepts of paranoia or phobias common
to each and every human being.
Imagine if it found the true horror of a nuclear holocaust or an XK-Class scenario.
The question that we're really asking isn't What If SCP-2006 Was Real -- it's What If
Our Worst Nightmares Were Real?
Much like how Stephen King's It - through Pennywise the Clown, or the Deadlights for
the horror pedants amongst you, used fear as a myriad of weaponry - so too would SCP-2006.
On that note, you can also count Pennywise the Clown into 2006's horror canon.
Are you scared yet?
We'd have Hellraisers Pinhead, Halloween's Michael Myers.
Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, The Bride of Chucky, Leatherface, Norman Bates,
Minnie Castevet, Annie Wilkes, The Babadook, The Candyman, Samara Morgan, Jack Torrance,
Dracula, Pazuzu, Black Phillip, freakin Hannibal Lecter.
The Thing - for crying out loud.
The Xenomorph.
The Allied Mastercomputer.
The Child Catcher.
Randall Flagg - who is probably Nyarlathotep - and thus every Lovecraftian entity would
shriek alongside him.
Triangle Head.
Creepers.
Jeepers Creepers and demon Jeeps.
Demon Headmasters.
Demons in general.
All of them.
Hellfire and brimstone.The entire collection and catalogue of horror fiction and fandom
since the dawn of humanity would be alive and writhing across the planet - because we
remembered, and we recorded it, and we made it into a storybook or a blockbuster motion
picture - and SCP-2006 would eat it up like Bruce Bogtrotter eats a chocolate cake.
But who knows, maybe it is real - and it already got out - and all of those horror icons paled
in comparison to what it actually saw.
Who knows -- 2018 was a pretty weird year after all.
Well, there we have it - why don't you let us know your thoughts in the comment section
down below.
Before we depart though, let's read out some of your more creative comments from over
the past few days.
Prince Jordel says -- What if there was no clip?
-- Well, Prince Jordel, that's a real possibility - and that's a fear that I live with on
a day to day basis.
Thankfully, for the most part, there is a clip.
And that makes me happy.
Roll the clip.
JurassicmuffetAdventures Rex says -- What if the asteroids never hit the dinosaur.
-- Uh… there's something about this sentence that's not quite right.
I'm just going to leave this one here… .. hm.
And finally, Super Dog man says -- What if Slappy fought chucky -- and, well, that's
an easy one.
Chucky, hands down.
He'd just have to say Karru marri odonna loma molonu karrano - and it'd be a done
deal.
Or, is it the other way around?
Oh no.
Well - unfortunately folks, I'm gonna have to head off - but cheers for sticking around
all the way until the end.
If you were a fan of this video, make sure to hit that thumbs up button, as well as that
subscribe bell, and we'll be seeing you in the next one.
As per usual, I've been your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - you've been
watching Life's Biggest Questions - and until next time, you take it easy.
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Top 10 Scary British Superstitions - Duration: 9:10.
Hello and welcome back to The Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am excited to be giving you a little slice
of my homeland as we talk about the Top 10 Scary British Superstitions ! We are a superstitious
bunch us Brits – with thousands of years of history coming up with weird rules to live
by!
Stay tuned, but before we get into the video I want to ask you guys what superstitions
you have in your country.
Let me know your traditions in the comments section down below!
Also while you are down there why don't you hit that thumbs up button and subscribe
if you haven't yet!
Also please do stick around to the end of the video to some responses to your comments
on a previous video.
10 - The Upside-down Horseshoe In the UK, horseshoes are a big symbol of
good luck.
This is for a number of reasons – one being that they are made from iron and forged in
fire which makes them representative of something strong and unbreakable.
Goblins and demons are said to be afraid of iron.
Also, horses don't seem to feel pain when horseshoes are hammered to their feet, which
led many to believe they are magical.
A lot of people hang horseshoes in our outside their homes in the UK, it is also customary
to give a bride a horseshoe on her wedding day.
The two prongs are supposed to collect and store good luck.
Great.
Sure….
But you don't want that horseshoe to invert…..ever.
Conversely, An upside-down horseshoe is terrible luck in Britain – any luck stored would
immediately be poured out and lost.
Others say an upside down horseshoe would attract negativity.
9 - New Shoes on the table Anyone seen Blood Brothers the musical?
I am pretty sure it is the only musical Danny has seen!
Anyway one of the major omens in the musical that foreshadows the death of the twins is
new shoes on the table.
This is a classic British superstition.
Shoes have a lot of superstitions and cultural implications across the world, but in the
UK new shoes on the table is a terrible omen that invites bad luck into your life.
Some people believe it signifies that you will have a fight with someone you love, others
say it is a death omen – which is probably linked to the tradition of placing miners
old shoes on a table in the event of their death at work.
Cheery.
8 - Never Open an Umbrella indoors Oooof never!
Don't do it!
Opening a brolly, as we call it in the UK, is a sure fire way to invite bad luck…in
fact they say opening an umbrella indoors means that bad luck will rain on you.
Some say it is an insult to the sun god, others say it is an insult to the guardian spirits
of your home.
Opening an umbrella in doors, practically, can cause you ill fortune as you could break
something … but in British superstition in runs much deeper than that.
7 - No Sweeping on New Years This is a Scottish tradition and one that
I observed this year as a precautionary measure.
My friend Denise who is Scottish told me about this one and I did NOT want 2019 bad luck.
Its bad luck to start the new year with a dirty house, mind, you should always take
your bins out and tidy before New Year, but when the clock strikes 12 you should not do
any sweeping, vacuuming or mopping until the 2nd January.
The reason for this is because you will sweep away all of the good luck for the year…which
really isn't what you want.
6 Salt over the shoulder If you spill salt in the UK it is a terrible
omen.
In order to protect yourself from bad luck when you spill salt is to throw some over
your left shoulder.
The reasoning is because , when you spill salt, the devil is watching over.
Throwing salt is said to be in order to get him in the eye and distract him from caysing
you trouble.
If you don't throw the salt….
Well… watch out.
5 Never Pass on the Stairs Stairs can be dangerous if you aren't using
them properly.
I fell down the stairs once and fracture my leg, and lots of older people end up having
falls when climbing up or down.
In the UK, it is bad luck to trip on the stairs…but I guess that just makes sense!
Crossing on the stairs is also terrible luck in the UK for both parties involved.
It suggests that you will come across great conflict in the near future.
I didn't realise it wasn't a thing elsewhere in the world – when I come across people
on the stairs I either walk but up or down so we don't have to cross…and in Canada
people generally looked at me like I was mad.
White table cloth Never leave a white table cloth out overnight
on a table overnight as it is a sign that you will need a shroud in the house in the
near future – a shroud is a traditional burial garment so basically the superstition
is saying that someone will die soon.
Not idea.
Similarly – 13 people should never dine together as the first to lea ve the table
will be the first in the group to die.
3 - Three Drains in a Row NEVER walk over three drains in a row.
In the UK people believe this will bring you terrible terrible luck.
Some have no idea what back luck is coming, just that it simply IS bad luck.
Others say it is a sign that a lot of people will walk over your grave one day.
There is also an old British belief that if you shudder it is because someone is walking
over your Gravestone.
If you DO accidentally walk over three drains, you can remedy the bad luck by spitting on
the last drain, or finding a solitary drain to walk over.
2 - Salute the Magpie Seeing a magpie on its own is a terrible omen
in the UK.
We have a rhyme that applies to the spotting of magpies – one for sorrow, two for joy,
three for a girl, four for a boy - although the original rhyme is One for sorrow, Two
for mirth, Three for a wedding, And four for death.
five for silver / six for gold / seven for a secret / not to be told / eight for heaven
/ nine for hell / ten for devil's own sell.
If you see one magpie, it is an omen of sorrow, four is an omen of death, nine for hell and
of course ten for the devil.
In order to rid yourself of the bad luck associated with seeing magpies, you must salute them.
If you see just one, you must salute and say Hello Mr Magpie, how is your wife.
Good, great, we're all crazy!
Finally, an urban legend, a superstition and a fear at the same time.
1 – The Ravens at the Tower of London Ravens in a lot of cultures are bad omens,
but for the UK, specifically the crown, they are necessary.
Ever since the tower of London has stood, which in some form has been the best part
of a thousand years, there have been ravens there.
We don't know where they came from and why they remain there, but the superstition and
legend is that the tower must house at least six ravens if not the British Monarchy will
fall.
The legend is enduring and was delivered to King Charles II on a need to know basis when
he was going to have them all killed – it was only then he was told the legend, which
must have been passed down through word of mouth for generations, Since the late 1600s
we have been keeping ravens there forcibly!
Today there is an actual Ravenmaster, a Beefeater who's job it is to tend to the captive ravens
at the tower – currently six and a spare!
The current rosta of ravens are Hardey, Thor, Odin, Gwyllum, Cedric, Hugine and Munin.
They all sound like lads.
At one point in history, the Ravens almost did leave the tower!
During World War 2 they couldn't abide the sounds coming from the bombing of London.
Luckily one remained and The UK did not fall, nor did the monarchy.
Phew.
So guys that was the Top 10 Scary British superstitions!
Did you learn something?
Do you guys have similar superstitions in your countries?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
LIKE SHARE INSTA… okay comments from the Top 10 Terrifying Things Astronauts have said..
Kerry Ann said: I love space and learning things like this.
This is right up my street!!? – me too!
Donavin Hagen said: There is life out there!
I find the idea ridiculous that there are billions of stars out there, and not one of
them have a planet like ours.?
Ruben Cornejo said what everyone was thinking when they wrote: Space snake!
WTF!
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A Review of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown - Duration: 14:59.
Despite providing some of the most profound experiences I've had with media of any kind,
there's arguably something of a paradox that exists at the heart of almost all anti-war
war games.
The titles that convey anti-war sentiment, but whose gameplay revolves around the same
kind of militaristic bravado inherent to some of the medium's most straight-ahead gun-fests.
There have been a number of attempts to navigate that conundrum more effectively over the years,
with games exploring less typical genres to highlight the powerlessness of the people
caught in the crossfire—recognising that while there's not anything wrong with violence
or guns in a video game, to incentivise and reward those violent interactions while also
trying to tell the player how terrible they are for carrying them out might come across
as a little disingenuous.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, on the other hand, decides to ignore that train of thought
completely; leaning hard into the dissonance as it sensually fawns over every nook and
cranny of every plane; giving you absolute control over exactly how you're going to
dismantle your foes in the coolest ways possible, contributing to an arbitrary arcade scoring
mechanic… all while using its fake sci-fi conflict between fictional nations about drones
and a princess with a VERY GOOD DOG and a space elevator that the good guys… or bad
guys… want to control… or destroy… all in order to tell us that… war is bad...
but also that pilots should be fighting wars?
It's a lot, but as games like Metal Gear Solid have shown us, your story doesn't
have to be super dour in order to make a salient point about the nature of conflict in the
digital age, for example—you can have some fun with it.
I usually end up cherishing the stories that embrace the absurdity of the medium they find
themselves in.
And with its allusions towards headier themes of the prevalence of civilian casualties even
with the use of unmanned aircraft, or what purpose fighter pilots serve when the jets
fly on their own, you can see the potential narrative throughline between a game like
MGS and Ace Combat – that kind of cold hard military fetishism butting heads with sci-fi
anime nonsense.
Or rather, that's how it should be.
Instead of butting heads, it's perhaps more accurate to say the two things are placed
next to each other and rarely the twain meet.
In reality, Ace Combat feels like it's telling two separate stories – the plot delivered
in-mission through radio transmissions as well as your mechanical interactions of your
mute pilot who ends up leading a squadron of flying prisoners to take down the drones
and the somehow weirder tale of the Erusian federation's development of said drones
using the DNA of… this guy and there's someone calling herself the scrap queen who
gets taken prisoner after flying a drag racer built by her grandpa, all of which apparently
draws upon the lore of this series that somehow dates back to the 1100s, and yet is told entirely
through lengthy, droning expository cutscenes almost completely distanced from your missions.
Said cutscenes make out its characters to be the protagonists for a good chunk of the
game, but on the rare occasion they make their presence known outside of these uninteractive
interludes, they present themselves as enemies to be taken down.
It all meant the narrative of my opposing squadron inevitably drew my sympathies thanks
to my active participation in these unfolding events, but I was never sure if that was the
takeaway the game wanted me to come away with because the cutscenes were telling me one
thing while the missions were telling me something wholly different.
It never struck me as a clever subversion of player allegiances; it felt more like storytelling
so contrived that even the developers weren't on the same page about the fundamentals of
its delivery.
As much as I've joked about it though, the problem isn't a lack of coherency; the tos
and fros of Ace Combat's territorial conflict aren't all that difficult to follow.
The problem is that the overarching narrative's monotonous delivery lacks the bombast that
could at least elevate it above said tedium.
Even with all of that said, however, none of this would be anywhere near as much of
a sticking point to me if the gameplay it distracted from didn't far more convincingly
sell me on Ace Combat's themes of the complicated horrors of war; or, more importantly, if said
gameplay wasn't so utterly, utterly thrilling.
Seriously, it's a rare thing that I'm way more concerned about gameplay spoilers
than story here; some of its set-pieces are so viscerally exciting that I genuinely think
they should be experienced blind.
In my 20 hours of play I craved the end of the cutscenes to get to the mission briefings
that followed—the tantalisingly dense series of maps and objectives that trusted me to
internalise and execute on its layered strategies; whose subtler story of the corruption at the
heart of military hierarchy felt at least somewhat related to what I was actually experiencing.
I got lost in the sea of new planes and weapons at my disposal; realising quickly that the
slightest changes to my loadout could have a drastic impact on the outcome of a sortie.
Most importantly, however, after a couple of missions whose wide-open spaces and predictable
circling of the enemy made me feel like the dogfights were more fun to watch in end-of-level
replays than they were to, well, play, I found myself totally hooked; I could not get enough
of its immensely high-stakes engagements.
These missions, while occasionally frustrating, placed such an emphasis on my own moment-to-moment
decision making that I felt empowered in a way that few games make me feel; and after
pondering why that was, I found that it largely came down to one thing—mission design.
See, if there's a sentiment that sums up the mission design of Ace Combat 7, it's
that restriction breeds creativity.
Instead of constantly adding to your arsenal in order to make you feel like some kind of
badass hero as other combat-themed games might do, the mission designers go the other way;
gradually restricting your access to certain features in order to force mastery of the
systems that remain - those that you may previously have taken for granted – and in doing so
drastically expand the scope of its arcade dogfighting into something far more varied,
challenging and rewarding.
For example, you might become used to your special weapon over time—often more powerful
or with greater homing capabilities on more targets than your standard missiles.
Well, how about a mission where you're forced to drop said weapon in place of a laser guidance
system—forcing you to get closer to your target as well as hold your position as the
bomb drops, made all the more terrifying by how perilously low you have to descend into
the mountains in order to do so.
Up to this point, it's been a case of getting your radar in the general vicinity of the
target and hitting a button.
Now, the designers force you to stare your target in the face for a prolonged period
of time; testing your aim as well as your nerve as every fibre in your body screams
at you to pull up.
It's the same systems, it's largely the same setting of open sky and rocky ground
as any other mission, but by removing just one potential crutch the player may lean on,
the game presents what feels like a completely fresh scenario.
Multiple missions will remove the radar to differing effects; a lightning strike in a
canyon filled with jagged rocks will force you to remain prepared to focus more closely
on your target—following it through these hazards as your HUD intermittently cuts out.
A sandstorm will mess with the electronics forcing you to seek out ground targets manually
while only being able to see a few feet in front of you.
A universal outage will require you to get unnervingly close to targets for visual confirmation
on whether they're friend or foe—always weighing up risking friendly fire against
the time it would take to properly identify, turn around and make another pass at taking
them out.
All wildly varying challenges, all stemming from the simple removal of your reliance on
the radar.
Hell, this is a game where you fly massive planes at Mach speeds in order to cause spectacular
explosions, that manages to create a believable, honest to god stealth mission simply by taking
away your ability to gain altitude and, by setting it in a narrow canyon and restricting
your movement, your manoeuvrability is put to the test in a way it previously wasn't.
What's more, it's a moment of quiet in an experience that is otherwise relentless.
The developers' more restrictive approach to mission design ends up as much a pacing
device as it is a joyously tense gameplay set-piece.
This process of restricting your abilities in missions both trains you to become an absolute
powerhouse against the game's tougher foes, zigging to meet their zag at the drop of a
hat, while really making you feel like you earned that power—like your mastery of the
systems is what drives the game's progression.
And Ace Combat really is a game that forces this mastery.
I'm a big fan of action games that allow you to pull off the crazy moves you see in
their cutscenes, but here doing so is not only encouraged by the game's immensely
flexible controls, but it's often a very strict mission requirement—fail to pull
off these incredible feats of airmanship and your punishment is severe.
One of the reasons the aforementioned set pieces are so tense – the high stakes at
play here – come down to the fact that, in what can often be incredibly chaotic situations
(whether due to the obstacles you must navigate or the weirdly aggressive time limits the
game sets you), a simple graze of the wing in minute 20 can send you all the way back
to minute 1.
To say it is unforgiving would be an understatement.
This difficulty, however, was the element that made the game for me in a lot of regards,
because it's one of the few titles I've played recently in which you can truly say
that every move counts.
It turned every bombing run, every pursuit of an unpredictable enemy, into a taut game
of risk and reward.
Every mission contained several of those delightfully Hollywood-esque scenarios, where you're
tailing the guy but there's a bogey on your six that's got a lock on you; you're out
of missiles and having to use your eyes to orient your machine gun fire.
Your radio is begging you to evade, leading you to either get out of dodge or wait that
agonising second longer to get that shot before pulling as hard as you can on the joystick
to avoid the obstacle that awaits you.
You know you can pull this off, you just know you can… even though when you do, it likely
moved so fast that you wonder how the hell you got out unscathed.
It's the kind of thrill games rarely afford you from a purely mechanical standpoint, for
sure, but what was surprising to me as I progressed was how much more invested I was in these
moments from a narrative sense than the lore dumps the game throws at you; how much more
effectively the game's little details, its design and mechanics delivered on its more
thematic ambitions.
For example, the hostility shown towards you by your higher-ups do a far better job of
highlighting the plight of your supposed opponents than the cutscenes simply by virtue of the
fact that their talk of making your lowly squadron useful as targets (backed up by missions
that restrict your weapons for that very reason) makes you feel trapped in your predicament,
yearning for any side that's going to rise up against these incompetent idiots.
They just can't see that you could handle this if you were given a longer leash.
After making it through these gargantuan tasks demanded of you, tearing through as many enemies
as possible to just make the wild score counts the game requires, repeating the same fifteen
minutes over and over again to nail the final required manoeuvre, you come out grizzled,
exhausted; in full knowledge that the game has tested you to my limits and that you have
overcome.
You feel like you've truly proven your capabilities, and what's more, the game seems to reflect
that.
Air control announcements progressively become less confrontational as your piloting abilities
become more trusted.
The three lines on your tail – previously a source of derision for your character's
supposed crimes – are subtly redesigned as you become a subject of fear; your name
spoken in hushed whispers you hear from both your comrades and from occasional radio intercepts
as enemies briefly express their shock at the appearance of the now legendary Three
Strikes.
The mission briefings gradually illustrate that your so-called superiors, concerned only
with saving face, have been ousted as more and more voices are heard; highlighting how
meaningless the hierarchy is when you and your prisoner buddies are the ones sticking
to missions even in the face of pure chaos.
As I played through the game, I felt like I'd earned those three strikes on my plane;
I'd clawed back the respect of my squad.
I had become the ace pilot the radio dialogue portrayed me as, and I'd done so purely
through clever, less-is-more mission design bolstered by tight controls.
But then there's also that moment.
A missile you fire at a radar tower – one of thousands of missiles you fire at countless
radar towers – will be met with the expected "hoo-rah" for conquering yet another target
before a radio intercept will force you to listen to the enemy scatter in panic as fire
engulfs their facility, or eavesdrop on an unknown troop lamenting the sudden death of
his brother at your hands.
It's a fleeting moment; barely anything in the grand scheme of the mass destruction
you cause.
There's also arguably a degree of cynicism to the whole endeavour given that there's
not a way for you to back out of the violence you inflict.
That said, while the personal micro-narrative of ascending the ranks through gameplay was
incredibly satisfying in and of itself, moments like this were as close as the game got to
jolting me out of that arcade-y mindset and actually forcing me to think about the wider
implications, the real human cost of taking out the toy tank in the little green square
for 100 points—the thing my corrupt higher-ups were congratulating me for, expecting me to
forget about in an instant to move onto the next target.
And while this is far from the most profound subversion of player input, the game's remarkably
minimalist approach in this regard – its willingness to surface these moments for just
long enough that you begin to question the impact of your actions - acts as further proof
that, when trying to convey the horrors of conflict, a million monotonous cutscenes telling
you "war is bad but also pilots should be fighting the bad wars" will always fail
to reach the thematic potency of one finely tuned interaction.
So I hope you enjoyed my review of Ace Combat 7.
If you did and feel like you want to support my work directly, you can head to my Patreon
like these wonderful folks currently on-screen.
I really could not continue to do this without your incredibly generous support and I cannot
thank you enough for that.
Special thanks go to Mark B. Writing, Rob, Nico Bleackley, Michael Wolf, Artjom Vitsjuk,
Ali Almuhanna, Timothy Jones, Spike Jones, TheNamlessGuy, Chris Wright, Ham Migas, Travis
Bennett, Zach Casserly, Samuel Pickens, Tom Nash, Shardfire, Ana Pimentel, Jessie Rine,
Brandon Robinson, Justins Holderness, Christian Konemann, Mathieu Nachury, Nicolas Ross and
Charlie Yang.
And with that this has been another episode of Writing on Games.
Thank you very much for watching and I will see you next time.
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Talor Tilt Tests - Duration: 4:54.
This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute in this video we're going to go over two
more special tests for ankle joint stability, they're called the talar
tilt test. So I'm going to have my friend Yvette come out, and she's going to help me
demonstrate. Now these tests help test the integrity of both our medial
ligaments being our deltoid ligaments, as well as our lateral ligaments being the
ATFL, CFL and PTFL, and you actually don't need to memorize the the names of
those ligaments. What we are testing for is do we have good joint stability, do we
have integrity of these ligaments after something like an acute ankle sprain.
Maybe Yvette was playing soccer and she stepped in a little pothole in
the field and sprained her ankle, we need to make sure that sure her ligaments are
okay, that we still have enough stability that we think physical therapy is a good
choice. I'm going to go ahead and have Yvette just move this so you can see the
ankle. Now these tests are fairly simple to do and being 'talar tilt tests'
that's exactly what we're going to do, we're going to tilt her talus and see if her
ligaments stopped us. So I'm going to grab her tibia and stabilize it, I'm going to use
the palm of my other hand and grab a bunch of calcaneus here right, and I just
put her calcaneus right between my thenar eminence here. I'm going to get my forearms
so that they're in the direction of the force, and I'm just going to kind of like
take up all the slack into e-version in this case, I'm tilting her her talus
into e-version. I'm just going to give it a little thrust, almost like I'm
doing like a joint mobilization. If her ligaments stopped me, any pain? There's no
pain then I know that these ligaments are doing okay, in this case your deltoid
ligaments. For her lateral ligaments I'm just going to switch my hand position, so
I'm going to stabilize my tibia, I'm going to grab a handful of calcaneus, I'm going to
take up all the inversion and then just give a little thrust. Not
really like a high velocity thrust, more like I'm doing like a joint mobilization,
and just make sure that her lateral ligaments actually stop me from going
any further. If I didn't know whether I was feeling normal or abnormal
motion, of course I could compare it to her other ankle assuming that she had
one affected side and hadn't sprained both ankles in the in the same outing.
So again grab the tibia, handful of calcaneus, get my my forearms grab all
the inversion, take all the slack out and then I'm just going to mobilize a
little bit, and they stopped me. Notice I have not neutral
position or zero degrees of dorsiflexion, but she's not pulled all
the way into plantarflexion. I'm just kind of in that nice neutral position.
Same thing and go the other way, grab some tibia, grab some calcaneus, take up
all the slack in e-version and then give her some little thrusts
like I'm doing a joint mobilization, and if those ligaments stop me then I know
she has good integrity, and of course we can tell by her face that that wasn't
painful either. Again these aren't tests for like concordance signs, these
aren't pain propagation tests like an impingement test. An impingement test we
might come back to over and over and over again
as we try to treat and address an issue, and of course make the patient better.
These tests are more about clearing the patient for physical therapy. If she had
a positive talar tilt test and let's say also a positive anterior drawer test
which I went over in a previous video, and I'm just seeing massive amounts of
instability, I might refer her out right away, let's go get an MRI maybe talk to a
surgeon. If you lose too much of your ligament to stability around the ankle
and sometimes it doesn't get better without surgical intervention. At the
very least if I thought I had a positive anterior drawer, a positive talar tilt
test, and then after two or three sessions I was seeing no improvement, I
would definitely refer out then from physical therapy. So there
you have it, medial and lateral talar tilt tests. Also find those videos
on the anterior drawer and the subtalar joint stability test,
and you can kind of cluster these together as your quick tests if somebody
comes in with an acute ankle injury. If you have any questions leave them in the
comments below.
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Never ask Samoa Joe what he's thinking: WWE Exclusive, Jan. 27, 2019 - Duration: 0:45.
Joe, welcome to Chase Field.
The Royal Rumble is finally today.
How are you feeling?
>> How do you think I feel?
I feel ready for conquest, I feel ready to go.
I mean, I know your job, you need to come around here,
try to get everybody stoked up, see how they're feeling.
I'm in the same head space that I'm.
You know what it really is?
I'm upset.
I'm upset that there's any question in your mind or
anybody else's mind about what I'm gonna do here tonight.
29 men go over that top rope and I walk out with my opportunity.
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Meet the Identical Twin Sisters Marrying Identical Twin Brothers | Our Twinsane Wedding - Duration: 1:31.
-COULD WE PLEASE GET... -TWO SMALL
DOUBLE DOUBLE HOT CHOCOLATES WITH EXTRA CHOCOLATE.
Woman: BEING AN IDENTICAL TWIN
AFFECTS ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF MY LIFE.
OF HER LIFE, TOO. I KNOW THAT.
HEY, GUYS, GOOD MORNING.
I WAS JUST BLOWN BACK, I WAS LIKE,
"OH, MY WORD, THEY'RE IDENTICAL!"
SAME OUTFITS, SAME HAIR.
HAPPY TWINSDAY!
Both: WE LOVE BEING TWINS.
WE WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY.
WE'RE TWINS!
YOU HAVE SOMEONE THAT
COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDS HOW YOU THINK, HOW YOU FEEL,
WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO SAY IT.
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SO OUR DREAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN
TO MARRY IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHERS.
WOW, Y'ALL ARE IDENTICAL TWINS!
AND WE FOUND THEM -- OUR IDENTICAL TWIN PRINCES.
I WOULD GET CONFUSED.
DO YOU EVER GET EACH OTHER MIXED UP?
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"DO YOU SWITCH PARTNERS ROMANTICALLY?"
Woman #2: YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LIVE TOGETHER.
-OH, THEY ARE? -NO!
Man: WHEN WE STARTED DISCUSSING
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THAT'S WHERE WE LOSE PEOPLE.
OUR EARRINGS THE SAME...
THIS IS THE DAY THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT, HOPED FOR,
AND WE ARE ABOUT TO GO WALK INTO OUR OWN DREAM.
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My Top 3 $200 ANC Headphones As Of Q1 2019 - Duration: 14:19.
The premium ANC headphone market is really heating up… so much so Microsoft jumped
in with their new Surface headphones, Jabara announced their new Elite 85H's at CES 2019,
and most recently its rumored that Sonos is even working on their own pair of ANC headphones.
But as of right now, I think the Sony 1000XM3's are currently the best ANC headphones on the
market right now.
But I know dropping $350 on a pair of ANC headphones is a lot for some people.
So today we're going to compare my current top 3 favorite sub $200 ANC headphones as
of Q1 2019.
We have the Sony WH-CH700N, the Sennheiser 4.50 BTNC, and the Audio-Technica ATH-SR50BT
or as I call them, the Sir 50's.
Now I like and have no problem recommending either of these headphones but they all have
their own pros and cons.
But I think this video is going to be pretty interesting cause instead of me crapping on
one specific pair of headphones, we're going to be comparing 3 pairs of headphones that
I genuinely like for different reasons.
Like I said, these are my top 3 favorite Sub $200 ANC headphones.
The Sennheiser 4.50 BTNC's have a retail price of $179.99… where as both the Sony
WH-CH700N and Audio-Technica ATH-SR50BT have a retail price of $199.99.
If you wanna pick either of these headphones up I'll have links in the description down
below and I suggest you check them out cause you never know when they'll might go on
sale.
So you'll might get lucky.
Ok first lets get the simple stuff out the way here and thats included accessories and
ports.
The Audio-Technica Sir50's come included with a faux leather carrying pouch that I
think looks a little classy.
Where as the Sennheiser's come included with a polyester soft shell carrying case
which im not a big fan of but at least they came with something.
Cause unfortunately, the Sony WH-CH700N don't even come included with a carrying pouch or
case.
But still if you plan on on traveling with either of these headphones I highly recommend
you invest in a hardshell carrying case.
Cable wise, all of these headphones come included with a micro USB cable for charging.
Even though its 2019, if you want USB C charging on your headphones you're going to have
to spring for more expensive headphones like the 1000XM3's or surface headphones cause
USB C still hasn't made its way down to cheaper headphones just yet.
And both the Sir50's and WH-Ch700N come included with decent 3.5 to 3.5 millimeter
audio cables.
But just a heads up the Sennheiser's uses a 2.5 millimeter audio jack.
But now lets talk about build quality, cause its ones of the main reasons I like the Sennheiser's
and Sir50's so much and its one of the Sony WH-Ch700N's weak points.
Sony has done a great job of packing in a lot of features into the WH-CH700N but I guess
they had to compromise on build quality.
When even you flex the headband theres a good amount cracking and squeaking.
Its not overly excessive like some other sub $200 headphones I've tested but I would
definitely take it easy with these headphones.
I mean, they're not going to fall apart on you but their build quality pales in comparison
to both the Sennheiser's and Sir50's.
When ever you flex the headband or extend the headband on the sir50's they're almost
silent.
Tolerances on the body panels are very tight and if you squint they even resemble the 1000XM3's.
But what does make the Sir50's special is that they can either be laid down flat or
fold up.
Where as the Sony's can only be laid down flat, and the Sennheiser's can only be folded
up.
But I think the best build quality award here has to go to the Sennheiser's.
Just like the Sir50's if you flex the headband its basically silent and all of the body panels
are exactly where they need to be.
But what makes the Sennheiser's stand out here is that they're built like a tank.
If you're looking for a pair of headphones that you can throw around and not worry about,
then the Sennheiser's are the way to go.
But when it comes to fit, the Sennheiser's are objectively the least comfortable headphones
here.
Now all three of these headphones are big head approved but both the Sennheiser's
and Sony's have a snug fit.
They're not uncomfortable, but you'll never forget they're there.
But the main reason the Sennheiser's are the least comfortable headphones is cause
of their ear cups.
They're a little cramped compared to the other ear cups here and they're only suitable
for people with smaller flushed ears.
Where as the Sony's have the most spacious ear cups here… they're actually more spacious
than the ear cups on the 1000Xm3.
But the most comfortable award here has to go to the Sir50's.
The ear cups on the Sir50's are almost as spacious as the ear cups on the WH-CH700N,
but the main reason the Sir50's are the most comfortable headphones here is cause
they have very little clamping force like the Sony 1000XM3 or Bose QC35.
And since the Sir50's have very little clamping force they're great for long use sessions
and unlike the other headphones here, you'll forget you even have them on.
Now when it comes to battery life, both the Sennheiser and Sir50's perform relatively
the same.
The Sennheiser's have an advertised battery life of 25 hours and the Sir50's have an
advertised battery life of 28.
Over all I've found they're both good for about a week and a half in-between charges
for the way that I use them.
But the Sony WH-CH700N have an advertised battery life of 35 hours which is way above
average and they're good for about 2 weeks in between charges.
And when it comes to bluetooth connectivity all of these headphones have stable connections
that don't cut out.
But unfortunately all of these headphones can only be connected to one device at a time
so you cant hot swap from one device to another as seamlessly as AirPods or the surface headphones.
But I also wanted to point out the WH-CH700N do have a bit of latency when watching youtube
videos on your iPhone where as the other 2 headphones don't.
But that latency goes away if you're going to watch Netflix on your iPhone.
Now regarding active noise cancellation on all of these headphones, I just want to set
expectations first.
No matter what anybody else tells you for right now the active noise cancelation on
sub $200 ANC headphones is going to be nowhere near as good as the active noise cancelation
found on more premium ANC headphones.
And just so you can see for yourself we're going to jump into an ANC test.
So like I said, the active noise cancelation on these Sub $200 headphones is nowhere near
as effective as the ANC on the 1000XM3.
And thats perfectly fine.
But there are other metrics to consider when judging the ANC on any pair of headphones.
For starters all of these headphones have very little cabin pressure when ANC is turned
on, which is good to see cause some other headphones out there might cause discomfort
on your eardrums.
Which honestly is just annoying.
And these headphones also have very little hissing with ANC turned on which is a common
issue with other headphones with crappy ANC.
So over all, even though these headphones don't block out as much noise a more premium
headphones, their ANC can be useful to block out some constant low frequency sounds like
road noise, and if youre in an already quite place like an office or library they can block
out the constant rumbling of an AC unit or a little bit of chatter.
And they do so without causing any added discomfort which is the most important thing to keep
in mind.
Now when it comes to sound quality, all of these headphones perform well in the sense
that their bass never bottoms out, they have good clarity, and the highs never get tiny.
You see, with some other ANC headphones out there, if you use them with their ANC turned
on their sound stage gets narrowed and or their bass starts to bottom out more frequently
when the bass really gets going.
But in general if you want to get the best sound quality out of your ANC headphones its
best to use them with ANC turned off.
But when it comes to sound signatures, both the Sennheiser's and Sir50's have a neutral
sound signature, but I do think the Sir50's have better clarity and detail than the Sennheiser's.
But if you're looking for a pair of headphones that have more kick in their bass then you'll
want to look into the WH-Ch700N.
The WH-CH700N are the only headphones here who's app allows your to directly adjust
their EQ.
So you can make them sound how ever you want depending on the type of music you listen
to.
But no matter how much you play around with the EQ their Clarity and detail isn't going
to be as good as the other two headphones here.
So if I have to rank these headphones from best to worst sound quality wise, it would
go first place Sir50's, second goes to the Sennheiser's, and third would go to the
WH-CH700N.
But now lets talk about bonus features, unfortunately the Sennheiser's are going to have to sit
this one out cause besides ANC they don't have another features to showcase.
Besides good build quality, a comfortable fit, and good sound… one of the other reasons
the Sir50's made it onto my current top 3 list is cause they are one of the only sub
$200 ANC headphones out there that feature both an ambient more and quick attention mode
just like the 1000XM3's.
The Sir50's have a feature called Hear Through were they'll pump in some of the ambient
sound around you so you can still hear whats going on when you have your headphones on.
This feature is useful if you're walking around in the city or if you work in an office
you can still hear when someone calls your name.
The Sir50's also have quick hear through where if you press the only physical button
on the left ear cup your headphones will mute your music and pump in all of the ambient
sound around you like this.
And I really like when headphones have this feature cause you can talk to someone without
having to take off your headphones.
But unfortunately, even though the WH-CH700N are the 1000XM3's little brother they don't
have an ambient or quick attention mode.
They do how ever have google assistant integration.
And
as voice assistants continue to get better and get integrated into out daily lives, more
and more headphones are going to have direct voice assistant integration.
So its cool to see that the WH-CH700N already has this.
So we're now at the tail end of this video and I'm willing to bet that a good chunk
of people watching this might be considering getting the Sir50's.
I mean like I said earlier, they have good build quality, they're very comfortable,
they sound great, and they have very useful extra features… but they do have one glaring
issue, and thats their touch pad.
The Sir50's have a touch pad on the left ear cup to control your music playback.
But unfortunately as a righty this touch pad is very hard to use even after a few weeks
and its not the most accurate touch pad out there.
So when ever I use the Sir50's I just find myself using my phone to control my music
playback.
So the Sir50's do lose a bit of points when it comes to connivance.
Where as both the Sony's and Sennheiser's have a dedicated volume rocker and a switch
so you can easily scrub through your music all while keeping your phone in your pocket.
But I do prefer Sony's media control buttons over Sennheiser's cause they're larger
and easy to tell apart.
So overall, like I said at the beginning of this video I like and have no problem recommending
either of these headphones.
But if it wasn't for the Sir50's crappy touch controls on their left ear cup they
would be hands down my number one and most recommended sub $200 ANC headphones.
So I would only recommend getting the Audio-Technica ATH-SR50BT's if you're willing to comprise
on those touch controls or learn how to live with them.
But other than that I love these $200 headphones.
If you're looking for a pair of headphones with more spacious ear cups or an adjustable
EQ then the Sony WH-CH700N are a good option too.
And finally theres the Sennheiser HD 4.50 BTNC.
Just like the Audio-Technica's… they sound great.
But they're definitely not for people with larger ears.
But if you're looking for a pair of good looking rugged headphones then they're a
good option too.
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These Hackers Managed To Break Into the Government - Duration: 7:54.
According to an article in the New Yorker in 2014, the term hack in relation to technology
came about in the 1950s.
Back then, it had more benign connotations, mostly meaning working on a technical solution
to something.
Then in the 1970s we started talking about malicious hackers, people who would exploit
vulnerabilities in a system.
These people soon became known as "black hat" hackers, while the hackers that were
less malicious were called "white hats."
Then we have the term life hacker, which is more or less neutral.
Despite the fact there are the good, the bad, and the ugly in the hacking world, we still
for the most part tend to think of hacking as something of a nefarious activity.
We have good reason too, as you'll find out in this episode of the Infographics Show,
Hackers Who Broke into the Government.
War Games Some media reports say one of the world's
most famous hackers, Kevin Mitnick, was the inspiration behind the 1983 movie War Games.
But in numerous interviews he has denied this, although he did admit that he hacked a lot
of big companies.
Some reports tell us he also hacked the FBI and NORAD – the North American Aerospace
Defense Command.
Perhaps he is telling the truth and this is just bad journalism, so we'll just say some
sources state this happened.
He did say this, though, in an interview with Salon: "Hacking to me was like a video game.
It was about getting trophies.
I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was
hooked."
This hacker was revealed to the public, but you'll see later that some of the world's
biggest hackers remain faceless.
More War Games No one is denying that a British man called
Matthew Bevan hacked into the United States Air Force, NASA, NATO, and the Korean Atomic
Research Institute.
This guy has been accused by security experts of almost starting World War Three.
Along with another man, well, a 16-year old-boy called Richard Pryce, Bevan hacked into military
computer systems in the USA.
The US government started a case against him but later dropped it.
While reports suggest this really did happen, Bevan told The Guardian in 2002 that the US
government had overblown things at the time.
Speaking about another British hacker who was accused of hacking American military computers,
Bevan said, "I know how the American propaganda works because I've been at the sharp end of
it.
If he is extradited, he is stuffed because they will want to make an example of him."
The Winner Kevin Poulsen has had an interesting career,
becoming an editor and journalist after starting out as a hacker.
In 1990, he hacked his way to winning a Porsche 944 S2 by hacking a radio station's telephone
lines.
But it's also said that at the age of just 17 he hacked into ARPANET, the Pentagon's
computer network.
He was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
He was banned from using computers for a few years after his release, but he eventually
became a writer working in tech journalism.
The Loser Like Poulsen, a young hacker called Jonathan
James ended up behind bars, albeit for a probation violation on the back of a cyber security
crime he had committed.
That crime was hacking into the United States Department of Defense, and he did it when
he was just a teenager.
It's said he hacked many emails of employees and saw a lot of sensitive data.
OPM Hack The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
was hacked in 2010.
This is an office that according to Wired staves off around 10 million attempted hacks
per month.
It's said that in all 21.5 million records were stolen, and all of them were related
to employees at OPM.
This went on for some time, and for a long time no one had any idea who was behind it.
The Washington Post reported in 2017 that a Chinese national had been arrested for the
hack, but it's thought more people were helping this one man.
It was possible that the Chinese government was behind him and his crew.
The court transcripts said he would "acquire and use malicious software tools, some of
which were rare variants previously unidentified by the FBI and information security community,
including a malicious software tool known as 'Sakula.'"
Pluck the Police The FBI was certainly embarrassed after a
15-year-old British kid hacked into it in 2015.
The media tells us that this teenager also hacked into the Department of Homeland Security,
and then he plucked and leaked tens of thousands of highly sensitive files.
He was said to be just one kid who belonged to a group called Crackas With Attitude.
Hacking the Democrats In 2016, the media reported that the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had been hacked, and thousands of emails had been
leaked.
Mashable wrote, "The hack exposed emails indicating supposedly neutral DNC officials
maneuvered in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders."
Russian hackers were blamed for this incident.
Russian Snakes In 2018, there was another incident involving
Russian hackers.
This time, they were blamed for hacking the German government.
Reuters tells us that a group known as Snake got into government computers and saw a lot
of sensitive files.
While Russian hackers were blamed, the Kremlin denied any part of this hack, saying, "We
note with regret that any hacking attacks in the world are associated with Russian hackers
but that each time they (the allegations) are made without any tangible proof."
Nonetheless, it's said this group, which is linked to the Russian government, also
tried to hack many other countries' governments using the same malware.
Sick Singaporeans The BBC writes that in 2015 Singapore's
government health database was hacked, so someone got hold of the health information
of 1.5 million people in that country.
The good news is that the hackers only got names and where the people went to the hospital.
They also saw the medicine prescriptions of 160,000 people.
Panicky in the UK The biggest health hack of all time has to
be when Britain's National Health Service was infiltrated in 2017.
Hackers locked files containing information about people's health.
They demanded money and then said if they were paid, they would unlock those files.
The Independent wrote at the time, "The ransomware is shocking and horrifying."
Known as the WannaCry hack, these people got into around 200,000 computers in an estimated
150 countries, so it might well be the hack of all hacks.
It has been reported that North Korea was behind the attacks.
The US government as well as Microsoft and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre also
said that.
In 2018, the US charged a North Korean citizen called Park Jin Hyok for the hack.
The Lost Virginians Staying with health, in 2009 the very personal
health information of 8.3 million Virginians was hacked.
The hackers demanded 10 million dollars or else they would release the information, which
consisted of patient records and prescriptions.
It doesn't seem like they got paid.
With so many prolific hackers out there, even if you're not the government you're going
to need some serious online security.
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These are some of the biggest government hacks ever, but could you tell us if we've missed
anything big?
Have you ever hacked anyone, or have you ever been hacked?
Tell us in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other show, Most Dangerous Hackers In The World.
Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.
See you next time!
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Donald trump told us recently on twitter that there's actually two caravans.
There's two immigrant caravans coming through Mexico headed towards the United States to
now the last one fizzled out.
The one before that fizzled out, but totally believable that there's now two different
caravans, I guess maybe racing each other towards the US border to see who can get here
first.
I don't know how the Hell it works.
All I know is that they don't even exist, so sure.
Why not speculate that there's this big multimillion person race coming towards the US border,
but here's the thing.
Immigration is actually a real issue, right?
We, we, we do have problems with our immigration system.
One of the biggest problems is that we're blocking children in cages and separating
them from their parents and then oops, losing their parents, or worse, we're just letting
the kids die.
To me, that's the biggest immigration issue, but here's the thing.
It works both ways, right?
Because it's not just people coming from the southern border into the United States.
We have plenty of people, in fact, thousands of people per day going from the us into Mexico,
parking their cars in the United States than walking across the border into Mexico and
do you know why they're doing that?
Well, according to new reports, we've got thousands of people leaving the us to go to
Mexico on a daily basis to seek cheaper quality healthcare.
So while government officials, the trump administration, they're sitting here demonizing Mexico as
this hell hole, which is actually a nicer phrase than what the president has used in
the past.
They're horrible.
They're awful.
They're all drug dealers, rapists, killers, whatever they are.
And then the American public is like, Oh, I hate those immigrants.
Hey, you want to go down to Mexico and get some dental work done?
It's 80 percent cheaper down there.
You want to go buy some prescription drugs?
We can't afford to buy them in the US.
So it's either we hopped the border and purchase them or we don't get them.
That's literally what's happening every single day with thousands of people here in the United
States according to the new report.
And if you'd like to check out the report for yourself, I encourage you to do so.
You can find the link in the description of this video.
It is well worth the read.
But here's the thing, again, we are demonizing not just the people that come over here, but
the entire country.
I mean basically everything south of the United States right now is being demonized by the
current administration.
And yet they're obviously doing something better.
They're doing something better and a lot of it has to do with dental care and prescription
drugs.
Um, what's really striking to me though is that again, we have thousands of people according
to the report going into Mexico every day, you know, they stay there, they get the dinner
work done, or they go over there, they grabbed their prescription drugs and they hop back
across the border.
Have you heard anyone down there in Mexico saying, we've got to build a wall.
We had to keep out these filthy, disgusting, sickly Americans.
We had to keep them out of Mexico.
No, but you do hear people like Tucker Carlson saying, immigrants make us dirtier.
Immigrants make us sicker and yet we're actually the ones fleeing the United States to go into
Mexico to get better medical care.
That to me is one of the biggest ironies of this entire immigration story that has blown
up throughout the trump administration, but it's also very good evidence that we have
to fix our healthcare system in the United States and we have to fix it immediately.
Nobody in this country should ever have to leave our own borders to go get better, cheaper
medical care.
Medicare for all is the only solution at this point, the only one, and I do firmly believe
that it is an inevitable solution.
Something that will happen hopefully within the next five to 10 years, if not even sooner
than that.
The public wants it, the public needs it, and until they get it, they're just going
to have to hop the border to the south and sometimes hop the border to the north to go
and get better, more cost efficient healthcare because our system in the United States is
absolutely horrible.
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Babbel vs Duolingo - Duration: 4:09.
So recently I have been travelling a lot
which means lots of language learning
and lots of app testing
so today we are returning some findings
and comparing 2 of the most renowned language applications in the world
Babbel vs Duolingo
what do they do ?
what are the differences ?
and how can they help you learn a language ?
sound interesting ?
then keep on watching
before we get started let's take a quick step back
and take a look at what Babbel and Duolingo actually are actually are
so on a very basic level
these 2 applications have taken the materials
that you used to find in
books and cds
and built them
into apps
now although this sounds simple
the advantages are huge!
because they can
and the biggest advantage of all
is they are accessible 24 hours a day
because you can carry them around
in the palm of your hand
cool
but do they actually help you learn a language ?
yes and no
both of these applications are great for beginners because they are...
so if you have no previous knowledge of the language
and want to get started
these are 2 great options to try
they are slightly limited
and are only going to help you reach a certain level
so if you have dreams of downloading Duolingo
and becoming fluent
dream again
because neither Babbel nor Duolingo
give you any actual interaction with native speakers
so it's like try to teach somebody to swim
but never actually setting foot in the water
so
I think a big reason that
that Babbel has 10s
whereas Duolingo has 100s
of millions of downloads
is the fact that it's free
whereas Babbel gives you 1 free lesson
and after that it's approximately 10 Euros a month
which in fairness is still a lot cheaper
than most other materials on the market
Duolingo appeals to the masses
because it has gameified languages
so you start at the bottom of the game
and by remembering words and phrases you work your way to the top
and on the way you win
shields, lingots, owls
and other lord of the rings
sounding stuff
so on the 1 hand this is awesome
because it essentially gets people addicted
the precious lingots
on the other hand it's slightly restricting
because you can't jump from one place to the next
you have to unlock the levels
but what is sure, is that if you like a game
swapping candy crush for Duolingo
is probably quite a good shout
Babbel is a lot more standard
in terms of it's design
but it offers lots of flexibility
you can jump back and forth as you need
and if you already have some working knowledge of the language
jump to the bit you want and...
no time wasted
so there are lots of things we could say
and big words that we could use here
but essentially the 2 apps do a fairly similar thing
by showing you a series of
over and over again
until you remember it
they make you study small chunks daily
as oppose to cramming
and they do this in the most
entertaining and encouraging way possible
so that you don't get bored
so i think the fun design of Duolingo
is also reflected in the content
they are often criticised by serious language learners
for teaching useless phrases
fair enough
that said if you are just learning for fun
maybe it will make you giggle
and it will stick in your head better so...
voilà
Now Babbel's more serious design
is also reflected in their more serious content
they go into a lot more depth
on cultural aspects, grammatical structures
and they is overall more on the language
as oppose to the game
and one small but very important point
is that they use native speakers
as oppose to robot voices
which i personally find much more helpful
but does that make it worth the money ?
it depends
if i stop sitting on the fence
and give you my personal recommendation
here is what i would do
so if you are a complete beginner
and just going for a weekend away
you want to learn some words and phrases and...
a little bit of fun
i would go with Duolingo
it's fun, easy and...
it's free
zero euros
however, if you really have aspirations
of becoming conversational or fluent
i would sign up to something like Babbel
because they are going to give you
more structure, more flexibility
and potentially a more serious learning experience
so guys and girls i hope you found this useful
and if you want more language
tips, tricks and randomness
subscribe
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Don't Be Your Mind's B**ch - Duration: 10:52.
- Hey guys, good morning.
J.K. with Porn Reboot here, on my way back
from the gym, as usual.
Today, I want to speak briefly
about not being your mind's bitch,
and that means the ability to control your biochemistry,
as a tool for creating the world that you live in.
Ideally, you wanna create a world
where you do not medicate your stress,
and your anger, your strong emotions,
and your loneliness, and other things
with pornography and masturbation.
You want to be able to first, develop coping skills,
and eventually rewire your brain,
and in the process change your biochemistry,
to respond in much healthier ways.
I'm going to use meditation as an example
of a tool that you can use to change your biochemistry
and quit being your mind's little bitch.
Now, a lotta people have the misconception
that meditation is something exotic,
or something which is woo-woo,
and involves a certain amount of spirituality.
In recovery and in the Porn Reboot system
I teach men the basics of meditation,
and it's not for everybody,
but most human beings can meditate,
and they're different types of meditation.
I'll give you an example, let's say I have a client
who is fine during the week.
He doesn't slip, he can spend time with his kids
and his wife, and he's not easily frustrated,
but every weekend, without fail, he slips.
So, one of the things that meditation would do for him,
and meditation is simply becoming present.
And one of the ways you can become present
is by observing your breath, observing your breathing,
'cause your breathing is the only thing
which is constant in you.
Regardless of what happens in your body,
you are going to breathe,
involuntarily, you are going to keep breathing.
So, when you obverse that, you're observing something
that's constant, and it requires an intense amount
of presence, which means that you have to be here
in the moment to obverse your breath without controlling it.
When you are in the moment you cannot be anywhere else.
And using the example of this client,
it's Saturday, he gets up in the morning,
and he does his Porn Reboot morning routine.
He gets up, it's eight o'clock, and he feels a lot
of resistance to waking up.
There is something biochemical
that is occurring in his body.
Now, what's happening is that, his body is rejecting
the fact that he is waking up and not doing anything,
because his body knows that, hey, on a typical day
around this time, I wake up and I get pissed off
about my day, or I get upset about the fact
that I need to work.
So, right there at that moment,
there's going to be a chemical reaction.
So, he gets up and let's say, he uses the bathroom
and he sits down to meditate.
He's gonna sit down, and maybe for the first thirty seconds,
he observes his breath, but what's going to happen
is immediately, his mind is gonna go somewhere else.
Because, maybe typically at that time,
that's the time he gets on Instagram
while he's in the bathroom,
and he's filling his head with dopamine.
He's reading the news, he's getting some type of stimuli.
Your body wants that stimuli,
and you're not giving your body that stimuli that it needs.
So, it's going to be very uncomfortable to sit there.
It's very uncomfortable,
not because your mind is running all over the place,
it's very uncomfortable because your body
does not want to be there.
Your body is craving something,
but through meditation and mindfulness,
you are training your body
to stay and remain in the moment.
He sits for a little bit, maybe after 10 minutes.
Again, the body is like, well okay,
since you're not going to look at Instagram,
you're not gonna look at this,
dude, you should be checking your email,
there might be something important there.
Again, the craving for a certain biochemical reaction
occurs within the body.
And the body is craving the feeling
of getting into your email and the mystery
of what sort of emails you're going to get.
It's novelty too.
They're might be somebody that pisses you off.
They're might be something from your boss
that makes you anxious.
Your body is prepared, it is prepped,
and it is craving all these different biochemical reactions.
And when you sit, again, and you choose
not to engage in those things, what you're doing is
you are training the body to be in the moment,
and not crave those biochemical reactions, okay.
The sames goes with pornography,
the sames goes with masturbation,
but it starts with the most basic emotions
that you are using porn and masturbation to medicate.
What you're doing is, you're training your body
just like a horse, or just like a dog.
No matter how stubborn it is
it's going to break at some point.
It's going to break and finally it is going to learn
that you are the boss, that you control it,
and it cannot just simply react
to any sort of compulsive behavior.
This can be done by anybody, however,
one thing that I've noticed is that
some men have exposed themselves to modalities of recovery
that do not teach them this.
They teach them all sorts of things,
but they do not let them know
that they have the power to train their brain.
They have the power to change your biochemical reactions.
They have the power to change themselves in essence.
And when the first message you receive
when you seek help for your porn or masturbation addiction,
is that you have no power over that,
that sticks with you, that stays with you.
And then when you're put in a community of other people
who have affirmed that they have no power,
and other people who say, like hey, trust us,
we have done this for years and we have recovered
because we have no power.
That makes you believe that, hey, I am powerless,
it is so powerful, I guess, I guess that's the way it is.
And then you become initiated into those beliefs.
That's why some men come to me after they've tried
these methods that don't work.
They find it so challenging to accept the fact
that they can change their biochemistry,
and meditation is just one very basic example
of how it can be done.
In the Porn Reboot system there are lots
of coping skills that you can learn.
There are lots of ways that you can change
your biochemistry.
There are lots of methods to do that.
So, a lot of men are just like, oh my god.
There's so much resistance to it and they struggle a lot,
because their core beliefs that they've been initiated in
year, after year, after year by participating
in these other methods is that you have no power.
So, so many things happen to them,
and they tell me, ah, it's just, it's, you know,
it's just my anxiety, I can't control it.
And the belief needs to change.
Not everybody comes into the Porn Reboot system
is ready for it.
Many of them, I tell them, hey man,
you're not ready to work with me.
If you want to work with me,
we are not going to jump straight into the coping skills.
It's not going to be as easy as you think it is.
We've got to change those unhealthy beliefs
about recovery that you have picked up,
because they are not serving you anymore,
they are holding you back.
I'm appalled by the number of therapists that understand
the biology of addiction, or at least I think they do,
yet they will send men to places where the first thing
they tell him is, you have no power over yourself,
you're fucked, so accept that you're fucked first of all,
and then let's go from there.
There's a whole difference between taking responsibility
for your addiction, and going like, I have no power over it.
That is some archaic, outdated bullshit.
Yeah, I said it.
It's bullshit, and I have seen more men
harmed from it than helped.
If you wanna stop being your mind's little bitch,
why would you say something to your mind
along the lines of, I am powerless.
It just means like, hey, I have no power, no resistance,
I'm your bitch, and then we'll start from there,
we'll start from ground zero.
That's just stupid, doesn't make any sense to me,
hasn't made any sense since I walked out of the first group.
All right, so, if you like this video
and you'd like to learn more about some of the coping skills
and the methods that I teach in the Porn Reboot system,
join our Facebook group.
There's a link to it in the description below.
I'm J.K., your brother in this struggle.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video,
and I'll see you on the brighter side of this journey.
Have a great day.
Easily is through a reboot.
Now, what's a reboot?
Well, it's rewiring your brain
to become a normal human being.
You know, getting back what you lost,
what you gave up during the time you struggled
with porn and masturbation,
and at Porn Reboot, I believe, and I found great success.
Really good session.
Somebody on yesterday's video,
which was the video on, can I masturbate during my recovery,
while I'm trying to quit porn, somebody asked,
can I have a girlfriend.
Depression.
On the other hand, we have a goal,
and a goal is a dream with a deadline.
That deadline makes it a commitment.
This means that is measurable, and you will know
when you've achieved your goal,
so there's no question about whether or not
you've achieved it when you get there.
Now, one of the reasons why you are unhappy
is because you are basing your journey
to what's freedom from porn and masturbation on an ideal.
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✅ Uncomplicated Hair & Skin Routine for Guys - Mens Personal Care - Duration: 6:21.
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- Hello, guys, and welcome back to my channel.
My name's Thomas if you're brand new, and I make
style- and hair-related videos every single week,
so if that's your kinda thing,
make sure you hit the subscribe button
and come back and visit me every single Monday.
Welcome to today's video, where I'm just gonna be running
you over my brand new or updated skin and hair routine.
So if you're a low-maintenance groomer,
you're probably really gonna like this,
because I just noticed in reflection of 2018 as well
a lot of my routines are probably a little bit ambiguous
and crazy, so I've kinda dulled everything down
to just the basics of what I need, and yeah,
I'll be covering my hair routine and my skin routine
using the Tiege Hanley level three, which actually,
I've been using it since the beginning of December,
and I'm really, really impressed with it.
It's really good.
So we'll be running over that today,
and because I've teamed up with Tiege Hanley
with this video as well, you can get the 20% discount
off your first box by using this code
in the link in the description box below, okay?
So without further ado, let's get into it, and we'll start
this routine pretty much where I get out of the shower.
So straight out of the shower, I'll head to the basin
and sort of begin my skincare routine.
There's only five steps in this whole skincare routine.
Tiege Hanley takes the guess work out for you.
They've got their little pamphlet
that I've stuck on my mirror.
So when I get into this routine, the first thing I do
is just wet my face with a bit of warm water,
and then after I've done that, I'll grab the face wash,
I'll put a dollop size on there.
Then I'll scrub my face for just a couple of minutes,
rinse that off, and depending on whether it's exfoliating
day or not, I've been exfoliating twice a week.
I made sure when I filmed this video
I was doing it on exfoliating day, just so I can show
you the full extent of what I do in the routine.
And then I'll just swish that
around my face for a little while.
It smells really good.
They've got little apricot seeds
to really get in there and remove dead skin.
And it also leaves a really nice tingling sensation
on my face, which I'm really, really fond of.
It's pretty much my favourite part of the whole thing.
Then after I'm done with exfoliating,
I'll just rinse it off with the tap, warm water again,
and grab my little face cloth, give me a pat down to dry off
my skin, and then the next step is to use the super serum.
So the super serum is like a firming serum for your face.
I really like this kind of product.
I've never seen one for men before.
But all you do is use one pump, spread it around your face
evenly, and then wait for about 30 seconds for it to dry.
Then, straight after using the super serum,
it's time to do the eyes.
So again, for eyes, I just use one pump of it,
and then I'll cut that in half and then evenly distribute it
under my eyes, because my crows feet have been climbing in,
and that's why I went for the level three one as well,
because they have anti-aging properties in there,
and as I'm getting into my mid 20s,
I am starting to see some faint lines coming in.
So, things like the super serum in the eyes, they work
really, really well for this kind of thing, and I'm already,
after a couple of months, noticing a great difference.
Then after the eye treatment's done,
depending on whether it's a.m. or p.m.,
I'll use the moisturiser that they've allocated.
So they do have an a.m. moisturiser with SPF in it,
and they do have a nighttime moisturiser, which is really
nice and light, and that is skincare taken care of.
Very nice and simple, no guesswork,
and seriously, the results are really good.
My skin's been super clear and tight ever since using it,
so I'm very happy with that, and remember,
if you do wanna try out Tiege Hanley, you can do that
by visiting the link in the description box where there's
a special discount code that'll get you 20% off.
Enjoy!
So after I've done my skincare routine,
it's time to move onto hair.
Now, I did tell you that all of my routines
have been a little bit de-fluffed, and there's really
only three steps, or four steps with my hair routine.
The first thing is the head massage.
I've actually been doing
about 10 minutes of head massaging a day.
It's been proven that head massages
actually help your hair grow a lot healthier.
So by massaging the scalp, you're getting more blood flow
to the hair follicles, and they grow thicker,
fuller, faster, like, everything.
I've only been doing it for a few weeks now,
so I haven't seen any tremendous differences,
but I've been making an effort to include it.
It's like, 10 minutes of my day.
I'll go to YouTube.
I'll type in lofi, and all of these
live feeds come up with lofi music.
It's just really chill hiphop stuff.
It's amazing.
But what I do is I put the music on,
I start massaging my scalp for about 10 minutes on my bed.
So, give that a go if you're trying to grow your hair
out still, and then after I have done my head massage,
it's actually pretty funny.
When I massage my scalp for 10 minutes straight,
my hair's always quiet puffy and big.
Like, it dries out a little bit after the shower obviously,
so I'll just put my detangler spray in,
then use the comb to brush all of that liquid through,
get it all sitting down nicely again, and it's a good
opportunity as well, like, if I'm doing that daily,
I kind of get rid of all the hair fall that's coming, and I
don't have random bits of hair coming out all the time.
And then after I've sort of got my hair back
into the normal state, I'll then grab my
leave-in conditioner, put a bit of that on my hand.
I always go pretty crazy on the leave-in conditioner,
because as you guys probably know, my hair is very dry
and very frizzy, so using a leave-in conditioner
helps me kind of control that a little bit.
And then I'll use a bit of argan oil on top of that,
just for extra smoothness, and depending on how humid
the day is as well, I've really taken a liking
to just putting some flaxseed gel in my hair.
It really helps me kind of contain
that curl without it going crazy.
I won't use it on a day that's not really humid
and where my hair's prone to being frizzy,
but that's pretty much it.
And then after I've completed my hair routine,
I'll simply just put it up in a bun, or I'll style it,
depending on whether, like, what I wanna do for that day.
If I just wanna go cas and easy, I'll just tie it up wet,
wait for it to dry, and then if I wanna style an updo
or straighten it or whatever, I'll obviously spend
the extra half an hour doing that, and that's literally it.
That's like, my routine, done.
And to be honest, taking away all those other steps,
like using the Super Nova stuff and just different products
that I thought were necessary, they're really not.
Just take it back and make it a lot simpler,
because life is better when it's simpler.
I've got a million things to do, and if I can make
my grooming all nice and easy, then I'm all for it.
So, I hope you guys found that really useful.
If you have a different way of doing
all of your skin and hair, make sure you
let me know in the comments section below.
Let me know how the style of your year's going.
I can't believe we're near the end of January already.
It's kinda ticking my so fast.
I don't even know where time goes, you know?
But yeah, overall, I really hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you got some great ideas, and again,
if you wanna try out the Tiege Hanley range,
you can get 20% off your first box by using the code
ThomasINAction in the link in the description box, okay?
I really hope you have a good day, have a good week,
and I'll see you next Monday for another video.
My phone just went off.
(Thomas laughs) Bye!
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A royal expert says Meghan Markle's family are "tacky" and has likened them to "the Jerry Springer Show"
Duncan Larcombe claimed the controversy generated by the Duchess of Sussex's outspoken father and half-siblings has been bad for the royals
The journalist, who has authored Prince Harry: The Inside Story, made the comments on Yahoo's Royal Box series
He said: "They have reduced the commentary of the Royal Family to something from the Jerry Springer Show, you know it's tacky
" However, the former royal correspondent reserved praise for Meghan's mum Doria Ragland
"She's maintained a dignified silence, she has done everything right," he explained
The biographer also revealed Prince Harry and Prince William are very protective of untrue stories being written about their other halves
He said: "I've found that with Harry and William as well, that if you write a story about them that's true, and that's fair, they don't have a problem with it
"Where they start getting angry or defensive is when you get something wrong, they're also very, very defensive of their other halves
"As it turns out it was the best thing that could have happened to them, this wild and rebellious prince has now become the jewel in the crown of the British Royal Family
" Earlier this week, it was claimed Meghan and Kate Middleton's reported feud has been ended thanks to an intervention by Prince Charles
The pair's relationship has been under some strain in recent months following a number of 'frosty' public engagements
Princess Diana biographer and royal expert Robert Jobson says Prince Charles 'knocked heads together' over Christmas in a bid to halt the disagreement between the duchesses
He told Sunrise earlier this week: "I think there's no smoke without fire. "I do think it has been blown up a little bit but there have obviously been a few problems between the two ladies and even between the two princes
"There's some truth in the rumours. I'm sure at Christmas Prince Charles was knocking heads together and you can see that by those photographs of them all walking together in a line
"But they looked like they had been pushed together in a line, to be honest."
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Hey everyone! James here from The Better Band Bureau,
and I discovered something really interesting
while I was doing research for
my upcoming workshop which is called
Merchandise In The Modern Music Industry.
That's on January 30th,
Wednesday night that is
and it is at 8:00p.m.
Eastern Time.
So if you're interested in earning more money from merchandise
and really pumping that income
stream to its greatest potential, definitely
check that out. There'll be a link in the comments
or description below for you to look.
But so what was going on as I was
researching for this is there are some apps
for tracking merchandise that I've used before
I wanted to see if there were any that
had popped up since I had last done research
on this and since I had last compared
apps.
And what I did find is that there's a new player
called Merch Cat
and they have an interesting offer.
They're much cheaper than some
of the other competition including the
main player out there right now who I'll go
over in the workshop on Wednesday.
This one, Merch Cat,
they have pretty good pricing.
It's $7.99 per month
or $84.99 per year.
And that comes with inventory tracking
both at your shows
and in your warehouse
or storage area which is pretty awesome.
That's a big deal there because you're able to have
the two separate inventories
and transfer things back
and forth. What really caught my eye about
Merch Cat though, was that they have
a fan store.
So the tracking app that
you use when you're at your shows selling merch
will also double as an online
store for your merch where people can place
orders for you to ship it to them
or they can preorder it
and pick up the items at a show.
Which, that's something new, that's something unique
that I don't think I've ever seen before.
So I'm really excited about that,
And I wanted to take a look at the app.
I'm going to sign up for it right now I've never
done this before with Merch Cat
and see how it goes see how easy it
is and you can follow along.
I'm going to do it on my phone they do have a web site as you can see.
This is the main website that they have,
which is basically a pitch for their product,
and they have the Merch Cat Fan website.
Let's click on fan
and then they tell
you about the app, basically.
I'm kind of disappointed
that they don't have an online store,
that you can only as a fan buy through
the app, but it's still cool that they have
the app in the first place
and maybe they will have online stores
in the future and maybe that's just a feature
that I'm not currently seeing
and they do have it,
It's just not on the main page.
But anyway to
get back to checking this out
we're going to sign up for Merch Cat
on my phone right here.
Let's see how it goes.
Create a free account
artist name.
Well I'm not representing an artist right now
so I'll put in my own
name as if I'm a solo act
So that was far as I could get without paying
to use the app.
But I reached out to Vanessa who runs
Merch Cat
and had a great chat
with her about the app
and she showed me some of the features.
And she also gave me a
code so I could sign in to the app
and do this video for you guys
and show you how it works as well.
So I'm really grateful to Vanessa over
at Merch Cat, I think she has a really great product
here and I'm excited to show it to all of you!
From this point on it's no longer my reaction
to the app because Vanessa was kind
enough to give me a demo
via screen share so I could
understand better how the app works.
But now I do have a better idea of what
to show you because I can see what is
most important to you.
So I think this will be a more concise video overall
than it would have been if I was just exploring the app
while I was shooting.
So without further ado I'm going to cut back to the video
I shot the other day on how to use the app.
If you have any questions just leave a comment below
or go to the Merch Cat website
and reach out to Vanessa.
She's really nice and I'm sure she'll help you out
with any questions you might have.
And again thanks so much for watching.
I'm going to continue the demo now.
First of all, in the lower right
is the menu button. Hit profile
and there you can see I changed the artist name
to Reel Big Fish, just because I realized
for the show import from Bandsintown,
it has to be an actual artist.
Obviously I'm not gonna sell any items as Reel Big Fish,
but I just needed to put in something for
example purposes.
And, the subscription is active
because Vanessa the developer was kind
enough to give me a demo of
the app so I can show you how
it works which I think is really awesome.
And then I enabled
Square point of sale.
So that's that for the
basic account settings.
Then, if you go to Merch Cat Fan,
this is where you would set up anything
to do with the Merch Cat Fan app which
is where fans can purchase merchandise in advance
and pick it up at the show
or it's a webstore in app form
and they can purchase merch
and you ship it to them.
Both are very very cool ideas
I think because it all integrates to one system
and it means you don't have to track two separate inventories
which I think is really good because the
DIY artist has enough on their plate.
You don't have to have more. So to start,
you just slide over use Merch Cat Fan,
and then you'd connect to Square to receive payments.
You tap it
and it will ask you to sign in.
Once it loads which I'm not going to do right now
because I'm not going to be selling anything
I had already enabled ship to home home,
it's disabled by default.
Then you enter your address to enable
shipping
and then once you've done all that you can enter your social media
links and your website.
Which means that fans can find all of
those when they're in the Merch Cat Fan
app so they can stay connected
with you. And then you tap update profile.
Now going back to the main screen,
we're going to add some inventory.
So you tap inventory,
and you add an item.
I'm going to say it's a t-shirt
but since I don't have a picture of a t-shirt I'm
gonna add a picture of my dog.
He's awesome.
And we're going to call it dog t-shirt.
There you go.
The price let's call it 15.
The cost. This is the cost of the
item. So if it costs you $4.50
you'd put in $4.50 which
is known as the cost of goods sold.
The SKU is optional, we can leave that out.
But we do need to put it in category since this is a T-shirt,
we'll put it in as apparel.
And then it's going to ask what it is,
so we're gonna say it's unisex
and this is a medium.
Now when we get to count there's a few things
to watch out for.
Count, the top one, is
the total amount of this item you
have in stock.
No matter where it is whether it's in your
basement, your warehouse, your garage
on the road with you, wherever it is.
So let's say this is a fresh batch
and we had one hundred printed
so we have one hundred
but we're just doing a quick weekend tour.
We're not going to sell that much,
so we only took 20 with us.
The show quantity will come in later that doesn't
really matter for now.
But you might be wondering, "well what about
other shirt sizes?"
What you do is you hit save and duplicate
and then you can fill in the item again,
but you add in
gender
and size. We'll put in large this time.
The count we'll again put one hundred
and 20
and then we hit save.
Now obviously you could do that for every single shirt size,
but I'm just adding two for the sake of example.
So, that's how you add inventory.
You hit back and you're now at the main screen again.
Now that you know how to add inventory,
it's time to add your first show.
So you tap on shows.
And you tap add.
And you have two options: you can use Bandsintown,
or you can add a show manually.
I'm just going to go with Bandsintown.
Reel Big Fish has some shows,
I'm going to add tomorrow's show at The Blue Note
click submit
and there's the Blue Note in Columbia, MO,
And when you open it up
you have the option to start store.
But we're going to hold off on that for just a second.
When you import shows from Bandsintown, it adds
the venue information.
But it does not add the street name
a street address. Just city,
zip code and state.
So you want to add that information
if it matters to you.
Which if you're reporting
to Soundscan through another application
then you do need that information.
In addition, if you're using Soundscan
you need to fill in the contact email
and phone as well as their name.
That's the venue representative
who will sign off to vouch that, yes
this has been sold on this date.
I don't care about that stuff since this is just an example
and I'm not going to be reporting my sales
So I just hit save.
Now that I've gone over the address
with you and we're back on the main page
for the show we're, going to enable road
merch only which tracks
inventory separately so it knows that you're deducting
from the road merch rather than
the warehouse merch.
You can add the hall fee which
is the venue's percentage
and it sucks
but unfortunately a lot of venues do take
a hall fee.
The app does give you the opportunity to split
it into different percentages for merch
and music because many venues do charge
separate fees depending on what
item you're selling.
So let's say they take 20 percent
of merch
but only 10 percent of music
and then we tap save.
It bounces us back to that main page,
but now we're ready to go
ahead and start selling.
So you tap the show,
then you tap start store.
I'm not going to enable this right now because I'm not actually
selling anything.
Now we have our count in
and we're fresh on the tour so we know 20
of each is accurate,
that's our count.
Or pretend I just counted all 40 shirts right now
and we're all set on that.
Proceed to confirm.
And now I can sell.
So let's say I sell
one medium dog T-shirt.
Add it to cart, go to checkout
and hit take payment.
Now it's bouncing over to Square because
in the settings I had enabled
Square. You could also enable PayPal
or cash only.
You do have to make sure that you're signed into the
Square app before it tries to
bounce over to Square, otherwise it won't load properly.
Now I'm not gonna swipe a card because I don't want to charge myself.
I'm just gonna put in cash
and I'm going to say they gave me
twenty dollars
and tender
it'll say five dollars change
and does the person want a receipt? They don't want a receipt.
I hand them their change
and there we go.
Now it says complete, I've been paid fifteen
dollars.
That's how fast it is to sell items
with this app. I love it.
One last thing I want to show you about
the sales section is how you can
do discounts or comps.
For example, you're doing buy one get
one free
you add two of the item
you go to check out
and you can just adjust the price in the
cart right there
and set it to fifteen dollars
instead of 30 because it's buy one get one free!
Take payment go in I'm going
to do cash and this time I'll do exact because
it's easier.
No thanks to the receipt,
and that's it. We're done with selling.
Now, if you at the end of the night
looking to close down your shop
you hit the X in the upper left
and tap stop store.
Yes I'm sure I want to stop the store
and then it offers an inventory count out.
I know that my numbers are accurate because they're made
up, but you might want to actually count
and make sure that you're not missing anything.
Let's say we did count
and we found that for the large,
wes we did sell two of those
and we have 18 left but for the medium we only sold
one...
But we also only have 18 left.
So I tap adjust
and change the number.
And that's how we account for our losses.
Then I confirm,
and it generates the report for
this show.
One last thing I want to show you is how
the reports in the app work.
So from the main screen you tap on reports
and then you can see here all the items
sold for the current month,
three months, six months, nine
months, one year,
or since you created the account.
So I'm just gonna go back to current month,
and you'll see here there are quite a
few more items sold than in the demo.
But, that's because I was fooling around
the app testing it, seeing what
I could do.
And you will see at the current inventory
I have ninety six medium
and ninety six large shirts
of the dog t-shirt
then in the upper left the green menu button
if we tap the shopping cart this will let
us see the breakdown of each of our individual
shows.
So I go to info
and see the artist information
and the venue information, as well as the date.
Then there are three separate reports
and these are very important to understand.
The artist report includes all
sales for the show.
This means that it includes pre-sales
and any purchases fans made at
the venue but asked to be shipped
to their home.
The venue report does not include
the pre-sales
and shipped to home sales, because the
venue should not be taking a cut
out of those sales.
This is where the hall fee comes in
and you can see that on the shirts that were sold
the venue took 15 percent which means
they took four dollars
and 50 cents out of the 30 dollars
gross profit.
This means that the artist kept twenty five
dollars and 50 cents.
You can see the breakdown here,
that one medium was sold for 15
dollars. The Buy One Get One Free
that we did the two large were for $7.50
each, which works out the same.
And then the loss we reported
was for zero.
And it's quantity negative one.
Scrolling a little further down, the venue
representative and the artist representative.
This is where you'd have the venue representatives
sign to verify your SoundScan sales.
Going back up.
We have the inventory report.
This is where you can see what you have left
of each item.
You counted in with 18 of each.
We adjusted negative one for the medium because
it was lost and we sold one medium
and we sold two large.
Leaving us with 16 of each
and three items total sold.
Just going back to the main menu.
That's about it for Merch Cat basics.
Now I want to make it clear that even though I was in communication
with Vanessa the founder
and CEO of Merch Cat she
did not ask me to promote this application.
I had reached out proactively to her.
I'm not getting any sort of affiliate deal
I am making nothing from talking
about this application.
It's just something that I stand behind.
I think it fills a large gap
in the industry between top
tier apps like atVenu
which are very expensive
and have lots of features that the average person
just doesn't need.
And other smaller apps that
they work but they're not great.
This app, Merch Cat, has a lot
of great features that I think everyone should have
and I really love the Merch Cat Fan
app that goes with it to
run your web store through an app
and allow preorders of merch
at your shows.
I just think that's an absolutely wonderful idea
and I fully support it.
Having spoken with Vanessa I know
she is 100 percent there for the artist.
She wants to talk to people
and learn their stories.
She wants to help people,
and I think that's really great
and that's something that we need more of in this industry.
And I also think that from what I've seen of the
app, this is honestly something I
would use.
The other apps I've tried some of them including
atVenu
and others
and they do what they're supposed to do
but not as easily
and efficiently as Merch Cat does.
So I encourage you to check out
the Merch Cat website,
the link will be down below in the description.
And if you have any questions, reach out to me
or reach out to Vanessa.
I'm sure she would be happy to help
you. And of course even though I have
limited experience with the app I
did get the demo training
and I've been using it today to shoot
this video and I think it's something that's really
cool so I will try to
help you if I can as well.
Now if you want to learn more about Merchandise
In The Modern Music Industry, I have a workshop
on that very topic.
It's about how you as an artist in 2019
can make money off of merchandise
and use it to help your career
go from a hobby musician to
full time.
So I think you should check that out as well
if you're serious about making this your career.
It's on Wednesday January 30th
at 8p.m. Eastern Time, which is 5p.m.
Pacific, and that will also be in the link
below. And just because you watched this video
I'm going to give you a discount
code for ten dollars off of that workshop.
So I really hope to see you there.
There are very limited seats left,
so I hope you get your ticket
soon and I hope to see you there.
Thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a wonderful day.
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