I'm a nerd
I play those PlayStation 360 beat em up games
the struggle to date
was a reality
so I did what any normal human bean would do I you only live
once and yolo'd and did some very embarrassing thing is that I would
discover yielded fascinating results
you'll see what I mean
this
is how
the
artistic nerd gets a girlfriend
Watashiwa CoaCoanee
my mom ate all
of my cookies
kokanee over here
imagine this my listeners nice Canadian
boy who just can't seem to get a GF because he's just too nice
Tee hee
sorry CoaCoaKnees
You're just tooooooo nice
And your knees don't even taste
(cough)
sorr-e
(Cough)
And your knees don't even taste
like CoaCoa
Let's
Just
Be
Humans who live on the same planet
Known as earth, sharing the same struggle
Why are we still here... just to suffer
I knew that I had to rethink my strategy
oh uh by the way if you are
entertained while we're still on this page be sure to click that like button
the subscribe button and the bell
and then I remembered when I was in school
the 3 R's
Re- treat
re - cry
and re get some advice from your friends
Hey gai just go on an online dating website you totally get a girlfriend there
so of course I tried
and it was fun but then
it didn't work but that's okay
the online dating I'll get into another time because that was quite the
adventure
then I came time to go to school because I wanted a career
Shame on all you guys who think that school is not worth it because school is
totally worth it for me but for different reasons
I was in an electrical
program because the trade industry actually is doing quite well here in
Canada the program I took in particular was very valuable in terms of the
lessons learned completely unnecessary in terms of joining the career because
apparently the unions here will actually pay for you to learn
there's no sponsorship or anything here either
but alas I was still artistic at heart
so I would like ahh go to the life drawing courses
for the art students and get
some extra drawing in to hone my skills
please don't report me
because it was an arts school I met plenty of grills
and boys too but mostly grills
oh just to clarify the program has a class called life drawing the life
drawing class is where we draw nude models without clothes long to study the
human figure and then once the life drawing class is over like after all
classes are finished for the day they have something called after life drawing
which is extra life drawing for the students that want some extra practice
thus it's the afterlife for the purpose of context
this one kid that I met in
the afterlife drawing class
she thought I was this legendary artist
who drew there sometimes
on occasions
her being ignorant assume that I was him even though I 'add a mentally' told
her I was not
she begged to see my drawings to which I politely declined
but why wouldn't she show her your drawings
you must be thinking well it is
a very huge issue at these art schools where the students would hover over your
shoulder while you're trying to draw and beg to see your work hence I shut her
down besides I drew this for your eyes only
the one day
she had this huge smirk on their face
I saw your drawings already
I don't need to see them anymore
Grrrr I was Soo Angry!!
I was MAaad!
it's only, It's only a game why do you
heff to be med?
I'll stop being mad
Oh ah before you jump to conclusions about what you are seeing
I just want to let you know that she is not a minor he just thinks like one not a miner.
She just thinks like one
not that I look much older
hold it maa'm Texas hold it right there
in response
to yourself and politely invading my personal space
now you're joining me for dinner.
ah, so anyway that's it my budgets run out so if you
want to see more be sure to do those things that you do to those buttons that
we all have an unhealthy addiction to and there's no pressure just be sure to
know that for every second you don't hit those buttons these puppies are gonna
keep falling off this cliff here okay let's start
oh that was fast
Guess people like dogs more than cats
thank you for watching my
video and stay tuned for part two
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vampire: V5 Episode Eight - The Sects - Duration: 26:11.
This may be our final lesson for a little while, little neonate. It is always a
pleasure to listen to the sound of my own voice, and you have been so
obediently silent as I have been teaching you. Still, your sire has asked
for me to teach you the fundaments of two of our major sects, and I may touch
on the third. The Camarilla and the Anarch Movement. Once upon a time,
one fit uncomfortably within the other. But these nights they are very much
distinct. A Camarilla... Well, the Camarilla was formed as a result of the Anarch
Movement. Not many princes would remind you of that now, not in these nights, but
the Anarch Movement came first. As I explained to you once before, it was the
elders misuse of their neonates, it was the Inquisition of the Mediaeval and
Middle Ages that resulted in the Anarch Movement, forming many disgruntled youths
among our kind, tired of being used on the battlefield by elders who did not
care for their fate. They rose up, they said "No more!" and they struck down great
and powerful Kindred from all clans. But there were a number...
My clan founder? He fell. Although some would say that was not the Anarchs, I
certainly would. The founders of Clan Tzimisce, of Clan Lasombra,
they are said to have fallen as well, although events in recent nights would
certainly advise us otherwise. Either way, the Anarchs led a successful
campaign against the elders, the eldest of the clans, and what were the other
vampires to do? They could not allow this to
stand. They could not allow their own neonates, their own childer to constantly
nip at their heels, take down their power bases, and let their domains fall to
anarchy, could they? Back then, the Anarch Movement was
referred to as the Promethean Movement or the Furore Movement — there were a
various number of wings to it — but "the Anarchs" is how they became known. The
Camarilla formed when clans: the Ventrue, the Toreador, the Tremere, the
Gangrel, Nosferatu, the Brujah, the Malkavians, they came together and they said
"This cannot stand! If this continues we will all fall to the fires of the
Inquisition or to the swords of our descendants!" And so the Camarilla formed as a
result. It set down new Traditions, it set down that destruction could not
occur without sanction by a prince. It set down that Embraces should be
rationed. It set down that a Masquerade must be maintained. The Anarchs? Well, they
were suffering heavy losses as well, I think it is fair to say. The Anarchs — for
all their grand successes — were dropping by the dozen. At the time, the peace was
called for by such elders as Hardestadt and Raphael de Corazon. The Anarch Movement
decided "Yes, now is a good time to hang up our sabers and sue for peace,"
and so the Camarilla accepted the Anarch Movement within its ranks, providing they
abided by the Traditions. The Anarchs... for the most part they acceded. They
agreed. And they were allowed to stay Anarch providing they abided by the Camarilla
Traditions. Now, allow me to run that by you again: The Anarchs were allowed to
stay Anarch, provided they abided by Camarilla Tradition.
Was there therefore any difference between an Anarch and a Camarilla vampire?
The cynics among us said "No." The Camarilla saw this is a great victory, the Anarchs —
licking their wounds — saw it as salvation. The Anarchs who did not see it as salvation
went on to form the sect known as the Sabbat, which we will cover at some
other juncture. They are not an immediate threat to you
right now, little neonate, but I am fairly assured they will be returning soon. The
Anarch Movement largely formed of clans Brujaj, the Banu Haqim, Lasombra...
But disaffected youths of all clans. They rallied their troops, they set up
independent little domains around Europe, and eventually the New World, and they
lived in a relative peace. Their Traditions, their laws were looser, but
they were still Camarilla. The Camarilla meanwhile, they built their Ivory Tower
They ran a lot of domains in similar ways as they did before their foundation,
except with less overt tyranny over the kine. And the Camarilla, their most
important Tradition, their most important Tradition was Masquerade, and all other
Traditions largely fed into that one, because if there was rampant
destruction or rampant siring of fresh childer, the kine would take notice and a
Second Inquisition would arise, and we all know what happens when that occurs. I
hope you were listening to me when I spoke of it before. But the Camarilla, they
profited, they prospered over the next 500 years. The Camarilla was without doubt
the dominant sect worldwide. All Kindred were considered to be members of the
Camarilla whether they wanted to or not. If you were a neonate, a fledgling and you
did not know where to go, do not worry! The Camarilla would take you in, would
school in on the Traditions, and the prince would have dominion over your very
soul. I hope that sounds fair to you, because that is how it has been for a
very, very long time. The Anarch Movement, it did very little over this period.
Yes, they sometimes reached out and spawned fantastic
new utopias, but they fizzled out very quickly indeed. This is the issue with
rolling anarchy. Eventually it burns out. Eventually there is one vampire strong
enough to plant his standard and say "This domain is mine now, the laws are
mine, and everyone else must obey me." Anarch no longer, welcome to the Camarilla. Of
course, the Camarilla was just as subject to corruption.
Sometimes princes turned out to be secret agents of the Sabbat, sometimes
there were great revelations that would turn entire domains Sabbat, sometimes they felt
Anarch insurrection, sometimes they merely fell to civil war, but the Camarilla
was for the most part stable. I should speak on my clan briefly, because my clan
did sue for entry into the Camarilla on its formation. Their response was not warm.
It was not kind. They left us to the dogs, our own Anarch
descendants. And unlike other clans that fell to the Anarchs, they saw it as purely
a civil dispute. They do not care whose name was on my clan, as long as it was
kept within the clan ranks. The Camarilla did not care. Yes, some clans voted for
our inclusion, but others simply said "No, you shall remain independent as the
dominant force within your clan has requested," and so we were left to our own
destruction. Some of us anyhow. Times change so we
stood independent or within the Sabbat. Meanwhile the Anarchs were made up of
members of every single clan. No one clan was exclusively Anarch, at least not in
that time, but come the modern era, come the Second Inquisition, come Theo Bell's
successful — so I am told — decapitation of Hardestadt and even Jan Pieterzoon, the
Anarchs suddenly gained a second wind. Oh, I do not believe for a second that
convention in Prague where Theo supposedly planted a shotgun under the
chin of Hardestadt and blew his cranium open, is as cut and dry as the
Anarchs like to let us believe. And I know that Theo Bell does not wish to be
some hero to the Anarch Movement. I know that he does not desire that. Not one bit.
It just strikes me as very unlikely you, understand, that a Ventrue as old as
Hardestadt — dragon's breath rounds notwithstanding — would fall to a single
blast either. There was a lot more coordination and more knives in Hardestadt
than Julius Caesar suffered, or we are not hearing the whole truth. Either
way, Theo Bell, Brujah at large, former Archon of the Camarilla, he defects to the
Anarch Movement quite openly. And seeing him as a new Tyler — Tyler, the Brujah who
once struck down another Hardestadt in times before — they rally behind him, they
said "No more! We will not take this Ventrue hegemony any longer!" And you know, I
have heard that the Brujah were expecting support from the Nosferatu in this
little rebellion. I had heard that the Nosferatu had promised support and then
they retracted at the last minute, forming an interesting — shall we say — feud
between the clans in recent nights. I am interested to see how it goes in the
long run, but the Nosferatu — so I am told — leaked information of this rebellious
assassination to the Camarilla Justicars who conveniently forgot to tell Hardestadt,
securing Nosferatu place in the Camarilla. Truly an
emerald in the scepter, while the Brujah went on their own way.
Was this just a Nosferatu ploy to corral more favour and strength? Now they
are the enforcers, now they are the sheriffs, now they are the bodyguards
and philosophers while the Brujah are in the Anarch Movement. I do not know. You
would have to ask a Nosferatu who was there, and I doubt they would tell you
unless you had something very good to offer them. But do not be mistaken into
thinking Brujah are entirely Anarch. There are others often known as "Hellenes" who
cling to their Camarilla roots. These are the philosopher kings among the
anarchists. There are prominent Brujah such as Critias of Chicago. He remains
Camarilla. There are others, plenty of others, surprisingly. The number of Brujah
who were prince before this second Anarch Revolt remain prince tonight, and
remain Camarilla, because once you have a taste of power, it is quite difficult to
let it go or flip it to the Anarch Movement. After all, if you're a
successful Brujah prince, are you really going to want to invite revolts into
your city or invite change, unless you were immensely dissatisfied or craving
torpor? The Anarch Movement of course has also been bolstered by the Gangrel.
Gangrel, as we know, they left the Camarilla some two decades ago, or thereabouts, but
they only recently declared for the Anarch Movement, largely due to the
Brujah's successful attack on the Ventrue. It is an appropriate mix that the
Clan of Beasts ends up in the sect that lacks order, but where does that leave
the Anarchs tonight? It leaves them bolstered by Thin-Bloods and Caitiff, but
those two lines are also in some number present with in Camarilla domains. It
leaves the Anarch Movement with only one Tradition to uphold — the Masquerade — even
Anarchs know that that is an important tradition. And do not think for a second
that I am dismissive of the Anarchs. They have achieved great things and
sometimes corrupt power does need to topple in order to see a new
night for us, but time will tell. Will they be successful? Will they fall flat
just as they did before? And when they realise they are being harried by
inquisitors and Sabbat, will they come scuttling back to the Camarilla for
sanctuary again? Will Brujah and Gangrel pride allow it?
Another interesting inclusion to the Anarch Movement in these nights is the
Ministry. Yes, they have undergone a rebrand. The Followers of Set embracing
their polytheistic urges. The Clan of Faith now eschews the title of the Clan of
Serpents. They are once again the Clan of Faith. They are the spiritual advisors to
the Anarchs. Yes the Brujah are the philosophers, yes the Gangrel are the
warlords, but the Ministry? They will guard your soul. They will keep you
humane. They will guide you on the path to Golconda, if you ask them nicely.
Oh, there are many of us who doubt the honey on their tongues but the Ministry
have done a great deal to stabilize an otherwise rambunctious
sect. Likewise, the Camarilla, who for a while looked incredibly weakened with
numbers down to Ventrue, Toreador, Tremere, Nosferatu, and Malkavian appear
bolstered by the recent addition of the Banu Haqim, known derisively as Assamites —
but the Banu Haqim is how they like to be called and that is what
we shall call them — their introduction to the sect was significantly less
mercenary than the Ministry joining the Anarchs, at least by my perspective. You
see, the Banu Haqim they have always been a clan of lawmakers and law-
keepers. They are the judges of other Kindred if you believe the mythology, and
they realize that their clan was being abused from within, that one of their
Methuselahs was bound to destroy each and every one of them that did not tow
the line. A schism occurred and the Assamites —
the Banu Haqim — they joined with the Camarilla. A
ritual, an event known as the Vermilion Wedding I understand, it was Tegyrius
of the Banu Haqim on one side, Victoria Ash of the Clan Toreador on the
other. They unified before sight of the Ashirra and the Camarilla and it was that
binding that helped bridge the path of the Banu Haqim entry into the sect, which
from my understanding occurred in a very low key event in a kitchen in Odense in
Denmark. Very minor indeed. But from inauspicious events the Camarilla gains a
new clan. The Banu Haqim are now perhaps fit to replace both Gangrel and Brujah.
After all, what sheriff do you fear more? The one
who can barely control his temper, the one with features like that of the Beast,
or the one who knows your every weakness, knows where to strike the
dagger, can sneak up behind you and cut your throat?
I think domains with Banu Haqim sheriffs, lawmakers, tradition keepers
have a lot to fear but also a lot to be grateful for. After all, the Banu Haqim
aren't going to allow the Inquisition to gain a foothold. They are
very wise, very schooled. Some wonder how they will work with the Tremere. The
two clans have never got on terribly well before, but I hold out some hope
they can put ancient grudges aside in this new and dangerous time. The Camarilla
no longer considers that all Kindred are a member of their sect. The Camarilla are
an elite cabal in these nights. If you enter their domain and you are
not one of them, you had better find a use for yourself. Declare yourself to the
prince and hope that the prince does not extinguish or exile you immediately.
Because the prince will be tempted. For all they know you are some Typhoid Mary
bringing with you the Inquisition and who knows what. An Anarch rabble-rouser
waiting to take down their precious Ivory Tower. So you need to be useful to
the Camarilla. They will make you useful or they will
destroy you. Yes, an elite cabal indeed. You have to
prove yourself now to be among them. Their parties are no longer open to all.
The Succubus Club does not have open doors to every malcontent on the street.
You require an invitation now to attend a Toreador soiree. You require the
special key to be admitted to the Ventrue penthouse in the skyscraper. Even
the Malkavians will not touch Anarchs because the Malkavians — perhaps
wisest of all the clans in the Camarilla — they know what is coming they know what
is possibly on the horizon, and they will do whatever they can to secure their
position, and secure their sect. They know that they need the Camarilla to keep
themselves extant, and therefore they despise Anarchs.
It is an interesting turn of events, because you see almost more Ventrue
Anarchs now than Malkavian... and Nosferatu. Those two clans — often
considered the weakest within the sect — cling to its bars, its gilded cage, more
tightly than what was once known as a "High Clan" the Toreador and the Ventrue.
Ventrue Anarchs... They are an interesting breed, I will give them that. Often of a
libertarian stripe, who do not believe that they have to abide by Camarilla
Traditions in order to be profitable, in order to ascend to power, they believe
they can make their own way. They only need one Tradition. Everything else is
off their own back. They are intolerable
intolerable but very successful. I suppose our friend Marcus Vitel of DC is
a form of Anarch in that his domain is independent, but he upholds some of his
own traditions gleaned from the Dark Ages. It is interesting that perhaps the
most modern city in the United States is governed by a feudal warlord. Maybe
that is not so surprising. The Sabbat are still present. The Sabbat. The blood cult,
the murder organisation, the sect that vampires flock to when they have
given up on humanity. Do not forget that the Sabbat is a cult. If you are Embraced
into the Sabbat you are immediately washed with all kinds of propaganda
about what you should believe, the people you should hate, the kinds of crusade you
must embark on in order to survive. They still pursue their hunt for the
Antediluvians, for Methuselahs, for elders. They are bloodthirsty, they are savage,
they are to be feared. There is no doubt about that. They're not done with us just
because a great number of them left our shores and headed to North Africa, the
Middle East, to pursue the Gehenna Crusade. There are some that remain. What
I like to consider the stable ones — once known as the conservative or ultra
conservatives Sabbat — they hold on to their domains, they fight from the home
front, and do not think they have lost their vitriol, their venom. They're still
utterly lethal. These are interesting times for all three sects, because you
see changes wherever you go. I hear tell there are even some Lasombra making
entreaties to the Camarilla for admittance. After all did the Lasombra not say that
"The reason we did not join the Camarilla in the first place is because they denied
the existence of Antediluvians?" There was so much in common between Ventrue and Lasombra
They could be opposite sides of the same
coin. One in control of the feudal hierarchy,
one in control of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. But ultimately still High Clans. Still
Embracing from the best of the best, the cream of the crop.
Well the Lasombra are now seeing the Camarilla are not denying the existence of
Antediluvians. They are accepting sections of our mythos. Indeed, the Church
of Caine the Lasombra once hunted near to extinction is appearing in
various Camarilla domains, as are the Bahari. And so, where the Church goes, the
Lasombra often follow. Will this see a great migration of the Lasombra? I doubt
it. Many were embraced purely for battle,
purely for bloodshed. Some were Embraced for their tactics on the battlefield,
some were Embraced because they had the makings of a monster. Some do not wish to
give that up, but others — what I like to call the pragmatists among the Amici
Noctus, the Friends of the Night — they know the way the wind is blowing and
they know as their sect grows increasingly savage and bloodthirsty
their lives are not protected. It will be interesting to see. Will the Lasombra
make the supreme defection? Will the Camarilla even admit them? They are an
exclusive club, after all. But they are an exclusive club lacking members. You could
say the Banu Haqim took the role of the Gangrel, but in that case who will
take the position of the Brujah? Time will tell.
Where do I place myself in all of this? Well some Cainites consider themselves
autarkis, independent. My domain is nominally Camarilla. We uphold the
Traditions. We uphold the worship of Mithras of Clan Ventrue. We maintain the
Masquerade. We send our happy little reports to the Justicars.
We ensure there is no trouble on the streets and that Inquisitors are not
hounding us at every instant. So yes, I suppose we are Camarilla. I'm even held in
high regard by some of them, but I can see the temptation, I can understand why
the Anarchs do what they do, why they reach out for Humanity, why they emulate
revolution, why they instigate revolt. Because change is desirable. We cannot get
locked into the same positions we have been in for centuries. Because when we do,
stagnation occurs. Rot sets in. Another Inquisition comes. Likewise, I can
understand the drives of the Sabbat. We are monsters, after all. There is no
denying it. And there is only so long that you can
keep that leash on your Beast. But the Sabbat have a way, they have a way of
controlling their Beasts. They have a way of speaking to the heart of the vampire
and telling that vampire exactly what they want. Revenge. Blood. Power. That is
all at your fingertips if you are a member of the Sabbat. Still, my money is
on the Camarilla. If any sect is to survive these nights, the Camarilla will do so in
their bolt holes, in their castles, modern as they may be, made of glass and steel.
But they will survive. The Anarchs? Well, that's a flip of the coin. They will
either burn out like a galaxy or they will ascend to greatness.
They will usher a new way for we Kindred and Cainites. I'm very much looking
forward to seeing who comes out on top and whether the Sabbat return from that
crusade, glorious puffed and fed on the vitae of
Methuselahs. And when they come back as blood gods to
our world, what they will do to us. Then, whether Camarilla or Anarch will be able to
stand side-by-side against the ravages of the Sword of Caine.
Time will tell, little neonate. Thank you very much for listening.
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A Complete Guide to Using Filters in Photography - Duration: 18:55.
in 6:00 a.m. I'm stuck in the elevator I'm not stuck alright stop I'm getting
out of here and once I do I'm gonna shoot some pictures so over on my
Facebook group I asked what kind of videos do you guys want to watch what
sort of things do you want to see in a video and overwhelmingly people said
they want to see how to use filters so well I don't think that conditions are
perfect for filter photography this morning I'm gonna walk you through all
the filters I use why I use them how to use them and what they mean so we're
gonna walk down to the beach here it's ok cat There's a cat freaking out.
obviously before you use filters you need to find a photo and I'm down at
what they call the beach here on sea roast it's like a cement
I guess cement slab right onto the coast here it's actually really cool but
what's cooler than the beach itself is the view back this way it's almost like
almost like Venetian or what you see sometimes in Croatia you have
the houses right onto the sea and then here you have this Cathedral back this
way and there's a couple cool compositions I think a wide-angle lens
up here is cool and maybe a telephoto shot from a little farther back so I'm
gonna go for a little walk back this way and see what I see
after walking around a bit I think that a little bit farther backs the better
composition but I think this is better to teach you filters so I'm going to set
up here
so before I jump into deeper talk about each filter I think you need to
understand filters and I think the most important thing to understand about
filters is nd what is nd mean nd is neutral density neutral density
essentially it's just a dark in your image if I slide an ND filter and it
reduces the amount of light that comes through the camera and the an neutral is
for the idea that it's supposed to be neutral it's supposed to be gray it's
not supposed to add some sort of color cast your image but the truth is most
NDs actually do create some sort of minor color cast Lee filters are a little
bit famous for giving a bit of a blue cast others are famous for giving a
little bit of a magenta or green look the only ones I've ever found that were
really neutral were the fire crest filters by format hightech but I had so
many issues with them for example one time I bought an and an ND filter and
when it came the filter wasn't in the case so I had so many issues with them
that I just went back to Lee Filters the Lees might not be the absolute best
one but it is probably the most reliable now nd filters are defined based on
their stops so like one stop to stop three stops four stops carrying on all
the way to ten and even sixteen stops and one that means is how many stops of
light does that reduce from getting into your camera and if you don't understand
stops of light pretty simply there's three ways to manipulate a stop on your
camera shutter speed ISO and aperture one stop of aperture is like F 2.8 2 F 4
F 4 2f 5.6 at 5.6 f 8 f 8 to 11 16 and so on with shutter speed it's basically
by doubling the shutter speed every time so 1 second 2 seconds 4 seconds 8
seconds every time you double it you gain a stop of light and then with ISO
it's the same thing it's doubling it it's going from ISO 100 to 200 to 400 to
800 every time you double it you gain the stuff of light but just to make
things more confusing and ND filters are not always defined by one stop two stops
they're usually defined by a number zero point and the way it works is every zero
point three is one stop so if a grad ND for example which we'll talk about later
is zero point three that's one stop of light if it's zero point six that's two
at zero point nine that's one point two is four this is the Li ten
stop ND filter so that's a three point zero nd I'm not sure the reasoning
behind that but I'm sure there's good reason um it's getting brighter so let's
start putting some filters on okay so I've got a cool shot set up I think
simple but cool obviously you can use circular filters they exist I use square
filters I use the Lee filters they come with this attachment that goes on the
front of your lens so when you buy filters when you buy Lee filters or any
of the square filter systems you get adapters that go on the front of your
lenses and then you just put on the adapter and you pop it on like that and
then the filters I'll slide in and the reason the biggest reason I like the
square filters is they don't vignette use screw on filters they tend to
vignette a lot and even if they don't this is really nice because I just leave
the adapters on all the time and if I switch lenses I just pop this
off and I put it on to my other lens the meter says f11 0.4 seconds ISO 100 I
want to slow that down to about 30 seconds to really smooth out this water
as you guys probably know that's kind of my thing so I'm gonna put a six top ND
filter that's just a pure nd so I'm on manual right now as I slide this in is
gonna go totally black it's completely black so now I'm compensating for these
stops by sliding up my shutter speed and six stops of light brings me to what
looks good at about 20 seconds and so if I just fire that I now have a 20 second
shutter which is a massive difference from the zero point four second shutter
so that's what an ND does it allows you to slow down the shutter speed or I
guess to drop the aperture as well it would be a good reason there's actually
a ton of reasons why to use an ND filter or how to use an ND filter and I think
that's a video for a whole other day but usually use it to slow down the shutter
speed to smooth out water or waterfalls or things like that get motion and
traffic sometimes you use it to drop the aperture if you're shooting portraits
especially and you want to drop the aperture for some reason and sometimes
people use them in flash photography as well so that they can get their camera
down to syncing speed with off-camera flashes if they're shooting like in the
middle of the day there are some Chuck's making love in the background some
animals have no respect I'm trying to film a video here
okay so it's getting a little bit brighter in the sky and I'm gonna throw
on the second type of filter the second type is a grad filter you can see this
it's dark on the top it's bright on the bottom this is a one point two medium
grad ND filter and I think grad filters are where people get the most confused
you know one point two means four stops what you don't know is that they come in
three different kinds actually four different kinds of filters
there's the medium grad which I'll just slide in now I'm basically soft medium
and hard basically define how gradual the transition is from the bright part
to the dark part of the image soft grads has a really slow transition so it helps
you use it when there's things like mountains or buildings around and you
won't get a hard line of darkness a hard grad has a really hard line to straight
across so it can be used when you're on like the Seon Coast with flat horizons
or the prairies I want to telephoto but that's again another video for another
day and then grad filters they usually come in one two three or four stops and
when they're talking about stops on grad filters they're talking about how dark
is the darkest part of the grad filter and if I'm being totally honest never
have I ever used a one-stop grad nd I tend to use three stops more than
anything I use four stops quite a bit and I'll use my to stop every now and
then but let me slide each one of these filters into the camera just for you to
have a look at what what the difference is
so it's getting brighter and basically I'm just evaluating the bottom half of
this image for brightness and I've come to 11 F 11 15 seconds the six top nd is
still in and I'm just gonna slide in these grad filters to show you the
difference starting with probably the most popular grad filter that people use
the three stop soft Brad nd so as we slide this in you'll
see it on the live view it'll just slowly make the top of the image darker
and you can see that transitions really nice and soft so you actually can't tell
there's a filter there so eventually this is probably the filter I'm going to
use but I'll show you the other two three four filters that I have this is
the three stop hard grad so I use this on my telephoto lens has a hard line on
the transition so you'll see when I slide it in you can see the line is much
harder and sometimes it can be a bit harsh you can see in the buildings it's
too dark there there's not enough of a transition this is the two stops off
20.6 soft and again it does that soft grad thing but you can see it's not
taking enough out of the sky it's pretty close but needs probably one more stop
and then finally this is the four stop medium grad so it's got a medium
gradient and it's four stops out at the top we slide that in it cuts that down
but as you can see it's a little bit probably too dark in the sky so let's
shoot a photo or two with this three stop soft ride and see how that comes
out
I've switched on my composition to kind of get lower and use some sort of
leading line leading straight up to this church I think it's coming out pretty
cool I've also switched up my ND filter to
the four stop medium grad just because it's so bright in the sky right now and
a lot of you are probably going to ask how do you decide which filter to use
and I wish there was a better answer than me saying it's trial and error but
essentially that's what it is it's trial and error when you're starting you need
to look at it through the camera and decide what looks best how much light do
you want to reduce there's no magic formula in photography two filters you
go up to your scene and you decide how you want to manipulate it and how you
want it to look if you're thinking about buying filters I highly recommend that
your first filters be a three stop soft grad or a three stop medium grad and a
six stop nd I shoot the vast majority of my shots on those filters I also carry
from an Envy standpoint I carry a three stop ND and a 10 stop nd so I carry four
grads and three hard end DS and I guess that brings me to the final filter which
is the polarizer
so essentially if you're using the square filter system like the lis system
the polarizer screws right on to the front element that is an extra buy if
you're buying filters joys you get to buy lots of stuff when you're buying
filters polarizer serve a totally different purpose than a regular nd yes
you lose a stop of light too when you put one on but what it does
essentially is it cuts the glare or reflection out of things so in this
scenario I've come really close to the water and the circular polarizer is
twisted the opposite way so you're gonna see as I get this set up properly that
there's total reflection white stuff on the water and you can't see to the rocks
below now if I spin the circular polarizer like this it's going to
totally cut out the reflection completely
and polarisers kind of kill the sky a lot of times in certain situations so
you have to be careful how you use them but if you're trying to cut through
glare there you can't do that any other way there's no other way you can't
photoshop that that's something that has to be done in camera with a polarizer so
they're extremely important for that reason to give you a great example
if you're in Antarctica if you go to Antarctica or the Arctic or anywhere
there's icebergs and you take pictures of an iceberg
there's always gonna be this glare on the surface this reflection on the
surface so you don't actually see anything under the water if you put a
good polarizer on and you have an iceberg in the right light it actually
cuts totally through the surface level reflection and you can see parts of the
iceberg under the water they're also used in a lot of cases to cut glare on
cars and automotive photography they're basically just used to cut reflection
all the time in the right situations in the daytime - they also make the clouds
a little bit punchier so there's a lot of reasons to use a polarizer I
neglected using a polarizer for years just because I didn't think it was that
valuable and and now that I use one I find it so so invaluable
lots of talking today I know but I think that's how tutorial videos kind of have
to be as much fun as it is to get out the world and shoot photos yeah I think
it needs to be walked through and talked through I don't think I got photos I
love this morning but it's a little bit hard to shoot and do a tutorial but you
guys understand that one last filter I want to talk about before I end this is
the variable ND filter and I don't have one on I don't own one and what a
variable nd is is an ND filter much like the solar the circular polarizer that as
you spin it the nd gets darker and darker
so as you spin it it starts out at two stops or three stops and then it can
spin all the way to a 10 stop nd and a lot of people especially people kind of
on a budget will think of that as a very good alternative to you know a whole set
of filters because in a way it seems like 10 different filters in one and I
can't argue with that logic it does make sense it does work if you're gonna only
want an ND filter and no Grad filters or polarisers or anything stacked sure that
makes sense getting then get a variable ND filter but the real reason variable
ND filters were created is for video shooters so using a variable ND filter
video people can walk around as they're shooting and just manipulate the light
getting into the camera by spinning the variable nd by doing that they can go
from bright situations to dark situations without having to change the
aperture or the shutter speed or anything they just literally use their
finger as they're filming their hand cups the camera like this I don't think
I'll be able to do this one-handed but their hand cups the camera like this and
then they just use one finger on the variable nd to move it around to make
sure they have the proper exposure I do think though if you're gonna buy filters
invest in the square system because in the long run it's gonna be cheaper you
don't need filters for every single lens you use and in my opinion it's just a
better system you don't need the Lea system if you're starting out and you
can't afford it I use coconut and years and years and yes they do a bit of a bad
color cast but they're cheaper and they get you by like I said
early on if you're starting with filters as well don't go to lis and buy their
big fancy landscape photography kit because it's too much and I don't think
it gives you enough for the cost I would go out buy a Lee foundation system the
adapters you need for your lens is a six stop nd that's the lead little stopper
and a three stop soft or a three stop medium grad indeed that's all you need
to get started the final thing I need to say is that filters can if you treat
them well last forever this is also by Lee and just so you guys know Lee does
not sponsor this video in fact I have reached out to Lee on two or three
occasions and they've never even gotten back to me so no Lee is not sponsoring
this video I just use their stuff because I like it this is the filter
case system that I use from Lee as well and it just keeps all my filters in
there I see people packing them around in the original packing all the time to
keep them protected you don't really need that this case will hold it I've
broken four filters in the past year just from dropping them that's because
I'm clumsy but other than that other than just dropping them on pavement like
dropping them straight on pavement or dropping them off cliffs like I did in
Iceland they're pretty scratch resistant they're pretty durable I've had this
filter which I dropped once and cracked the top corner that's the three stop
hard filter I bet that filter for three years they do last a long time they are
an investment but I think they're totally worth it I think that when I
started photography the biggest thing missing was my understanding of filters
and by learning filters and by going out and buying filters it stepped my game up
I became a better photographer because of filters and I think that's the one
piece of kit of all the things I've bought that has made me a better
photographer upgrading my body didn't make me a better photographer upgrading
my lenses didn't make me a better photographer upgrading and buying
filters it made me a better photographer so yeah that's that that's the video
today if you have any questions or if I skipped anything or missed anything or
if you want to see a filter specific video drop a comment below with any
questions you might have or any ideas you might have or any thoughts you might
have on filters I've also written a blog post about filters so if you guys want
to check that out there's a link in the description of this video
well so that's it losing my voice from the long talk and I guess I'll see you
guys later today when I start today's vlog see you there
peace
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Shrine of the Storm Dungeon Guide - Heroic and Mythic Shrine of the Storm Boss Guides - Duration: 5:21.
Hi!
I'm Hazel, and this is a guide to the bosses of the Shrine of the Storm dungeon of BFA.
The Shrine of the Storm entrance is found here, in Stormsong Valley.
It's a damp, windy place where the line between octopi and Old Gods just starts blending together.
The first boss is Aqu'sirr, and his platform borders the sea.
If you go into the sea you're not coming out, so be extra careful about knockbacks.
This boss MUST have someone within melee range to punch or else he starts ruining everyone's
day with Sea Blast.
Choking Brine is a DoT that does moderate damage over 20 seconds.
If it's dispelled, big swirls shoot out that apply Choking Brine to anyone that they hit.
If you're going to dispel it, make sure that everyone is ready to dodge or else you might
just make it worse.
He'll cast Surging Rush, and then charge and knock back anyone in the direction he's facing.
When he starts the cast, look where he's facing and get out of the way.
The tank should be ready to go pick him back up once he's done, before he gets lonely and
starts Sea Blasting.
Undertow does damage and pushes back one player over 6 seconds.
Fight against the pushback if it's you and healers should keep an eye on the targets
health.
At 50%, the boss casts Erupting Waters and splits into three adds.
They all do EVERYTHING that the boss did, so you'll get triple Surging Rush, Undertow,
and Choking Brines.
They'll also Sea Blast if nobody's in melee of them so have at least one person standing
on each one.
Focus them down one at a time, avoid dispelling Choking Brines and try not to get knocked
off.
When all three die, the boss comes back at 15% health.
On Heroic and higher, you'll also deal with Grasp from the Depths.
That spawns tentacle adds that root and damage players.
Turn and kill the tentacles to free your friends, and avoid dispelling Choking Brine while players
are still rooted.
The Tidesage Council is two bosses that don't share a health pool, so focus one down first.
Starting with Galecaller Faye is a generally a good bet.She casts Slicing Blast.
That does damage and stacks up a Nature Damage Taken buff over time.
Kick it as often as you can, and healers should save cooldowns for later in the fight once
it's stacked up.
At 100% mana, Faye plants a Swiftness Ward on the ground underneath Brother Ironhull.
That grants 10% haste and movement speed along with immunity to movement impairs to both
players and bosses within it.
Drag the bosses out of that and you guys can stand in it.
On Heroic and higher, Faye gets the Blessing of the Tempest which causes interrupting her
to spawn a Blowback tornado.
Chill on interrupts while she has that and wait out the buff before you start kicking
again.
Brother Ironhull does a Hindering Cleave, which hurts and slows down anybody in this
small frontal cone.
Don't be in front of Ironhull unless you're a tank.
At 100% mana, he drops a Reinforcing Ward under Galecaller Faye.
That decreases damage taken by a lot and dispels harmful effects to anybody in it.
Once again, get the bosses out of it ASAP and players can stand in it to benefit.
On Heroic and higher, Ironhull will get the Blessing of Ironsides buff, which makes him
slow but very scary.
The tank should kite him around during this buff, and watch out for Swiftness Wards which
will make him fast and very scary.
Lord Stormsong is the third boss.
He spams Void Bolt on the tank for the whole fight, which does pretty heavy damage.
Rotate kicks and cooldowns to help deal with that.
Waken the Void spawns orbs next to each player.
These will fixate and do an explode/stun combo if they hit somebody.
Kite them around and try not to pop them- you'll need them later.
Ancient Mindbender Slorps onto somebody for 20 seconds.
You can still control your character, but you become attackable by the party.
You need to be brought below half health before your 20 seconds is up or else you get Mind
Controlled for the rest of the fight.
If it's on you you want to run around into the Orbs to clean them up and help damage
the Mindbender off.
The stun won't affect you, so everyone else can stand clear and you can gobble up all
the orbs.
The group can also help DPS you down if there aren't enough orbs or if you're running out
of time.
On Heroic and higher, there's also a Mind Rend debuff that goes out onto random players.
That slows movement while doing damage.
Healers can and should dispel that as soon as possible.
It's hard to kite orbs when you're slow.
Vol'zith the Whisperer is the final boss of this dungeon.
Whispers of Power goes out onto a ranged, starting with the healer.
It stacks up a debuff that increases damage and healing done, but makes the target unable
to be healed over 90% hp.
At two stacks that becomes 80%, and so on up to 9 stacks and only 10% health available.
Let it stack up as long as it's safe, and dispel it once it gets risky.
Yawning Gate spawns a huge damage zone under the boss.
Tanks should pull the boss to the edge of the room or the edge of another gate to avoid
blocking off too much space.
Throughout the fight, tentacles spawn and Tentacle slam for shadow damage.
Keep an eye out for those, they hurt and they're also a bit tough to see.
It's dark down here.
At 100% energy he'll cast Grasp of the Sunken City, which is a classic Old God add phase.
The healer and tank get put in a phasewith a Sunken Denizen, and the dps get put in a
separate phase with two Forgotten Denizens.
The first group to finish their adds gets put into the second group's phase to help
with theirs, and you resume the fight when all three adds are dead.
You've got a breath bar ticking down this whole time so if you're too slow you'll all
drown and die.
The Sunken Denizen hits pretty hard and isn't very fast.
Nuke it down and the tank can kite it around if it's too much.
Forgotten Denizens cast Consume Essence, which is a huge painful AOE lifesteal.
Focus them down one at a time and use interrupts to stop that heal.
On Heroic and higher, you'll also deal with Call the Abyss.
Adds spawn around the edges of the room and move towards the boss, exploding for raid
damage if they make it.
Stun, slow and kill them.
So, that should get you through Shrine of the Storm.
Thanks for watching!
Let me know what you think, leave a like for me if this helped you out and have a wonderful,
wonderful day.
Bye!
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege – Operator Starter Guide Ash - Duration: 1:37.
Introducing Ash.
Ash is a fast-paced Front liner, capable of breaching, flanking and dividing the Defenders' attention in seconds.
To play Ash well, practice your aim, reflexes and learn the patterns of roaming defenders.
Ash should be one of the first to enter a building, clearing rooms to allow her team to prepare their assault on the objective.
UNIQUE ABILITY
Ash is capable of ranged soft breaching thanks to her modified M120 CREM Breaching Rounds.
She is best played on the move, communicating with her teammates to either open up paths and lines of sight
or to coordinate lightning strikes.
Ash's rounds have infinite range and can also take out a variety of defensive capabilities
including some Defenders unique abilities.
Experiment with breaching rounds to learn their various uses in the field.
DO & DON'T
Don't: Waste valuable breaching rounds by firing them at enemies!
DO: Open up sight-lines for team-mates and create breach entries for shielded allies.
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Insane New PRO COMP No One Is Talking About! - Overwatch Guide - Duration: 7:13.
it has been absolutely crazy as of lately barreling through every high
level game burning through the enemy lines I'm talking about a sentient
hamster and a former Starcraft pro turned mecha pilot that's right
hammond eva is the new kid on the block and i'm here to show you how to play
this beastly comp my name is nate and welcome to Blizzard guides,
in this video
I'm going over the absolutely insane strategy that's been cropping up
everywhere and how to run it effectively I'm going to be focusing on the tank
lineup but I will dive into the DPS and support that you can run with it as well
this comp hasn't been getting as much exposure as it should so I really just
want to let you guys know about it so that you can have an edge in the game
I've been running at nearly every game on my main account and it's been
absolutely no need to say the least destroying the ever so common Rhines
area so with that said let's get into this video at number 5 I'm going to be
explaining the crazy potential that this comp has you can not only deal hundreds
of points of damage nearly enslaved but you can also pretty much get a free pick
with every coordinated jump that you do heaven and Eva have their piledrive and
rocket barrage respectively allowing them to quickly burst down squishy
sequentially you take that concept + divas matrix and haman shields and you
get a comp that can just get in and out on the blink of an eye hemin jumps in
and Paul drives with Deva coming in slightly behind matrixing Hammond and
then using boosters and left-click finishes off targets that are low with
the help of Hammonds damage technically neither our main tanks but they are
potent enough to not require such a shield reliant comp if you've run a DPS
that can also help out with the damage or crowd control you can just keep the
douve targets stop for a good 4 to 5 seconds allowing you to melt them before
they can move out of the way it is really simple to execute the dive but in
the mid fight and subsequent fight it is a bit more difficult so I'll be
explaining both diva and Hammonds roles respectively
at number four Hammond Hammond job in executing the dive is just pretty simple
jump in pile drive shield shoot and then get out over once you get the kill it's
a bit different if you're low you either want to just fall back to your support
and get healed up to provide them with safety in old church or you want to get
a health pack if there's one immediately available right there if you aren't low
you just want to go in for another kill if possible with the help of your Deva
or DPS then this is a part that most humans do not understand rather than
going back in and playing point and just staying directly next to your teammate
you actually want to push up slightly forward using that hook and speed to
literally just harass and booper on the enemy lines you can pretty much move
around to any enemy that you want so if you can essentially separate each enemy
by themselves and then just chain a pile drive onto the most dive of all enemy
you'll open up areas for your DPS to then swoop in and finish off the kill on
the now separated enemies it's harder to dive a ball of enemies that are
clustered together than it is to dive a single target that's away from their
team you can keep repeating this coming back to your supports when your shield
to cool down as far away and you're half HP and the last thing is just that when
you built your old up you just want to use it not necessarily to contest the
point but to create a safe space for your supports and DPS to stay in while
you may be very mobile sometimes your supports will not be so creating an area
for them to stay and it's more valuable than putting it on point or at a choke
you can still put it on a point or add a joke but if your supports are important
to capping a point or defending one you probably want to just keep them safe
with that alt rather than directly using it for damage at number three divas
rolled divas roll is pretty simple for this kind of comp so this point will be
a shorter one just like when you attack the first target you're just going to
want to do the same thing as diva during the mid fight if you're Hammond goes in
pile drives you want to be there to swoop in and use your rockets or
left-click to finish them off Emmons piledrive usually doesn't run 100 damage
if your Hammond does the combo right so it's easy to kill the targets your
Hammond dives as diva then once that first dive is up you just want to be
watching your Hammond and looking for targets he harasses and dives if he
doesn't do that and plays back you're just going to want to play back on the
point with your Hammond essentially what you're going to be doing is just wait
for your Hammond to disrupt somebody and then you help to kill if your Hammond
does disrupting from an ineffective position like point that's okay just
make sure you're there to help and also you're usually going to be the only
player being able to contest the high ground so be sure to always watch for a
hit skin or Hansa that's on high ground killing your supports you'll have to
dive in matrix them if that happens at number two I'm going to be going over
the DPS that work well with this comp first and foremost just like with how
dive usually had a Genji tracer this comp will use dofus Sombra doofy Sombra
are by far the best heroes for this comp dufus can dive in and play with the
Hammad while Sombra hacks the targets that might have crowd control for your
hemant or doom fist you can usually also heck the shields of the enemy to allow
for quicker kills and then go invisioned scout out the next target from the
enemy's backline however if your team doesn't have a summer or doom fist I'm
going to give you a few other options if you have a mercy fair is also a super
strong option referre is also a good option and if you have illusio with that
reaper he's even better Hanzo can be good sometimes but that's
assuming that your Hansa has good aim I've seen some players run soldier here
as well but that can be kind of iffy because if the enemy mirrors you they're
just going to farm your soldier and finally wouldn't make her is something
that can be done but you have to play super far back as Widow and you can't
play very aggressive because of the lack of peel that you'll get and lastly at
number one the support lineup the best option by far is in a lucio if you have
a good ANA player having Nano as an option is super powerful and with the
speed boost you can get your DPS and tanks in there in a flash run these if
you can but if you can't both Moira and mercy are good replacements for Ana run
mercy if you have DPS that are going to be playing very far away or in the air
like Hanzo widow or fara and run Moira if you have DPS like Reaper drum fist or
anything that is just relatively close quarters for the off fuels you can't
really run Sun very well your Zen will get farm pretty heavily so then I would
definitely stay away from Brigitta is a solid option definitely viable if you
can get your bring in the right spot to deal damage with the Hammond it just
requires a bit more coordination though so be prepared for them anyway let me
know if this guide helped you guys out to understand the comp a bit better I
made this video because I haven't seen it covered very much when it's pretty
much just the only thing that I've been running on my Mane which is sitting at
low GM, so I wanted to give this a bit more exposure and cover it in a bit more
of an informative way rather than just reporting on it and saying
that it is a thing it works a lot like traditional dive with some minor
differences if this video helped you out leave a like and comment how it helped
you out I'd love to get some feedback so that I can focus on what helps and what
didn't in a similar vein if it didn't help you
out let me know in the comments down below why it didn't help you out so I
can get rid of the stuff that is unhelpful I'm just trying to help
everyone out the best that I can if you like what we've going on here and you
want to see more tips and tricks videos get subscribed and notified so that you
never miss our uploads in addition to content like this we have weekly
highlight videos so that you can see the best place from around the globe anyway
I hope you guys enjoyed this video have a nice day
my name is Nate and the Swiss blizzard guides.
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Bosch eBike presents "A day in a life of a mountain guide" - Duration: 2:10.
I grew up here in the Grisons mountains.
It is unique to work here and to share the beautiful nature with my guests.
It is always an experience to get up in the morning,
to look around and to see the beautiful mountains.
I've always been riding my bike to the huts. But with an eBike, it's just a different feeling.
It's just great to race through the trails. It feels perfect.
I am Marco Benz and I am a mountain guide.
Today we are at the Es-Cha hut and go on the Piz Kesch.
The most important thing about my job is of course safety, but also fun.
With the eBike, this has reached a completely different dimension.
Mountaineering, nature and eMountain biking - that's my flow!
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Alien's Guide to THE PURGE - Duration: 6:09.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema. I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid.
This week's artifact is "The Purge," starring nine time X-Games gold medalist Tony Hawk.
The film takes place on Earth in the 21st century, when apparently things got so bad with Doritos Tacos
and Snapchat and shit that the government decided it would be an improvement to legalize murder.
Not all the time, of course — that would be crazy. Just one day a year. And not even a full day. Half a day.
That's almost less than not doing it at all.
Our protagonist is James Sandin, the best damn home security salesman this side of the Mississippi Ocean.
He's living the American dream:
a beautiful home
a non-descript wife
and kids who treat him with semi-hostile indifference.
"Okay? 'kay?
The Sandins sit down to a leisurely dinner, not particularly concerned about the impending free-for-all fuckfest.
Then, five minutes before it begins, they remember, "Oh yeah, all crimes are about to be legal. Better lock up now."
Christ dude, you didn't even set an alarm?
Almost immediately the son lets in an injured guy off the street, and the daughter's boyfriend sneaks in.
It's fine though, because James cuts down that punk boyfriend as any proud father should.
Even ones that work in entertainment and don't seem all that tough.
*cracking knuckles*
Anyway, just when you think the movie is gonna end after thirty minutes,
a gang of rascally teens shows up wearing masks on their faces and guns on their hands.
They're hunting that injured homeless man for sport, you see,
and they want to finish him off real real bad.
"You failed to deliver the homeless swine!"
They tell James to hand him over or else they'll come inside and purge all over the place.
Which is not great news because James's security system is a piece of shit.
The Sandins beat up the injured guy for awhile and tie him up with duct tape, the Milky Way Galaxy's favorite tape.
"He's gonna break this tape!"
But their heart isn't in it.
They decide that, just like philosopher Thomas Petty, they can't do him like that.
The teens break into their house and destroy everything
but also occasionally stop to watch the family in silent contemplation.
This confusingly bipolar strategy allows the Sandins to off a few of them,
but not before the leader kills James with a knifey to the tum tum.
The neighbors show up and wipe out the rest of the teens, but now they want to kill the Sandins too,
because they're some Stepford-ass dillholes.
That's when the homeless guy decides to come back into the movie and save the day.
Mrs. Sandin refuses to kill the neighbors because at this point
she's riding the Tom Petty wave pretty hard.
The Purge ends and the homeless guy heads back...
well, not home, but somewhere good probably.
The Purge posits that the human psyche contained a light side and a dark side,
"Tie them up, we'll kill them right here."
just like the Jedi hobbits from Star Track.
The film highlights this duality with certain images, such as the white and blue bouquets displayed by Purge supporters
and Charlie's half charred nightmare machine.
March 21, the date on which the Purge occurs, was frequently the date of Earth's vernal equinox,
when day and night were exactly the same length.
It's also Karen's birthday, but no one needs to get her any gifts or anything. The opportunity to work here is gift enough.
Just as the Purge is intended to bring about a healthier and more balanced society,
the vernal equinox heralded the beginning of spring, a time of rebirth and renewal of Claritin prescriptions.
The date also had significance in Earth's fourth most successful religion.
Christians used to celebrate the resurrection of Young Jeezy on Easter, a date they calibrated using the vernal equinox.
Similarly, citizens in the film celebrate the resurrection of their society
on Purge-mas Eve with an almost religious fervor.
"Blessed be the new Founding Fathers for letting us purge, and blessed be America, a nation reborn."
The blue baptisias reference the Christian ritual of baptism, also known as the "dunkeroo."
Another focal point of the film is America's problems with social stratification.
Though the Purge laws are ostensibly race and class neutral,
they disproportionately target the disenfranchised, who are unable to afford diamond-edged blades
or truffle-infused security systems to protect themselves.
"The poor can't afford to protect themselves. They're the victims tonight."
The film's antagonists are dressed in prep school attire, the garb of the wealthy elite,
and they treat the hunting of a homeless black "non-contributor" like just another extracurricular for their college apps.
This imbalance echoes the War on Drugs in the 1980s, when the clowns on Crapitol Hill
passed laws that were 100 times harsher for crack cocaine, a drug that plagued poor black communities,
than for its overachieving white powder-based cousin.
"Is the Purge really about money? Either way, crime is down. The economy is flourishing."
The Purge suggests that engaging in and consuming violence will relieve a person's desire to go bananas.
B-A-N-A-N-A...
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However, it quickly undermines that premise, concluding that doing so will simply desensitize people
and beget even more violence.
"American streets will be running red tonight when people 'release the beast' in record numbers."
Brutal images of murder are juxtaposed with boring old classical music,
underlining the idea that violence has ceased to shock and horrify and in fact might put you to sleep
because it's so freaking boring.
In Purge-world, humans watch the grotesquerie on TV for entertainment,
much as they watched their balls drop on New Year's Eve.
"We're just gonna lock down, watch some Purge events. Nothing special."
In a sense, "The Purge," a violent film in its own right, is a criticism of its own damn self,
as it provides an opportunity for the viewer to release some aggression
by watching a good old-fashioned bloodbath.
And in analyzing "The Purge," I have perpetuated the cycle once more.
Whoops!
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.
Lock your doors.
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Alien's Guide to AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duration: 5:23.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema.
I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid.
This week's artifact is American Psycho, based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis Island,
starring weight loss guru Christian Bale.
The film takes place in 1989, give or take a millennium.
Our protagonist is human investment banker, Patrick Batman, and he's got it all: a legally
blonde girlfriend, two layers of skin, and a brain disease that makes him all murder-y.
One day, his work friend, Jared Letoman, gets his drivers license, making Patrick's learners
permit look admittedly, pretty f**king dumb.
To bury the hatchet, he invites him over for some rhythm of the night and buries the hatchet.
Patrick leaves a FaceTime audio cover-up and a grossly inaccurate Terminator impression.
"Hasta la vista, baby."
Pretty soon, Norman Osborn starts asking questions about Letoman's disappearance from late
night, if only to inject some plot.
Luckily, he's not really into facts — "People just disappear."
— and they leave it at that.
Later that night, Patrick asks two lovable prostitutes to star in his porno, "Chitty
Chitty Gang Bang," and wraps production after the big coat hanger scene.
"We're not through yet."
When the Hooli CEO gets his license, Patrick hops back on the murder train, but learns
that he's gay and stops — since that would be a hate crime.
To clear his head, he books the prostitute for a sequel, but totally forgets to tidy
up his pad.
She's such a neat freak, she leaves without taking her chainsaw, forcing Patrick to throw
on some clothes and return it.
The next night, Patrick remembers his PIN and forgets his cat.
When a woman tries to cut in line, Batman tells her to wait in Hell.
The Fuzz asks what happened, so Patrick shows them.
He gives a janitor and security guard some time off, because he's such a nice guy,
and then booty calls his lawyer.
Whoops!
The following morning, Patrick's shocked to find his place spic and spandex, even though
his Roomba broke forever ago.
The film ends with Patrick running into his lawyer, and an astonishing Pepsi twist is
revealed: the lawyer doesn't charge for the hour.
American Psycho satirizes consumerist values through its portrayal of Wall Street yuppies,
long before Bitcoin became sentient and blew up Guam.
For Patrick and Co., meaning comes through what you own, reflecting the philosophy of
Herbie "Fully Loaded" Marcuse.
In his book, One Dimensional Man, he writes, "people recognize themselves in their commodities;
in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."
Personally, I recognize myself in my space jacuzzi.
The film lampoons the trivial pursuit of status when Batman and his colleagues compare business
cards.
To the casual observer, they're all Comic Sans.
But in Patrick's world, this becomes a tense power struggle over the slightest distinctions.
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it."
"Patrick?
You're sweating."
Similarly, the traders have become indistinguishable from each other.
I mean, they're all mammals to me.
And beneath the flashy exterior, there's no substance — "I simply am not there."
The film comments on human's preoccupation with looking mighty fine, often on Instagrammy.
People are so obsessed with Batman's superficial qualities that they fail to notice he's
gotten a haircut.
"I like to dissect girls.
Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
"Great tan, Marcus.
I mean, really impressive."
When Luis sees Batman struggling with a suspicious bag, all he cares about is who designed it
— "Where did you get overnight bag?"
The cost of his sheets is more important than the fact that they are clearly covered in
cranberry juice.
"I can only get these sheets in Santa Fe, these are very expensive sheets!"
Using visual imagery, the film draws a connection between Patrick's violent tendencies and
his material girlism.
What appears to be droplets of blood turn out to be a supremely decadent sauce, called
"Srirachacha."
Batman's call for dinner reservations is juxtaposed with some pretty hardcore pornography,
although I've seen worse.
When we see Batman's victims hanging in the closet like Valentino suits, we realize
that to him, human beings have been reduced to mere commodities and a bold fashion statement.
As Patrick's behavior grows more erratic, we begin to wonder how much of this documentary
is real.
When he visits Letoman's apartment, rather than encountering bodies and blood-soaked
walls, he meets only a realtor and a crazy-low asking price.
And his lawyer appears to contradict his confession.
"I killed Paul Allen."
"That's simply not possible."
"Why isn't it possible?"
"Because I had dinner with Paul Allen twice in London, just ten days ago."
These disparities could suggest that Batman's world is so jaded towards money, a realtor
would whitewash a murder house to get a good Zillow.
It could also suggest Batman's story is a fantasy, a warning that in such a culture,
the potential for maniacal violence could lurk inside any of us… any of us.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.
It's hip to be squared.
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Alien's Guide to THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - Duration: 4:43.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema. I am your host, Garyx
Wormuloid. This week's artifact is The Shawshank Redemption, based on
the novella by acclaimed wordperson King Stephen, who
ruled America with an iron fist for over two hundred years.
The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of Earthling Andy Dufresne, a
suspiciously over-qualified banker who is sent to prison for the
murder of his nameless wife. Once incarcerated, he befriends Red, who
is known to locate certain items from time to time and whose gentle baritone
could lull me right to sleep. Tired of doing boring stuff like
sliming the tops of buildings, Andy offers the guards financial advice,
which is like catnip for humans. The Warden quickly gives Andy an
unpaid internship, which seems like it's gonna be a great opportunity,
but ends up just being a lot of bitch work.
After twenty years, Andy decides he's had enough, despite the fact
that he's barely aged a day. The guys all think he's gonna kill
himself, but why bother when he's got that sweet hole in his wall
Later, Red gets lonely, and
asks if he can go now, and everybody says ok. He easily finds
Andy halfway around the world, presumably using satellite
technology, and then they chill at Club Med.
Other than the value of keeping posters in your room, the primary
theme of The Shawshank Redemption is freedom.
Many times we see the camera framed by doors and windows, suggesting
imprisonment. Conversely, aerial shots are used to indicate
liberation. In this shot, Andy experiences his last gasp of life
on the outside as the limo brings him to Shawshank. Later, he plays
Wolfgang Puck's "The Marriage of Figaro" for the other inmates,
using art to set them free. At the end, we see Andy and Red fully
torqued on freedom. But the movie goes even deeper.
Sure, it's about a prison and all the wacky adventures that happen
there, but lurking beneath is a hefty load existential undertones.
Typical Hollywood. In his essay "Existentialism is a Humanism,"
Jean Paul Sartre suggests that in the absence of God, humans must
define their own essence through the choices they make, and also
through the shampoo they use. In this film, instead of God, we
have the Warden, who is a "perverse deity" -- Satan masquerading as a
holy figure. He is always quoting the Christian bible and bragging
about how many passages he has memorized, yet he is arbitrarily
cruel and spiteful. He has a stitchwork quote about judgement on
his wall, but behind it is the vault where he keeps records of his
illegal activities, and probably some nudie mags.
According to Sartre's analogy: An artisan uses a tool to craft an
object. He determines its essence, and the object has no say in the
matter. Sucks for you, object! Similarly, if humans were crafted
by God, that would mean humans have no say in their essence either.
Sartre contends that "each man makes his essence as he lives," and
God plays no part in it.
And he was right, just a little premature: as we all know, the
being known as God abandoned Earth in the year 1991.
Because of the Warden, inmates are not in charge of their own essence,
or even their own bowels. The institution breaks them and the walls come to
define who they are. Brooks loses his ability to live in
the free world and turns to the seedy underworld of graffiti before
ultimately calling it quits. Prison robs people of their will to
freedom, and by extension, their humanity.
Sartre contrasts human beings with objects such as rocks, noting that
rocks are their characteristics, whereas human beings create their
characteristics, even if those characteristics are forged by
wasting away in front of their television sets. Most of the
prisoners become rocks -- they allow their lack of physical
freedom to dictate their sense of absolute freedom. In contrast, Andy
doesn't become a rock, he sculpts and breaks rocks with his trusty
hammer, Thor Jr. The salvation lying within the Bible is not God,
but rather Andy's choice to embrace hope and liberate himself
by any means necessary: in this case, a
conveniently human-sized pipe.
Andy tells Red he'll laugh when he sees the rock hammer -- in a place
like Shawshank, hope is truly laughable. Plus, small things are
funny.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.
Thank you for watching.
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Alien's Guide to A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Duration: 5:52.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema. I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid. This week's
artifact is A Clockwork Orange, directed by famed auteur Stanley Q-Bert and starring Terence
Stamp lookalike Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
The film centers on Alex, a typical teenager who does typical teenager things, like drinking
milk to build strong bones and using crowbars to break strong bones. His family life is
stable, so it's unclear where his aggression comes from. Maybe he's born with it. Maybe
it's Maybelline.
Saturday night and they in the spot. But rather than pop over to the soda fountain, Alex and his
lackeys figure why not stage an impromptu home invasion? That puts Alex in a singing
mood, but soon the lackeys start pushing to do guest vocals, so Alex has to cut them from
the label. Without missing a beat, they betray him and he gets sent to the biggest house
of all: jail. Hey man, no use crying over spilled lactation fluid, as the saying goes.
Later, the mayor of England comes to the prison looking for test subjects for the Lenscrafters
rehabilitation technique, so Alex says sign me up, Scotty. Scotty? Who's Scotty? Karen,
who's Scotty? Anyway, Scotty forces him to watch a nonstop cycle of detestable images,
like war and multicam sitcoms. To add insult to injury, they put drops in his eyes to make
him cry like a wuss. The technique works, rendering Alex allergic to boobs, and they
send him on his merry way.
Only his way turns out to be decidedly less merry than previously reported. His parents
have traded in for a newer model, so Alex has no choice but to apply for membership
in the homeless guild. Unfortunately, the review board has other ideas. So does the
fuzz. Alex stumbles his way to the nearest house, where he uses his last ounce of strength
to get beat up by gravity.
Alex wakes up in the hospital to find that he's got that twinkle back in his eyehole.
The mayor of England apologizes for the whole Lenscrafters debacle and promises Alex a cushy
job in exchange for being a team player. Hooray, the system works!
A Clockwork Orange explores the idea that free will defines the human experience. Earthlings
may have been hopelessly misguided on every conceivable level,
but at least it was by choice.
The film's title, "A clockwork orange," refers to the absence of free will -- something organic
made to work mechanically. This is a metaphor for Alex, a human being who is psychologically
conditioned until he becomes an automaton. Or as I call it, Monday morning.
Alex is robbed of choice every time he's turned into a tool for someone else's agenda. The
Lenscrafters technique reduces him to a political asset by shady government bigwigs. The writer
and his dissident friends seek to use him as a pawn to promote their criticism of said
large wigs. Then the government turns around and bribes him in an attempt to undo all the
damage they caused in the first place. What a tool.
The cyclical nature of clockwork is woven into the narrative itself by some sort of
celluloid spider. The film is essentially split in half: everyone Alex harms in the
beginning -- the drunk, his old gang, the writer -- returns to exact revenge after his
so-called rehabilitation. But despite all these coincidences, Alex doesn't learn from
his misdeeds. There is no real progress made by the end of the film, other than progress
the viewer makes through his DVR queue. Humans were stuck in a constant cycle between good,
evil, freedom, oppression- like clockwork. Or congress. Ladies, you know what I'm talking about.
Another motif is the obscene merger of violence and high brow cultural refinement, like the
way Beethoven straight up murdered his ninth symphony. Throughout the film, classical music
plays during violent acts, almost as if it doesn't care. Furthermore, several works of
art are perverted by graphic imagery that I should probably tell you is NSFW except
it's too late, you're already looking at it. Perhaps this high/low switcheroo serves as
an indication that culture is no guarantee of moral elevation. Or perhaps it's something
much more sinister: that violence can be an act of creation.
Indeed, Alex sees himself as something of an artist or performer, in the vein of a Carrot
Top or a Jared Leto. Thanks to his showmanship, he is the only character that approaches relatability
in the entire film, despite his horrendous acts. His surname, De Large, is essentially
a porno pseudonym. Personally, I would have gone with Lorenzo von Dongle. The fast motion
of Alex's "menage" suggests that the sexual act is not erotic, but more of a snooty performance
art piece. Alex's violence toward his lackeys unfurls in slow motion, giving it a kind of
balletic quality. The final shot of Alex having sex in the snow once again utilizes slow motion,
indicating a return to his previous violent, snow-angel-making self. Was his entire journey
all for naught?
Of course, all loose ends would be tied up in the 2018 sequel, Clockwork Orange 2: The
Battle of Scurvy Mountain, which won the Golden Glob for Best Supporting Visual Effects.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.
Vidi well, my brothers. Vidi well.
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Detective Gallo - Smuggler Trophy Guide - Duration: 3:22.
Smuggler Trophy Guide
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Alien's Guide to THE GODFATHER - Duration: 5:20.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema. I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid. This
week's artifact is The Godfather, directed by Gerald Ford Coppola and starring Marlon
Wayans and Alf Pacino.
The film is responsible for centuries of people putting cotton balls in their cheeks as a
hilarious and original party trick. Our eponymous protagonist is Vito Corleone,
who has a party for his daughter where people bother him in his office and he doesn't
spend any time with his daughter. In lieu of thank-you notes, he sends out personalized
horse heads. The Corleones' rival family, the Tattaglias,
want Vito's help getting in the drug trade so they can finally be cool. Vito sends someone
to spy on them, and they send him some fish, which makes everyone mad because they're
more of a steak family. The Tattaglias also try to kill Vito, which makes him absolutely
livid, so his oldest son Sonny takes over. Sonny has Tattaglia's son killed, even though
he himself is a son and should know not to violate the Son Code. Then his brother Michael
kills some other guys with a toilet gun. At this point it's open warfare, so Michael
hightails it to Sicily, the safest place on Earth. Shortly thereafter, Sonny is killed
at a toll booth for not having exact change, and Michael's Italian wife is killed by
Michael's italian car. That's what happens when you don't change your oil every six months.
Vito says enough is enough, so he promises the Five Families he'll stop being
so straight-edge and won't try to avenge his son's death, scout's honor. Michael
comes home and marries a new girl, then takes over the family business, promising to turn
it legitimate in five years or their money back.
In a bid to be taken seriously, Michael's son Anthony murders Vito with a watering can.
Not to be outdone, Michael has all the other dons assassinated, kills his brother-in-law,
and becomes the Godfather Part II. The Godfather is characterized by the dichotomy
between family and "the family," a.k.a the mob, a.k.a the mobbly-wobbly. In the most
famous scene, shots of Connie's son being baptized are juxtaposed with shots of Michael's
crew killing the other head honchos. Michael is baptized as "The Godfather" at the
same time he becomes a literal godfather to his nephew, one of cinema's great coincidences.
Despite sharing the same human word, family and "the family" are galaxies apart, kinda
like Facebook and The Facebook. Throughout the film, doors -- which look like transdimensional
portals but don't do anything -- are used as a motif suggesting the division between
these worlds. When he visits his father in the hospital, Michael's face is partially
obscured by a door, indicating his dual nature as he transitions from a family man to a man
of the family business. During the wedding, Sonny has human intercourse with a woman against
a door, while on the other side, Tom Hagen tells him to stop procrastinating and get
back to doing mob stuff.
In the final shots of the movie, the door is shut on Kay after Michael lies
to her about Carlo's death. Michael is fully entrenched in the Mafia, and his wife can
no longer trust him. The film is permeated with a feeling of nostalgia,
an affliction suffered by human brains in an attempt to cover up the futility of human
existence. The characters yearn for an older, simpler time -- a time of family values.
"Times have changed. It's not like the old days."
Vito Corleone refuses to do business in narcotics, despite admitting that it's the future of
the mafia, as well as politics, sports, and entertainment. This refusal to adapt is what
leads to the attempt on his life. Later, when Vito dies in his garden, we see his grandson
run through the frame like he don't give a fuck. Vito's old- school morality has
expired to make way for a younger, more nihilistic, way of life.
The morality of the film is also evident through light and color. Most of the interiors of
Vito's office are shot in very stark darkness, as are his eyes, which are the windows to
his face. Connie's apartment is very brightly lit, since she's not too busy going out
on "hits" or whatever to buy some home furnishings. Whereas all the Italians wear
muted colors, Kay is always wearing bright, flowery colors, suggesting that she is an
outsider and also a Maxxinista. But in the final scene, Kay wears a muted beige jacket,
as now the family business has become inescapable. Speaking of colors and things that sound like
colors: oranges.
Every time we see oranges, someone is about to die. Vito buys oranges right before the
assassination attempt, Sonny drives by a sign promoting Florida orange juice right before
he is killed, Vito dies eating an orange. Scholars have long debated the significance
of the "Orange Curse," but the prevailing wisdom is that it's an inside joke about
scurvy.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid. Goodnight, and good luck.
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Detective Gallo - Cameo Trophy Guide - Duration: 0:57.
Cameo Trophy Guide
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Alien's Guide to THE PRESTIGE - Duration: 5:30.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema.
I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid This week's artifact is The Prestige, starring Huey Lewis
and the Newsie, and directed by neither of them.
The film tells the story of Angier and Borden, two Earth shamans who become rivals over a
simple misunderstanding about whether Angier's wife should be alive or not.
They take turns injuring each other's frail mortal bodies and snooping in each other's
diaries for hot smut.
When Angier finds out Borden has a new incantation called The Trans Man, he becomes obsessed
with finding out how it all works, without, you know, sticking his foot in his mouth.
He tries using a double he conveniently finds wandering around ten feet outside the building,
but the double soon finds he has more of a passion for trapeze.
So Angier kidnaps Fallon, Borden's assistant who never speaks and whose face we never see
clearly, somehow without ever looking at his face or talking to him.
Borden relents and gives him a clue: the Tesla Model 3.
So Angier drives his affordable yet stylish electric car across the ocean to America to
find Nicholas Tesla and bully him into building a transmogrification machine.
Angier successfully uses the machine and becomes the biggest hippo on campus, and that makes
Borden a very sad hippo. A very sad hippo indeed.
Michael Caine is in this movie, in case that wasn't clear.
Borden sneaks backstage to investigate, only to find Angier stupidly drowning in a water
tank like some sort of non-amphibious mammal.
Borden is arrested and found guilty by reason of proximity.
Borden is murdered by the Earth government, and only after he's fully choked out does
Sir Michael find out the Pepsi Twist: Angier is still alive and kicking!
With one of his feet at least.
It seems Angier has been suiciding himself at the end of every performance, leaving behind
a fresh-baked clone to live until the next one. Then, just as Angier is patting himself
on the back, Borden shows up and performs his greatest trick: shooting him with a gun.
Buy one Pepsi Twist, get the second for half price!
Borden is actually two twin brothers who would trade off being Borden and Fallon, depending
on who was having a better hair day.
Angier bleeds out all his remaining blood, and Borden meets up with that double-crossing
legend of stage and screen to retrieve his daughter, who is also part of this.
In The Prestige, shamanism is a metaphor for storytelling, which is a euphemism for talkies.
At the start of the film, Cutter explains the structure of a magic trick.
This progression also reflects the three act structure that comprises the bulk of Hollywood
features -- even Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Act One is the pledge.
In the world of film, this translates to the introduction of characters and conflict, generally
something to do with not having a date to dog prom.
Act Two is the turn,
which gets its name because Act One...
turns...
into Act Two.
Act Two introduces complications, in this case the advent of Borden's Trans Man trick,
which ignites Angiers' descent into non-binary open-mindedness.
The turn culminates when Angiers activates the machine, and the audience is left wondering
when Batman is going to show up.
Act Three is the prestige, which, coincidentally, is also the name of the film.
This is when the story gathers the narrative threads and ties them into a neat little Bowflex,
climaxing in a grand flourish.
Significantly, this structure is explained by a man named "Cutter," a term that references
an editor's role in piecing a film together.
Too bad our editors are pieces of -
unwavering professionalism -
who knows how to do his job.
Just as a shaman distracts us with techniques like needlessly vulgar imagery or a needlessly
attractive assistant, the film diverts the audience from the twist even while dangling
it right in front of our state-of-the-art ocular implants.
The child guesses immediately that the birdcage trick used a twin.
Cutter even comes right out and states it.
But the audience is so dazzled by showmanship and the advent of electricity that we are
still gobsmacked when Borden finally explains.
All of which goes to prove Cutter's theory -- whether watching a magic trick or a movie
or a donkey show, the audience wants to be fooled, swept away by the narrative, so that
we may be wowed at the end.
Because no one goes to a donkey show for the previews.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.
Presto disappearo!
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Turning 65? Your 2018 Guide to MEDICARE: Critical Medicare Decisions. - Duration: 17:44.
This program is for people turning 65 who are ready to enroll in Medicare.
Here is Part II of your 2018 Guide to MEDICARE – EXPLAINED SIMPLY!
There are several Critical Medicare Decisions you need to make before enrollment.
This presentation will help you to address these decisions.
My name is Gregory Lazarev, and I am the President of Liberty Medicare.
Liberty Medicare is a licensed independent insurance agency specializing in various Medicare
plans for people above age 65 or on disability.
For many years we are helping people in many US states compare, select and enroll in the
BEST Medicare plans.
You'll find in this video not only the traditional Medicare information but also plenty of important
details and tips rarely available elsewhere.
Closed Captions are available, please use it at your convenience.
Take a look at this picture - it shows the complex nature of Medicare.
As you may imagine, it is NOT EASY to deal with it!
In this presentation, we'll describe the steps to help you make the most important
Medicare decisions.
This framework provides an excellent starting point if you are turning 65 and are new to
Medicare.
Let's get started!
Here are your decision-making steps Step 1: Do you need Medicare Part B?
This is the critical step; it has a substantial impact on your subsequent decisions.
Step 2: Which Medicare plan meets your needs?
You may select Original Medicare and add to it a Prescription Drug Plan and (optionally)
a Medicare Supplement Plan.
Alternatively, you may select a Medicare Advantage Plan which typically includes a Prescription
Drug Plan.
Step 3: Do you want or need Medicare prescription drug coverage?
Step 4: Do you want or need a Medicare Supplement (Medigap) policy?
Let's review each of these steps.
Your first and probably most important Medicare choice will be whether or not you need Medicare
Part B coverage.
If you elect to keep Part B coverage, you will be entitled to all Medicare Part B services.
Medicare Part B is not mandatory.
In deciding whether to keep Part B, the following factors should be considered:
• Can you justify paying the Part B premium ($134 in 2018)?
• Are you or your spouse currently working?
Are you now covered by an employer or union group health plan based on your current employment
status?
If you are currently working and covered by an employer health plan, you may want to consider
delaying Part B enrollment.
You will NOT be penalized for a delay under these special circumstances.
• Will you be ready to enroll in a Medicare Supplement (Medigap) within 6-months of enrolling
in Medicare Part B?
This consideration is very essential because of the Medigap Open Enrollment – time when
you may enroll in a Medigap plan without Medical Underwriting.
If there is no particular reason why you should delay enrollment, you should keep Part B.
Delaying enrollment until the next General Enrollment Period will result in a penalty
for as long as you have Part B. The penalty is quite severe: 10% for each
12-month period in which you were entitled to Part B coverage, but did not enroll).
If you have made the decision to keep Medicare Part B, you now need to decide what Medicare
plan type is the best for you.
In other words, you need to compare Original Medicare with Medicare Advantage.
This is a crucial Medicare choice – like the decision whether to keep Part B; a wrong
decision may be difficult to reverse.
To help you decide between Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage, consider their advantages
and disadvantages.
Benefits of Original Medicare Primary
• Freedom to choose any doctor or hospital that accepts Medicare.
There are no network constraints imposed by the provider (typical in an HMO plan) or by
location.
• You are not required to obtain a referral.
Secondary • It is not a subject to annual contracts
that may be changed or discontinued.
• It may be complemented with a Medicare Part D plan.
• It may be complemented with a Medicare Supplement Plan (Medigap Plan) to protect
against catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses incurred while on Parts A and B of Original
Medicare.
• Buying a Medigap policy limits your out-of-pocket expenses.
• It works with other insurances (such as your work insurance) and assistance programs.
Disadvantages of Original Medicare Disadvantages of Original Medicare
• Out-of-pocket expenses (deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance) can be very high.
For example, the Part A deductible is $1,340 per benefit period.
• It does not provide additional benefits, such as dental, vision and hearing services.
To avoid these disadvantages, here is the suggested SOLUTION:
• To enroll either in Medicare Advantage (Part C) or in a Medicare Supplement Plan
• Both of them are sold by private insurance vendors; to be eligible to enroll, you must
have both Part A and Part B
Benefits of Medicare Advantage • Medicare Advantage Plans must cover all
of the services that Original Medicare covers.
The plan can choose not to cover the costs of services that aren't medically necessary
under Medicare.
• Medicare Advantage provides comprehensive services for a premium that may be lower in
comparison with the combination of Medicare Supplement and Prescription Drug plans.
$0 premium plans may be available in your area.
• Beneficiaries with pre-existing conditions will not be denied enrollment or charged increased
premiums.
There are no health questions asked, and acceptance into Medicare Advantage is guaranteed (except
for the beneficiaries with ESRD).
• Plans may include extra services not covered by Original Medicare, such as dental, vision
and hearing coverage, fitness center membership, etc.
• Most of the plans include Prescription Drug Coverage (known as Part D) in addition
to Hospital and Medical benefits.
Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage • You are always responsible for copayments
and coinsurances, and sometimes even for deductibles.
Therefore, the cost could be quite high.
There is an out-of-pocket limit of $6,700/year.
• Your choice of doctors/hospitals is limited by the provider network within a specific
geographic area.
Members are required to pay an increased cost, sometimes up to the full cost, for services
outside the provider network.
• Medicare providers may not always accept Medicare Advantage plans so your choices may
be limited.
Some doctors and hospitals do not participate in any Medicare Advantage plans, and others
participate only in a selected few.
• Many plans require referrals for specialists and other services.
• Medicare Advantage plans may change every year.
Such changes may affect your premium, deductibles, copayments/coinsurances, and the scope of
extra services.
Recommend Tips for Choosing Medicare Plans Consider enrolling in a Medicare Advantage
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Remember that as you increase your use of the services (which typically happens the
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policy.
In the case of serious illness, without Medigap stop-loss protection, you may incur very high
medical bills.
This diagram illustrates our selection dilemma: Original Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage.
You may select either Original Medicare (Part A and B) or Medicare Advantage Plan with or
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The choice of Original Medicare allows you to add stand-alone drug coverage, as well
as a Medicare Supplement plan filling gaps in Original Medicare.
DO you need to enroll in Medicare Part D?
• Always enroll in Medicare Part D (Medicare Prescription Drug Plan or PDP) unless you
have other Creditable Prescription Drug Coverage.
• If you do not enroll in Medicare Part D when you are first eligible and go without
a creditable prescription drug coverage for 63 or more continuous days, you may have to
pay the penalty if you decide to join later.
The penalty is 1% of the average PDP monthly premium for every month of delay.
Two ways to enroll in Medicare Part D:
• If you are enrolled in Original Medicare, then you may enroll in the stand-alone Medicare
Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) • If you are enrolled in Medicare Advantage,
be sure that prescription drug coverage is a part of the Medicare Advantage Plan (MAPD)
Should you enroll in a Medigap Policy?
• The prime purpose of Medicare Supplement Insurance (also known as Medigap plans) is
to fill the gaps in Parts A and B of Original Medicare.
Medicare Supplement Plans provide protection against potential future (catastrophic) losses
for Original Medicare out-of-pocket expenses such as:
• Deductibles (Part A and Part B)
• Copayments/ coinsurances (Part B: 20%) • Excess charges
Medicare Supplement benefits are paid for by Medicare Supplement insurance after Medicare
has paid its share of the bill.
• Medicare Supplement Plans are plans sold by private insurance companies who are licensed
in your state.
• There is no network in the Medicare Supplement.
As in Original Medicare, you may visit any doctor or hospital as long as your doctor
accepts Medicare.
Original Medicare is your PRIMARY coverage.
The doctor must accept a Medicare Medigap plan.
This is your SECONDARY coverage.
• All Medicare Supplement plans are guaranteed renewable even if you have health problems.
In other words, the insurance company cannot cancel your policy as long as you pay the
premium.
• Medicare Supplement provides some extra benefits that are not a part of Original Medicare,
such as foreign travel emergency.
Several companies provide additional benefits, such as pharmacy savings, vision discount,
access to fitness facilities (such as Silver Sneakers), nurse health line, etc.
• Medicare Supplement plans DO NOT include prescription drug coverage – you must buy
that separately.
The best time to enroll in a Medicare Supplement Plan is during the Open Enrollment Period.
This is the six-month period after you've applied for Medicare Part B. During this time,
the insurance company cannot deny you any insurance policy it sells, cannot delay your
coverage, and cannot raise their rates based on your medical history.
If you apply for a Medigap policy after the Open Enrollment Period, insurance companies
in most States may use medical underwriting.
Medical Underwriting will determine whether to accept your application, raise your rate,
and/or impose a pre-existing condition waiting period.
You should enroll in a Medigap policy (Medicare Supplement plan) because it gives you peace
of mind from the financial exposure of Original Medicare out-of-pocket costs.
They can be significant!.
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such as employer group health insurance.
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Alien's Guide to THERE WILL BE BLOOD - Duration: 6:47.
Greetings and welcome to Earthling Cinema, I am your host Garyx Wormuloid. This week's artifact is There Will be Blood
directed by 19th century showman P T barnum who famously coined the phrase
there's a lollipop born every minute I still have a lot to learn about Earth's
agriculture. There will be blood tells the story of Daniel Plainview a human
male who enjoys burrowing into the ground like a worm a disgusting
earthworm. His worm buddy dies so Daniel re-appropriates his offspring and
Christens him HW
short for human worker fittingly he uses this worker to start a business
out of nowhere some dork tells Daniel about a
place where he can get a metric buttload of oil which is perfect because that's
one of Daniel's favorite things to worm around for. Daniel crawls his way over
there and buys up all the land
angering Eli another identical dork. Soon Daniels oil business explodes knocking
everyone's socks off and stuffing them in their ears. Daniels half and half
brother Henry shows up so Daniel does the responsible thing and succumbs to
nepotism HW gets jealous and tries to fire Henry so Daniel ships his son off
to obedience school like a dog a disgusting earthdog
freed of that dead weight he quickly strikes up a
lucrative ass deal with Union Oil and gets to work on a pipeline. Unfortunately
Daniel discovers an inaccuracy on Henry's resume so he has no choice but to clean
house. He goes to Eli's church and they both scream the same thing I do every
day when I drop the kids off at school.
Only his version doesn't quite
capture the same unbridled exuberance. Later HW grows up and wants his own
business but daniel has a few choice words for a him. Now without a
partner for the big bowling tournament. He is forced to go stag. Eli shows up for
a few frames and Daniel responds by beating him fair and square
or more accurately fair and oblong. As the title might suggest the primary motif in there
will be blood is bees no wait wait... blood. Oil serves as a metaphor for the blood of
Christ which was the juice in Christ's veins that gave him laser vision. In this
shot sunlight forms a halo around Daniel making him look almost holy. One of
Daniel's workers put oil on infant HW's forehead thus baptizing him in the
eyes of the american government similarly Daniel baptizes Eli in a
puddle of oil because that's what jocks do. The nerds get their revenge when Eli
makes Daniel big for a baptism of his very own. He acquiesces but is he being bathed in
the grace of God or is he just psyched he can finally finish laying that pipe.
Fellas...you know the drill.
blood is also important in the way Daniel emphasizes blood relations with
all CAPS he uses it to find common ground with Henry.
When that common ground is revealed to be fraudulent Daniel loses interest
in Henry faster than you can say peachtree dance unless you can say
peachtree dance incredibly fast peachtree dance for me it takes about 30
seconds. The only time Daniel shows legitimate emotion in the film is while
reading his true brothers journal and that's partially because the pages are
made of chopped onions so strong is Daniel's adherence to blood ties that he
doesn't even exhibit love for his adopted son, human worker.
Daniel is pure American ambition he'll exploit anything for a profit including
locally sourced child labor.
When HW is injured Daniel leaves him with his
friend so he can check on the old black nectar. he later tells his son he was
nothing more than a sweet face to buy land not even bothering to compliment
him on his figure. even after Daniel is shamed for abandoning
his boy the lingering wide shot of the reconciliation may suggest it's more
about appearances than anything else. Eli the pastor serves as Daniels
counterpoint in the film and although it may seem altruistic by comparison a
closer look reveals that they are both a couple of Decepticons Eli claims to be a
vessel for the Holy Spirit but it turns out he's just as egotistical as
Daniel.
When Daniel finally gives Eli the scrilla
he owes him. Eli uses it to leave town and pampers brand instead of putting it
into his church then when his ship runs dry
Eli tries to blaspheme for cash. If that worked I'd be a god
damned Chamillionaire and indeed the parallel confessions force these
hemoglobin homies to come to terms with who they are
ego masquerading as a prophet and ruthless businessman masquerading as a
family guy but daniel is more than just a bird's nutsack thanks to blind
ambition he becomes a monster removed from humanity.
As such there will be blood can be viewed as a horror film in the
vein of the shining or Beverly Hills Chihuahua the dissident score gives the
film an ominous atmospheric tone that eerily contrasts with the sunny
landscape of Southern California plus there are those sickening references to
food consumption. In fact Daniel may very well be the devil
himself when Eli is preaching he siphons the devil out of the old woman's
hands and throws it outside the church like a bag of old ham as he nears the
exit the camera takes on the role of the devil following him out the door like a
bag of Oldham as soon as Eli says the camera cuts to a close up of Daniel in
the church as if to say he's not really gone and he never will be at least not
until the credits roll. For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid. Hey everyone, thanks for watching
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Alien's Guide to INTERSTELLAR - Duration: 6:29.
Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema. I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid. This week's
artifact is Interstellar, produced by SyncopyFilms co-founder Emma Thomas and directed by her
baby daddy.The film takes place on Earth during the 21st century, right after Hurricane Sandy.
Matthew McConaissance plays Cooper, a family human who lives in a haunted house. But when
the ghost gives him a set of coordinates, he discovers a secret NASA station run by
his old butler, Alfred. I mean Dr. Brand. Brand wastes no time bragging about a cool wormhole
he found. They already sent some peeps through and found a couple replacement planets for
the one they just finished ruining. Now all they need to do is take some embryos there
in order to spread the disease that is the human race. And who better to do it than Coop,
a man who five minutes earlier they didn't give two shits about. Must have been the plan
all along, right guys? Who cares, because this humble farmer is the best goddamn astronaut
anyone has ever seen.
"You're the best pilot we ever had."
Coop heads off to space with Brand's daughter Amelia, a robot named
TARS, and a bunch of other people who don't matter because they all die. They go to an
ocean planet near a black hole where time is not on their side, unlike that song
where time is on someone's side.
"Every hour we spend on that planet will be seven years back on Earth."
And for some reason the dude up in the shuttle isn't
even that mad, considering he had to just sit there for 23 years contemplating this sick burn.
"That's the wormhole!"
"Say it, don't spray it, Rom."
Oh ho sh*t, you see that!?
"Say it, don't spray it, Rom."
That stings. Antiseptic ointment, that's gonna sting tomorrow.
Next they go to an ice planet, where they find Matt Damon, an actor known for exclusively
playing astronauts. Only he turns out to be a bad guy astronaut, which is not very Sexiest
Man Alive 2007 of him. Matt Damon tries to kill everyone and steal their ship, but the
good guys stop him by being the best goddamn astronauts anyone has ever seen. Just then,
they start to get sucked into the black hole, so Coop panics and jumps overboard. The black
hole turns out to be some kind of intergalactic bookstore. Coop looks behind the bookshelves
and sees Murphy's bedroom through the years, though thankfully not when she's jerking
it or anything. Coop realizes he was that pesky ghost all along, and uses morse code
to give her the data she needs to solve the big space equation, which he somehow figured
out I guess. Coop is found drifting near Saturn fifty years later and brought to an orbital
colony where his elderly daughter is about to die. That's the thing about daughters:
they keep getting older, you stay the same age. After talking to her for less than a
minute, he leaves again to go see if Amelia wants to spaceship and chill.
Interstellar explores humanity's relationship with its own extinction, though too little too late if you ask me.
There there, don't cry. It's over now. Shh shh shh. Dr. Brand desperately
wants to save his species, but fears that humans are too egocentric to help preserve
mankind's future unless they can also save themselves or their loved ones.
"I've got kids, professor."
"Get out there and save them."
He repeatedly quotes Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a poem
that urges perseverance against death, even when the fight seems hopeless.
Ironically, he quotes the poem so much that it makes you want to kill yourself.
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Do not go gentle."
"Go.... gentle."
Dr. Mann serves as a perfect exemplification of Brand's fear, and his name subtly reminds us that he is
representative of all Earthlings. Mann talks a big game about sacrifice, but when it comes
down to it, he don't got the stones. Like Brand, Mann is well versed in the poetry of survival,
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
but unlike Brand, he's just talking about his OWN survival. When humans are truly
tested, their selfishness always comes through in the clutch.
"Don't judge me Cooper, you were never tested like I was. Few men have been."
At the beginning of the film,
it seems Cooper is equally shortsighted. The only reason he accepts Brand's mission is
because he wants to save his daughter, and also his son a tiny bit. But at the end when
he realizes his dadbod is weighing down the ship, Coop sacrifices himself so Earth could
continue its love affair with Anne Hathaway. Does Coop disprove Brand's theory about
human nature? Or does he represent something more than human, like a werewolf?
At various points of the film, Coop represents a different aspect of the Holy Trinity, from
the book "Bible," by Jesus. Like Jesus, Coop sacrifices himself to save the human
race, and is subsequently resurrected by a passing spaceship. While browsing at Barnes
& Nova , he becomes God the Father - an omnipotent entity who transcends time and space like
it's his job. And he turns out to be Murphy's "ghost," so, you know, Holy Spirit. If
that's not enough Bible shit for you, the twelve astronauts who explore the wormhole
on the first mission can be likened to the twelve apostles of Jesus, missionaries charged
with spreading the word of Christ. The space station that rescues Earth's refugees parallels
Noah's Ark, in that no more than two of any race is allowed on board.In keeping with
its religious themes, Interstellar is decidedly critical of scientific thought. Throughout much of the film,
decisions made in the name of rational thought tend to end disastrously. For example, Amelia's
attempt to recover scientific data on the ocean planet costs the crew 23 years and results
in the death of an expendable redshirt. Similarly, after careful deliberation of the facts, the
crew chooses to visit Mann's planet, which turns out to be a real oopsie. The crew ignores
Amelia's insistence that they visit Edmund's planet because they distrust her lovesick puppy eyes.
The film posits that the most powerful force in the universe is love.
"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space."
It's like the Beatles
sang, "All you need... is a yellow submarine." Coop's connection with his daughter is what
enables him to find her in the non-fiction section. And Murph's love for her father
is the reason she keeps the watch he uses to communicate with her. Then again, if it's
between love and a photon destabilizer, I'm choosing the destabilizer every time.
For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx WormHOLEuloid.
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