hot take Megaman to was amazing and I don't care what anyone says I think this game is great okay I'm only kidding Megaman 2 is one of the most celebrated games of all time a permanent fixture on top NES games lists one of gaming's most legendary soundtracks and arguably the single greatest entry in the entire series however for all the praise it rightfully gets it's amazing final moments don't get enough love yeah I'm about to show you how Megaman 2 is even better than people give a credit for because you know the music you know the level design you know the bosses but Megaman twos subversive and emotional closing minutes are not only brilliant on their own terms but also a benchmark moment for video games they're gonna break it all down for you in this video but first this video is sponsored by Squarespace you can start your free Squarespace trial today by going to squarespace.com slash stop skeletons and using the offer code stop skeletons to get 10% off your first purchase stick around to the end of the video to see the website that we made along with the world's hottest hotdogs gamer onto the show [Music] quick history lesson before we begin Megaman 2 was famously a labor of love for these skeleton crew that made it Megaman 1 is one of Capcom's first nes games that wasn't in arcade port however was not the hit they had expected there was no interest in a sequel but the development team so passionately believed in this series if they pledged to work on it after hours so long as they didn't fall behind on other projects like pro baseball murder mystery Mega Man 2 was essentially made pro bono and according to Keiji Inafune it was completed in only three to four months was released in late 1988 in Japan in midnight 89 in America the happy ending is a force that Megaman 2 became a huge hit which is an interesting contrast to the game's melancholy ending that we will be discussing later our analysis begins at the end of the fifth level in dr. Wily's castle at this point you have beaten eight robot masters fought through for dr. wily levels and beaten all eight robot masters again and are now finally squaring off with the doc himself he appears in a flying spaceship very similar to the one used in Mega Man 1 and it even has two forms there is every reason to expect this game to be ending right here and it could have and it still would have been great I mean that's home Mega Man 1 ended and it was fine it's fine that games got problems but it's fine kids leave it alone but upon defeating wily this time he escapes in his UFO jet in the floor collapses beneath Megaman this this right here is the moment where Mega Man 2 starts to break with traditional wisdom of how to end a videogame we come back to the overworld screen where it is revealed that there is another level a sixth secret level now that alone isn't too impressive except the level itself throws everything out the window it starts with Megaman in freefall and by the time you land four screens down you realize there is no music well think about how legendary the soundtrack is it's one banger after another and now suddenly complete silence and then the acid droplets there are no enemies in this section only the droplets meaning if you get hit there's no way to farm for help and megaman 2 has other environmental hazards spikes lava blaze but these all kill you instantly these droplets are a huge shift similar only to these spike traps seen briefly in metal man's stage and Wiley Castle - but while the spike traps will kill you in four hits these acid drops will take you out in only three making them one of the deadliest obstacles in the game there's absolutely nothing familiar in this area which is not only unsettling on its own it also goes against the entire wily castle which is basically a recycle - greatest hits mishmash of enemies and obstacles seen previously the cherry on top is the way the audio is mixed yes there is no music however the sound of the acid drops are given priority on the sound channels drowning out the sound of Mega Man jumping and shooting it's very subtle in fact there's little reason to jump and shoot in this area so this is easy to miss and also depending on the version this isn't even true the audio quality in the anniversary collection is pretty poor overall still it takes something away that you as a player could always count on and one final layer of disorientation this is the shortest level in the game by a wide margin outside of the boss rush room in the previous level seeing that boss door so soon is an oddly freaky moment but it's all an opening act for the next surprise dr. wily is an alien by the way this seems like it comes out of nowhere but the Japanese subtitle is secret of dr. wily so I guess that explains it the fight starts immediately with alien wily hurly shots at you and flying around the movement of the stars makes the room almost feel like it's on a conveyor belt and it's easy to miss Wiley's first shot as it blends into the stars behind you of course you are on a solid floor and not hurling through space but even now it still takes a few seconds for me to get my bearings at the start of this fight and of course the only weapon that hurts wily is bubble it feels like the developers are trolling here because it's maybe the most useless weapon in the game outside a flash man's weapon bubble is the only weapon that doesn't shoot out a head like a normal attack it's good for heat man finding false floors and wildly for and that's about it and I'm not sure if this is well known but not only do none of the other weapons work everything else actually heals so you gotta get in close to land hits but that's treacherous because while his shots are super strong touching Wiley is almost instant death the game is basically rewriting everything it taught you up to this point and it's a tough intense fight because of it after beating widely we find out that he's not actually an alien I was really young when I first beat this game and I had no idea what was actually going on here until I was way older had any rates Wiley is finally defeated and we get the classic animation of him begging for his life accompanied by a Rory as fanfare we did it but it's not over yet all the previous violations of expectations stack for the final moment Mega Man's long walk home it's a simple sequence as a sparsely composed downtempo melancholy melody plays we see Megaman under a spotlight walking in front of a picturesque village as the seasons change around him when daylight finally breaks he stops and looks up the picture expands to fill the frame and we see that Megaman is gone but he has left his helmet behind the song concludes on a sustained unresolved final note fading out it was only a minute long and it chokes me up every time this sequence is unexpected and different both from Mega Man 1 which let's be honest most first-time players of Megaman 2 had not played at the time end of games at large there's an interesting discussion to be had with how this ending differs from others in this series but I don't want to have a discussion right now and we don't need to have that discussion it's important to remember that when the team was making this game they didn't know if they'd ever make another one and they didn't know what Megaman would become there is a lot to unpack in this moment and why it's so meaningful and unusual first off this is not a thanks for playing message like you'd expect at the end of most games of this era we'll get that later during the credits but this is not the credits this is a cinematic it is meant to be viewed as part of the game and as part of the story and it's not celebratory at all yo mega man is not happy here even though he has every reason to be happy good has triumphed over evil the day has been saved yet we have multiple indications that everything is not okay for starters Mega Man is alone maybe he wanted to be alone with his thoughts or maybe there really is no celebration because being a hero can be a thankless job either way it's not all that important this ending is not the real world it's a metaphorical depiction of mega man's internal thoughts and feelings for example the ending cycles through five seasons two of which by the way are cherry blossom and monsoon don't forget this is a Japanese game I don't think he literally takes a full calendar year to walk home if the dev team wanted to be literal he could have ended on a gag of Oh No Megaman where have you been Wiley's back which would have left the game on a cliffhanger and could have served as a strategy to get six-year-olds like me begging for a Mega Man 3 however there's no commercial angle to this it instead symbolizes how long and deep his contemplation was but what is he contemplating to me there's significance to the helmet it's interesting how it bookends the beginning and ending of Mega Man's journey the first time we see Megaman the wind is blowing in his hair which symbolizes freedom but Megaman doesn't put the helmet on at the beginning of the game it warps onto him to me this ending is a statement of Mega Man's struggle with life outside of battle and the helmet is the centerpiece he leaves the helmet behind in order to leave the battle behind however this is a fleeting act taking off the helmet is pretending that he has a choice because fundamentally Megaman does it when it's time for battle again the helmet will warp back on to his head he can never really take it off so taking off the helmet is him exercising the most freedom he has and maybe he knows that hence the sad unresolved melody that finishes the song this final gut punch in Megaman 2 is what all the sub versions of the ending sequences had been building up to Megaman is a reluctant hero he has defeated wily not because he wants to but because he has to this ending creates a schism between Megaman as a character and you as a player you might have had a great time playing and beating this game but Megaman didn't Megaman is sad you are not Megaman this ending is fantastic on its own terms the this separation is what makes it an extraordinary moment in video game history Mega Man 2 was released in Japan in late 1988 by then the home console market was still in its infancy in establishing itself as a unique space next to the arcade market arcade games had different goals than console games console games are a big upfront investment and therefore come with the expectation of a longer and more intimate product overall whereas arcades are designed to grab your attention and keep it long enough to squeeze a few quarters out of you and this is not to say there aren't exceptions to this a big one is Namco's splatterhouse also released in 1988 but overall there wasn't an emphasis on story in arcades because there didn't need to be capcom zone willow is an example of these differences the ending of the NES version Mega Man's own key tomorrow by the way is a slideshow of memorable locales highlighting the long journey the player took through the game solidifying it as an experience you shared with the game while the arcade ending is all about how dope this young hunky val kilmer looks console games had less Hardware power at their disposal book the potential for a more intimate personal experience made up for it by the time Mega Man 2 was released consoles have been experimenting with subverting audiences but none had pushed the boundaries as far on both gameplay and emotional levels Double Dragon on the NES deviated from the arcade version by revealing that Billy's twin brother Jimmy orchestrated Marian's kidnapping Zelda to links adventure ends on a pretty tense note where link fights himself in the original Metal Gear big bosses not only revealed to be the evil mastermind but even tells snake to turn off the MSX ghosts and goblins made you play the whole game over again but that was just mean screw it and maybe the biggest subversion was Metroid completely recontextualizing itself with the reveal that Samus was a woman if you were good enough this is probably the closest to Megaman two's ending in terms of rewriting the players relationship to the central character but this is more of a reward for beating the game fast instead of an emotional payoff we don't see how any of these revelations affect the characters and this is how Megaman 2 is different of course subsequent male gear of Zelda and Metroid games would humanize their characters eventually but not until the next decade Mega Man 2 stands nearly on its own for the time by the way my interpretation with the helmet and other things is just that my interpretation there's not a quote official interpretation for the sending as far as we can tell and that's kind of beautiful series creator Akira Kimura has discussed in mega man's character broadly as a lonely and reluctant hero and interviews but he's not talked about this ending it may also be a reflection of the team's own emotions they put it all on the line and they had no reason to believe a third game would ever be made ultimately what kita Mora or any of the other creators intended doesn't really matter it's about the people who played and experienced it and how it made them feel the Zen thing has always meant a lot to me and I think having first experienced it at such a young age it primed me early on for what the medium of videogames can't accomplish so regardless of what this ending means to you it's meaningful that it made us stop and think deeper about the characters we play in video games this video is sponsored in part by Squarespace with our 24/7 365 days support they've created a platform that's flexible for any kind of website for musician the designer to hotdog gamers who just want to talk about their favorite videogame dogs we made this website for our dog because sports faces that we could and stop skeletons in fighting has a lot of opinions 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[Music] the path and my feet leads me into a poker hands I can sense my search is coming to an end for 300 years the elders have searched for the crystal power but only the devoted hands of mankind can bring it back into my life the time is now - we know where it is we know what what do you do - shut up or get out as we say in Norway Martina here and today we're gonna create a proper home for this absolutely beautiful crystal cluster so this is kind of what I'm thinking we're gonna have the crystal up here and there's gonna be a path leading up to it so the whole look of it it's gonna be super overgrown and most importantly there's gonna be smoked there's gonna be lights I think the only difference I'm gonna make from the sketch is to make the box that we're gonna put the whole diorama in into a rectangle I don't want to make an entire mess down here with dust and everything so I'm gonna go out to the garage and cut the shapes I need for the box out there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right let's go [Music] hold up everyone we have an emergency because there is nice weather what's this there's no rain there's no snow so really have to grab this opportunity to go find some resources from the great outdoors what we have to find is some gravel maybe some tiny travel like tiny pebbles and stuff and some branches in different sizes and shapes I think we have to go to our neighbors again and still do grab I'm sorry I just grab like a little handful of these things no nope too dry these are kind of nice looking I'm just gonna grab a couple of these good in my bag so bright I got a ton of kind of tiny branches and stuff I can't see anything so I think I'm just gonna go back inside right below okay thanks okay so we got a base box now it's just time to start filling this thing with all the layers that I'm gonna need so I have my styro-slicer' here it's just a hot wire to slice it up I usually just go to the local hardware store where they sell like building supplies and stuff and this particular styrofoam is actually meant to insulate floors it's pretty cheap and it's really nice and dense but without further ado let's get some styrofoam you might be wondering why there's a huge gaping hole here well I need some space for the electronics and the smoke machine that we're going to build later so I'm kind of just leaving this space for that and also this side here is going to be the backside of the model so I'm planning to kind of make some sort of accessible door that I can enter to get to the electronics we got three more layers to cut and then we can start shaping this landscape [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh man no and it's everywhere why do you have to stick to everything [Music] good morning everyone how are you doing now it's nice and clean and it's a new day and I'm ready to go again what we're gonna begin with today is to try to kind of blend all of this together by using plaster some rougher foam coats and some rocks I never worked with plaster before so I'm kind of excited how that's gonna go [Music] all right okay that was more work than I expected for now I'm just gonna put it to the side because it has to dry for I'm guessing at least 24 hours maybe more in the meantime we're gonna start working on a smoke machine interesting okay so what we're doing now is we're gonna try to build a smoke machine and I have never built a smoke machine before but I've watched some videos on YouTube and I think I know what to do but don't believe that I know what I'm doing if that makes sense first of all we got our vaporizer I believe this tube is made of acrylic it really doesn't sound or feel like glass which means that I can hopefully drill a hole in it to make the vaporizer work we need an air pump and that is going to be connected to the vaporizer with a little plastic tube like this I kind of want to drill a hole in the vaporizer and connect it to this container with another plastic tube and hopefully I can make it all just tight no liquid nowhere that is not supposed to be but it seems simple enough roll the montage [Music] [Music] so nothing's been leaking or anything so that parts all good but now it's the moment of truth where we see if this a slightly messy circuit will actually work ah please work okay I got my 12 volt power supply here now when I hold this button the pump and the vaporizer should start working and the smoke should come out of this tip kinda nervous okay oh my god oh this is gonna look amazing holy crap no this pump is kind of loud we're gonna replace it with something else once we get it in the mail it's just gonna be a little bit a bit noisy for a while I'm so excited holy Frick before we continue I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate all our patrons and YouTube members because as you probably understand these projects take well a lot of time to make and usually the materials can be quite expensive so I really just wanted to thank our patrons and our YouTube members because you guys make it possible for us to make these kind of videos and get the materials we need and all that so I just wanted to say I really appreciate every single one of you thank you so much for your support [Music] see you guys might be wondering what the heck this is this crystal is gonna go right here like in the middle of this stone structure thing the cardboard piece you see there is going to be acrylic that has been sanded or frosted and that acrylic piece is going to be lit up with some LEDs what I think is pretty cool about this is that if you see the gaps on the sides here that's where the smoke is going to sort of creep out over the landscape so let me just show you real quick how that's going to look ah I just think it looks so cool oh my god and just oh okay oh it's gonna look so good okay let's go [Music] oh say I was just filming a long rant about how everything sucks right now and then my camera dies on me because obviously ah so the thing is I've been walking around this basement for like an hour trying to figure out where to go from here and I'm just a slightly overwhelmed and the problem is I know the steps like what to do but it's just kind of boring and time-consuming and the threshold I'm just doing it is really high right now we're getting through this [Music] [Music] so I got all these acrylic pieces ready and cut out I just have to find like some way to put them inside the rocks and I think the simplest way to do it and the method I'm going for is just to chop them straight down the middle and then carve out the space where the acrylic is going to be and then kind of glue the two halves back together and try to blend the seams [Music] all of them are now soldered together and they all work so let's look at how it all looks together [Music] I think it looks so cool oh my god I think I just love the cracks and how they glow and just oh it's gonna look so good so I think what I have to do next is to fix the centerpiece thing after this is attached onto here I can begin to go in with the foam coats and kind of blend everything together into the landscape okay let's get on with it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Astrid will you please stop eating the tree while that dries I'm gonna work on making a couple of trees I was thinking like three trees I've shown you guys in detail how to make these trees before so I will just link to that video in the description if you want more details on how to make it so let's just get into making a couple of these trees [Music] [Music] ah oh my fruit I might have overdone the size but I have absolutely no regrets I'm so happy with it oh the way I'm gonna attach this to the landscape is to bend the wires and just Ram it through the surface basically maybe add some glue to the bottom of the of the tree okay let's attach this tree so that this can dry overnight and I can start painting it tomorrow oh my god I can start painting it tomorrow let's attach this tree apply the foam coat and go to bed [Music] [Music] this is the day I've been waiting for I'm so excited hopefully we have time to both paint it and put on the so-called flock or like all the grass and dirt that is going on top of the model and yeah I think I'm too excited to speak oh my god haha too excited I need to calm down my plan is to paint the whole thing like dirt so that if we miss a couple of spots with the grass then it will have some sort of like realistic texture texture texture underneath I nearly forgot to say I'm not gonna explain in detail how to do these exact painting techniques because there are tons of great tutorials on YouTube on that but I suggest checking out stippling dry brushing and washing if you're interested in this because those are like the three I guess quarry techniques that are good to know if you want to make these kind of landscapes but let's stop talking and let's just start painting [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I thought that the painting and putting on all the vegetation and stuff would take one day but it turns out painting itself took a full day okay then he cried please don't eat my tree but even if it took a lot of time I'm happy I spend the time on it because honestly I think it's quite a big upgrade from the previous diagram I did I'm proud let's have a look you shall we okay so here we have some nice different types of dishes so we got some individual dress what are these cold even grass Tufts doesn't course dirt and some fine dirt right grass grass applicator and grass brush I don't know I find it fun it's just brushing tiny grass oh it's kind of weird grass finer dress I bought so much grass that sounds wrong and two shades of underbrush underbrush this pile is only grass I probably have too much of it but better to have too much than too little know all these beauties okay let's go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] took so much time but it was so worth it the only problem is I had nowhere to put it I love it we'll figure something out if you want to follow along on what we do in between the videos we post you can check us out on Instagram where we usually post just updates on the progress of projects or other things we do outside of YouTube and the same goes for Twitter if you wanted to check us out there as well oh and if you're new here remember to subscribe so that I can see you in the next video now roll the final shots [Music] [Music] [Music]


and earlier this year we just sold to appFolio and which is where I am building out the product scaling it and adapting the product to their client base got it mind if I ask how much did you guys sell it for well it's public for people who want to know mind if I do my research and put in my video I guess I guess I can just tell you because you're gonna put it on anyways we sold 460 million before we continue this video I just want to say thank you brilliant for sponsoring this video every day brilliant publishes daily challenges on many stem topics like math science and computer science this site is extremely sleek and they have over 60 interactive courses which makes learning these concepts way easier because of the hands-on approach they also have a artificial neural networks course which is really really well made and I think if you're very interested in ml you should definitely check it out this is a great complement to University because you can do practice questions under well curated sequences of problems which allows you to master the topic you want to master you know I wish I had brilliant when I was in college because I'm more of a hands-on cam guy I learned by practicing and if I had brilliant I think I would have understood these concepts a lot faster so if you're interested you can go on brilliant org slash Joma and then the first 200 people will get 20% off all right that's it all right welcome back thank you thank you thanks for having me back yeah thanks for coming David MA my brother it's cool I think I'm your first interviewer that came back for a second round right am i right I think you are actually yeah interesting because you were high in demand so I had to bring it back cool so just a little context in the the previous video I made an interview with you and it's mostly about how you were a quant at 2 Sigma and then that video you told me that you quit your job to do to co-found a startup is that correct yeah so a lot of people were wondering why did you make the switch the switch there's a lot of small reasons I wanted to try something new wanting to see what was out there for deep learning I wanted to also look at cryptocurrencies I want to look at biotech but in the end Elliott the co-founder of dynasty reached out to me like a week after I said I was gonna quit and he was like hey have you ever thought about quitting and I was like did I quit like one week ago like how do you how did you how did you do this hmm and then didn't he said like yeah just come out to LA and then see what we're doing and then there's nothing no harm done right yeah I got one thing led to the next and you know Here I am now nice nice so between back then when I interviewed you to now any updates on the startup is dynasty right yeah there was a lot of a lot a lot happens since since the last time we spoke I joined dynasty at that time we had just pivoted into the the AI for for real estate business and during that time we built a product found product market fit and earlier this year we just sold to appFolio and which is where I am building out the product scaling it and adapting the product to their client base got it - I asked how much did you guys sell it for well it's public for people who want to know mine if I do my research and put on my video I guess I guess I can just tell you because you're gonna put it out anyways we sell for 60 million mm-hm yeah nice how many co-founders really yes so dynasty was initially a different business which did not succeed and that's very that's very common for a lot of startups so yeah at the end of the last business everything was we were like 10 people and I joined that as like the sixth person and at that time things we're not going well there was no product market fit and we started pivoting into the real estate and about half the people best oh so in terms of co-founder originally there were two co-founders and then this new will for the new pivot five of us were left just a tldr what was the previous product and what is the product now just to make it more tear back then we wanted to create I want to securitize real estate assets basically create a in exchange and then allowing people with a smaller amount of capital to take and take positions in real estate assets if you think about it right now you buy a house you have to have you know especially in Silicon Valley you have to have like 200k 300k just to put it put down a deposit it's not very democratic right and also your all your money is into it just one single assets that's very susceptible to to local changes so we want to just change that it didn't really work out we at least we didn't find how to make it work I'm not gonna say it's a bad idea because we still think that you know there are benefits to this world we're dreaming of but in the process Eliot's and other people who joined before me found out that a lot of real estate participants had a lot of trouble managing their assets so it's unlike stocks real estate as an asset that you have to you know it's a real thing you have to keep yeah there's up cave you want to like get people into for rentals and stuff like that I think half of the the income comes from rectals right if you take it the other half has appreciation so one of the big challenges was the operations of leasing a building or leasing your assets so we decided well everybody says it's a problem so let's do something about it yeah and that that's where Lisa lisa is the second iteration of dynasty so that's like the pivot that's your new business that's right yeah and of course Lisa is an AI for leasing mmm-hmm I was wondering now that you've you know dig your hands deep into ml are there any misconceptions about ml engineering that you want to debunk I think the the general excitement about ml is great it made a lot of people go into ml a that and that's awesome but like a lot of focus has been on how do I build models and how do I fit a fitter model to the data but like very little focus has been on how do i generate data how do I design a business process that will create data for the algorithm that I want to build how do I handle the outputs how do I build all the process around DML components yeah there's too much focus on building the models not in the focus on how to integrate ml into existing products and to be fair it's kind of a new field right not many people how to know how to do this because it's it's it's so new like an analogy is when you know computers were were first invented her like the internet was first invented people were finding out how to integrate that into existing business processes and you know it took a lot of trial and error but that's the same thing like not everything is just building models right yeah not everything becomes more useful if there's machine learning in it yeah right maybe not everything should use blockchain technology exactly right that's what that's the example I want to use like I always wondered a lot of people want to do machine learning now my viewers especially because I think it's because I'm in the intersection of data science and software engineering but I don't I don't really understand the appeal of machine learning at the job because in my mind what you do is like you said you make sure you have good data make sure you solve a problem with your ml so most of the time in my head build data pipelines to funnel it into your model you pick a model you play with the you tune the parameters and then try to optimize for that AUC and then that's it like is or is there more to it I don't know that is fun I I think like you're you're kind of right I mean especially if you're building products you know you don't have the time to do the fun stuff in ml research the way I see it software engineering is the the core skill and then there's like ml engineering that that gives you a bit more domain knowledge into how to build an old products or ml models but in the end once you once you've done that like a v1 of it that's it you have to you have to build all of the systems around it and that's not what the school is on what you really learn at school mm-hm so imagine the fun stuff that machine learning researchers do what is that what is the fun stuff what would be fun for me I think in terms of research would be you know investigating the latest algorithms and like understanding why they work why they don't trying different data sets on these new algorithms a lot of the things that you've seen out there like Gans like generative adversarial networks you make like funky images style transfers like these are all investigations and why do convolutional networks work as they do and that's research right and that's not it's not primarily those things were not built primarily for business good and of course lisa is an AI for leasing the pun one of the problems that people had was like when you put your your your apartment for on Zillow or something like that you get a ton of inbound you have a you have emails you have text messages you have phone calls like it's the it's very fragmented the things that you get and you have to take all of that in Bound coordinate showings take care of applications and I do all that move-in process so Lisa what we decided to do was to automate the the responses to text messages emails phone calls and on the other side we just produced showing so people just had to show up and obvious the leasing agents just had to help to show up and sell sell the property they didn't have to like coordinate and do all that stuff and that was the main the main focus of it I think a lot of people liked how you know their phone stopped ringing after they used they started using anybody said you know okay cool awesome so what about you what did you do in dynasty yeah you worked on Visa I guess yeah of course so originally I was hired for to do some research because you know I was a researcher blah blah blah but you know nothing turns out as we plan it and I decided to take that opportunity to dive into ml I mean I had some ml experiences back in college and a little bit back at my previous job but never deeply so I decided to build out the the ml components got into deep learning learn about NLP which is natural language processing and once that core thing was built you know we were still startup we just had to do other things so I got myself into a software engineering you know before that had never done like real software engineering but under our CTO I was able to learn a lot about you know how to build how to build products and like yes I did software engineering and product design yes basically you have to do everything at a startup mmm-hmm so why why couldn't other people just do the same thing just apply AI to real estate stuff and then would they be a competitor like how why what made dynasty successful mm-hmm we also thought that there was going to be competitors and I think there there are but nobody took the symbol of the exact approach that we did which was Lisa would talk to two prospects prospects being the people who would rent they were protecting them without telling them that they it's a bot or anything because in reality were not fully about either about 40% of our messages are handled by humans who we call operators the fact that we try to give such a natural experience to prospect is something that the clients really liked because in general people don't like to interact with the bottom so our conversations look very natural because there's a lot of humans that kind of that we fall back to when things go wrong actually I have a funny story about people not liking to interact with buzz so one of the one thing that we measured was how often would people reply when we send messages back to them right it's like reply ratio whatever initially we would reply instantaneously because people would message in and were like hey we have a showing at 2:30 you want to come like within seconds and then the I mean people were probably freaked out and replied less than if we were to wait two minutes before replying so although we can reply very quickly sometimes we wait a minute or two before doing so that's interesting so another part that made us successful I think was the fact well I think the biggest the biggest success was the the market validation that was done prior to the pivot but that aside another thing was our willingness to just build what was was needed and like not focus on technology too much and just get something out out there we get it in front of people iterate and build it as simply as possible so that we don't waste too much energy trying to optimize a system that was not going to exist like a week later yeah and also these days AI products are like very I really hot a lot of people spend a lot of time optimizing that small small component which it in retrospect like I could have spent more time on that but if I did that I wouldn't have liked use my time to build out the product in terms of the software engineering part right deciding to say okay that's good enough and work on like the most important part for the business was at where something was I was spirit that like everybody had at Dynasty and I think that really mmm-hmm you know pushed us beyond the edge okay give me a concrete example of that thing you just described like what could have you optimized on like how did your ml system work as a whole what was that part of that ml system that you could have optimized on but what did you work on instead to make your product better in the backend the the first ml component that we we created was an intent classifier so we would take in messages and understand was the intent classify them one of a few intents like do they want showing did they accept something like whatever Oh actually before we continue can I just kind of have a high-level overview of what Lisa does because right now I think it's kind of just like a chatbot for leasing yeah and then is there anything that does like how does it interact with the operators and also the clients right so Lisa is a pretty complicated product in terms of how you would explain it like with components that you understand because there's a lot of interactions one interaction is with the prospect so with through there we it's just a bunch of text or emails the first text comes in we ask them do they want a showing then the conversation can go anywhere they can ask questions about the property they can't like you know decide not to do anything we have to confirm them for the showing like we asked them how how it's going that's one interaction with the agents the leasing agents we schedule things on their calendar we ask them questions that that we don't know the answer of we answer questions that they they have for us and there's like an interaction with bosses well which bosses the bosses a real estate agent boss correct okay sometimes the same person but like often it's not they want reporting so that's a that's the main interaction and then there's our human operators which uses Lisa as like an interface to the outside world they have what we call the command center and it's mostly like a messenger interface but like augmented with a lot of information and also they have a concept called the quick action which they can quickly find a a commonly used action to reply to prospects awesome okay so that means back then real estate agent will have to communicate with the prospects do the showing scheduled your own showing manage your own calendar but now they actually don't even need to talk to the prospects and you just have Lisa that is kind of like a layer in between that's right down oh that's really cool until they get to the showing which I don't you know they want to use their human specialty to do the cell you know well I mean one day you could build robots and just replace that - okay one day way cool okay so now that we have a good overview let's go back to what are the ml parts that are very specific I'm pretty sure there's ml in the quick reply there's probably ml in trying to classify what messages are so what weren't the other stuff that you could that you worked on that was better for the business and then just optimizing that okay once we got the the intent classifiers we could have you know tried better models like bird or Elmo like the stuff that came out in 2008 it was really hot we could have tried using that to you know gain a few percentage points of accuracy or those models like NLP Manos that's right okay yeah we used something like pretty simple like a Tec CNN for our core models and it worked it worked fine but like you know sure could we have done better we're still trying someone we have time but like there are more important parts to work on in Canada mm-hmm like the what like the question Tiger was born out of necessity and like they were they were answering the questions over and over again so like finding other places to to the package by the ML solution is more impactful than trying to optimize the existing components got it yeah mm-hmm so what do you think most startups hmm make as mistakes using ml like what are the common mistakes startups make using ml because I'm guessing you're comparing your dynasty to other startups how'd they do what would they do wrong my guess would be focusing too much on the latest technology that's out there especially the academic literature and trying to apply that to their business it takes time to pour academic literature to mature for business and a lot of a lot of literature is sometimes not reproducible mmm and it's a common problem so like investing too much there will waste a lot of time and as a start-up you don't have a lot of time got it yeah I heard a lot of people saying that in theory the paper sounds great and it works with their data set but applying it is a whole different story yeah applying you have to so finding a way to apply ml to a business environment is difficult because you have to specifically know which problem like this isn't in itself is like many many problems and you have to carve out one specific problem for ML it has to be worth it or at the time of research you have to be able to find a process that will generate data for that problem and once your algorithm is working you have false positives you have false negatives you have to have a process to handle that and then not even including monitoring like making sure that your models are are always performing as well as you think they are in our business with Lisa it's generally pretty it's not too bad because like English generally doesn't change but you know maybe if you're working on ads or like trading your environment will change and your algorithm performance might decay and you have you have to like know about that know so there's a lot of stuff that happens around that there's no small ml component so from what I understand it seems like it's better to build out your system understanding what you have to do how to do everything and then identify what are your spots that need ml and then solve for that rather than some other companies with identify maybe even an mo problem and then build out a solution like everything else which ultimately may be that solution wasn't even that useful for the market anyways right okay awesome so oh yeah I think I think another pitfall would be trying to solve too much with ml all right like there was a you know there's a few companies out there that wanted to build personal assistants and it turns out the job of personal assistant is like extremely difficult and there's like infinite variations right even in our business of leasing we found that it's a very subtle hmm taking the the very simple example of what's the rent you know you think that's a simple answer it's a simple question at first but then you have to say you think okay well actually what are they talking about the one-bedroom a two-bedroom are they talking about moving now are moving later are they talking about one one one-year lease or two-year lease oh wait are you talking about the like about all our properties or like only the ones that are available yeah there's a lot of tricky C's intricacies in in a simple question just as like what is the rent yeah and I also know it's quite difficult because I'm trying to hire a real personal assistant and that is still very hard so I'm guessing you know because if you can't even solve my problems with a real human I don't even know how to start solving with them like machine learning model because usually I think if something is easy to solve manually like a replica lots of repetition then you can kind of replace it with AI but yeah yes that's actually one of the guidelines that we have if we want to carve out something for the 4ml first solve it with humans see how I could work see how it works if it's really repetitive and like people make don't make a lot of mistakes right some heuristics not even ml and run run with it for a while handle your handle your false-positives handle your false negatives and if the system is humming then you know try to increase the accuracy with with ml mm but without these intermediate steps like don't even think about it mm-hmm all right so Dynasty are you guys are you guys hiring you know yes yeah we're definitely hiring right now you know we need a lot of good engineers the the way we we want to hire is hiring people who have a decent software engineering experience because we don't currently have a lot of time to to bring people up to speed because we're still a start-up even though we required and we want general software engineering skills we think that that will translate well into the ml parts or if you focus on you know more systems reliability or like more product but like the core software engineering skill is what we're looking for okay what kind of technologies would they be working with if they want to be an applied machine learning engineer we we use like typical stuff like tensor flow you know the Python packages and stuff like that our stack on the backend is Java again our pragmatism we don't we don't try to use too many fancy latest technologies we just use what is tried and proven so really that's kind of our core philosophies mm-hmm right so what would make a good machine learning engineer a good hire for you what kind of skills are not just skills but attributes personal attributes yeah willing to dig into the details understanding the business not like focusing too much on on the ml part being good at software engineering in general I dynasty we're not like ml engineers are not are not like oh I'm the ml guy and you can you guys can do like the back end like you have to do you have to do this on for engineering you don't get like an assistant for that mmm yeah so what's next for you and dynasty ended next five years mm-hmm yeah five years is a long time I mean just a year and a half ago it was a different business yeah now - yeah two years ago thanks it was a different thing definitely for me I want to see Lisa built out to its full potential hopefully you know the viewers will well someday rent an apartment I'd be talking to Lisa and after that who knows I think I'll be at appFolio for the foreseeable future yeah well maybe I'll be building other ml products hopefully finding other ways to apply ml into the real world mm-hmm awesome cool yeah thank you so much and I just want to say best of luck to Lisa dynasty and appFolio if they do want to apply to dynasty do they have to do it through appFolio website or is there a separate dynasty website we are fully under at full wear now okay so you should apply to a folio exactly so and then if you want to prepare for appFolio don't forget to check out Tech and be pearls all right I got taking intro if you're interested in getting ready for interviews oh yeah I also want to plug my Twitter em a David J M a David J a ghost's cool all right thank you so much for being here really appreciate it Thank You private all


why hello my name is Sara Dee she rhymes with peachy if you're new around here I just received a lot of boxes to complete my very minimal on the cheap side cinema setup so for a little perspective I'm talking about I'm not spending the usual ten thousand fifteen thousand dollars on the fanciest cameras out there but I'm very run-and-gun so I want the best image possible and the smallest package possible so that's what we're gonna unbox and do but before that thank you privacy comm for sponsoring this video privacy comm keeps your money safe when shopping online by using virtual cards and saving you time and money because it hides your card details and they're so kind they're giving you just five dollars out of the kindness of their heart if you go to privacy comm slash Sarah deechi okay let's get into this unboxing you know I don't know why I've just started using the Sony imaging up but it's very handy to see what you are shooting welcome to 2019 sir okay today's video we got a classic unboxing for you it's all about this stuff camera gear but not just any camera gear recently I got to thinking maybe it was just I was watching too many youtube videos about cameras shout-out to you gear heads out there and you know I felt as if I needed something more when your friends start getting red cameras see five thousands are real like so is right is one of those things where could my image be a little bit better half of me says Sarah you're a youtuber yes you can tell some compelling stories here and there but you don't want to sacrifice story for having a big rig so when I looked at all the options for more of cinema lines with cameras I looked at and see 200 and the FS 5 as main contenders I almost said I will buy back all of my EF glass that I really regret selling or maybe I go the FS 5 and use some of my nice glass now these cameras are they're so close yet so far once I start looking at cameras that are around the $5,000 range I start getting super picky in terms of what I want you know I know there's not a perfect camera of course you have to protect the line of cinema cameras that are above the $5,000 price point but I just couldn't commit I wanted two built-in XLR inputs I wanted good Kodak's I wanted the ability to still be a run-and-gun but just to have that very very clean image and honestly I just kept going back to the price that price it's still so steep for me I've been a part of projects that are pretty high budget where I'm not involved behind the camera but I'm just used as the talent hello how are you when you go for the top of the top quality the best quality that you can possibly have usually that's in controlled environments that's what scripted content that's when you're making movies that's when you go for the best image possible because you have controlled lighting you have a script to work off of you have actors that know what they're doing for the stuff that I do maybe more documentary driven stuff or stuff with just me where the focus is on other things maybe a product or just telling a good story I have to come to terms with myself Sara having the best image possible shouldn't be priority and honestly it's kind of impossible because I am a one-woman show so with that I am building the cheapest cinema setup I can possibly go for and that's what this video is about I amassed most of the packages that I need for this right now I've waited too long I just want to rip it open and so this is gonna be my new setup I'm obviously gonna shoot a lot of videos still with a 7-3 because it is so easy I love Team Sony but you know I recently purchased the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 6k and with that I'm borrowing John's lenses which are the 24 to 70 s for a 70 to 200 F for both of those have is and then this really really quirky one which is a crazy fish eye it's a 8 to 15 okay so what is that second camera gonna be you gotta have a cam B or maybe this is the candy and I go really fancy and buy like you can and see 200 or something or nope I'm not gonna spend money not today are you guys ready for the second camera that's going to complete the cheap cinema setup it's just another black magic it's the black magic pocket black magic pocket Cinema Camera 4k I'm going old to Sarah I'm doing it I'm doing it all right there we go we got the power plug this in for continuous power we have an LP e6 battery and then the main event the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 4k Wow I forgot how much smaller this actually is it's the same body chassis but it doesn't have that big nose for the for the EF mount screen so why why did I go with this option well I think that's a known thing 4k has some issues with the battery hatch I have no regrets so why this guy well it's about having the cheapest and quickest cinema setup okay and for this guy well I already have Micro Four Thirds glass from the gh 5 so I've been enjoying the Jewish 5s and I can use the 1260 F 2.8 which I love that lens I also have a 15 1.7 so we ready got some good small glass for this keep this super compact if I need it to do some handheld stuff and I'm not scared to travel with this they're so small you can rig them up to be a beast of a setup and I won't be nervous about you know bringing them to places or traveling with them it's like because they're so small small I'll bring them places alright so it's time to accessorize alright y'all this actually has nothing to do with my cinema setup these are just yeah the normal Sony seven five zero six monitor headphones I needed a second pair and now I'm good okay Zeiss Lynne wipes because you know what John's lenses are dirty because he doesn't keep caps on them ah small rig tool check this out I got this on the recommendation from David from unlocker it is a handle for the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera you attached to a small rig cage oh but turn it over and it's a slot for a Samsung SSD that you record your black magic or ProRes directly to the USB see is it gonna be a full set oh here we go and here our said lens caps to replace not having them poor lenses they've just been they've been naked this entire time this is the final box but I'm not sure it's the final rig cheap I mean you know cheaper compared to Kali ah perfect okay so we have another Samsung SSD this will be strictly for my Blackmagic rigs and then here's the actual page the small ribcage here is the cage it's pretty light this allows you to match all the things on a Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 4k you can use this for either black magics and again all of this stuff will be linked to the scripture blows my affiliate links bnh and Amazon so let's get one of these guys rigged up let's start with the six cakes is gonna be my main guy and that's what you need to screw it on actually goes really handy just in the bottom of the cage like that kind of snaps entick Wow cool so this allows you to start mounting on stuff so it has a cold shoe I can mount my road right here and then you can only go so far with the s T and C fast recording I mean you can go pretty far with ProRes but say I'm recording black magic brah you're gonna need that extra speed via USB C so let's set this up with this handle we have you samsung t5 one terabyte of storage okay the only thing that makes me worried is I've had these Samsung SSDs have a loose connection before so hopefully this isn't the case when you're recording data like this cable is the only thing that makes me nervous okay so that was pretty simple so it's connected on the side like that not so heavy it's just it's getting heavier guys this is what happens and I can already tell like just having one super rigged up like this is probably the only one that needs to be like this I'm gonna try to be as minimal as possible to micro four-thirds 4k setup I'm debating whether I should do an SSD t5 setup with this or maybe just SD cards and C fast but if I want to be serious at all with doing black magic brah I'll probably have to do that maybe with this setup I can just hang up top I don't want to have to rig this up completely but I'm glad I have this I don't think this is kind of like overkill I think but it's good it's good for this setup boom let's test this audio coming proud I feel like it looks like crap out here in real life it looks like crap don't underestimate it that is crazy was that a it's it's a t5 Drive so putting straight to a hard drive that's ridiculous yeah but it allows you to record Blackmagic Raw which is like a crazy Kodak now we have two points of contact so we can get super steady I could be like hey John what's up I mean it is heavier yeah it looks really heavy so this wouldn't this would just be one version of the setup for sure I should go to sleep also I hope you enjoyed the late night unboxing with era peach now let's continue our programming with a few more because we're not done yet my wallets kind of hurting but we're not done yet wait and all the unboxing I forgot to show you guys my new pillow that's just like a big piece of bread which I love I love bread this is the joy for me okay now it's me I love red okay everyone what do you think about me going fully black magic of course I'm gonna be using my Sony a7 three for a lot of YouTube stuff cuz it's just easy it's convenient but I'm very excited on a couple projects I have coming up to use the new gear I did purchase a few other things so we're not done with the grand total yet but before I get into that Thank You privacy calm privacy calm / Sarah DG for sponsoring this video Sam online shopping for new cameras which I was and say that camera retailer later gets hacked they get all the credit card numbers but hey if I'm using privacy calm my credit card details aren't just laying around for someone to use you can add spend limits to specific cards to protect against unwanted fees or honestly to just manage all of the subscriptions you have for me maybe adding an iTunes limit wouldn't be a bad idea so unlimited - how many new movies I rent I personally enjoy it because it's like a good visual representation of all of my subscriptions that I have going on so I could cancel at any time they also have a browser extension for auto-filling purchases well how much does this cost one might ask it doesn't cost anything it's literally free so you go to privacy comm slash Sarah dg2 sign up today and get five dollars there literally need five dollars towards your first purchase basically it's free money so sign up today and let's get back into the video some additional purchases after using these cameras is a ton of batteries so these are the off-brand Canon batteries just from Amazon but they work just as good on these Blackmagic cameras I can't more than 40 minutes out of it so whenever I'm doing along interviews basically just plugging it straight into the wall with the power adapter okay this thing this is the small rig you know you put the t5 and it's a solid handle so this is just too much for me if I ever have a bigger project and maybe someone is using an easy rig and they need a little bit more weight a little bit more control I'll keep this so that person or maybe me can use it however I need the more like condensed version of this so I went and bought two small rig things where you can just clamp the samsung t5 and secure and attach it to the cage now the full cage is a little much I want to have it just in case I want to attach all the things to it but in order for me to use the t5 with both of these cameras and I don't end up like this I needed an additional cage for the second camera and actually what with the half cage because the full one is just a little much I don't think I need to attach that many things to both of them so the half cage is cheaper it's less weight and I can attach this to the camera okay so the grand total is so I don't think that is too much damage I mean honestly I don't buy cameras like willy-nilly so of course it is a blow to the bank account but I'm very excited to use these on some projects and it's a better option than going with like two ff7 s or FS fives or Canon c200 I've heard so many great things about c200 I just wasn't willing to spend that much money and I needed a to camera setup so I'll let you know my thoughts and the future so let's look at maybe just like one project I've done so far so this is some interview footage I was filming I think in Blackmagic raw maybe yeah so let me know if you want a 4k verse 6k video I definitely want to put some more time into it before I say my thoughts on that using them in the first week I definitely want a solid EF lens that is below f/4 thank you John for lending me all of your lenses the 2470 has been a good go-to but I definitely want something in the f1 point for F 2.8 range maybe looking at a 35 millimeter or so let me know if you have any ideas comment below and then also when I'm using the 4k so it's a micro four-thirds lens mount I definitely want to use my 15 mil 1.7 more just again to get some of that more depth of field you've got to do a little bit more work on the Lind side because this is a super 35 millimeter and a 4/3 sensor so you know the smaller the sensor the heart it's to get that really shallow depth of field that we're used to with these full-frame cameras like I'm shooting with now on the a7 3 who is the background all gooey maybe I don't think I'm at like f5 right now I definitely thought I was gonna finish up this video by buying a gimbal because the world tells you that you need a gimbal to be cinematic right but after a lot of thought my my go-to with camera gear is like if it's gonna get in the way and maybe I might miss a shot and it's not super scrappy that I'm not gonna make that purchase and that's kind of where Gamble's have been up but now with the Ronin s a lot of you guys have suggested good gimbals it's not as much of a pain in the butt anymore but I think I'm still gonna hold out because I used my DJI Osmo go again and I was like dang you know what for these special shots I don't know how it's gonna like look with black magic footage but if I have to have a gimbal shot maybe I can just like try that that's easy to put in my bag um but I you know I'm very running gun just holding the camera using this strap and getting steady footage and using warp stabilizer and post that's been my bang for a while and I think I'll keep rockin it and I'll let you know though if a gimbal again is on the radar for the future because I'm checking things out so maybe a couple new lenses maybe a gimbal but what do you guys think of the current setup because I think I'm good to go I'm excited to shoot stuff at this point I'm just rambling but I can literally talk about camera gear and all gear in general for hours upon hours yes I understand it's a problem but that's why I have y'all as friends that's why we can just be dorks and gear out together ok thank you for watching this video make sure to check out my link privacy 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hey everybody it's your friend in your guy in your favorite comedy channel Gardner the Linux gamer this video is brought to you as always by my gracious patreon contributors including the support of Matt dancer Matt your support is truly humbling I'm coming at you with some Linux gaming content imagine that today we're going to be talking about this really cool project that I found on github actually the developer sent me the link so this is kind of his fault I'm just very excited about this because this has cleared up a small pain point that I have had about pea proton bebe and if you don't know what proton DB is let me give you a little bit of history so valve have been hard at work I know right it's weird so valve have been hard at work at this thing called proton and proton is basically valves own gaming focused fork of wine but mine lets you run Windows applications on Linux proton is specifically designed for playing Linux get our Windows games on Linux it's really cool so valve have been have integrated this technology that they're working on into the Steam client and it's really cool so it's a derivative of wine and it's optimized for gaming and it lets users have access to their entire Steam library now the problem with that is that proton isn't perfect right very few technologies are basically you can't expect all of your games to perform exactly the way you would expect you know exactly the way they do on Windows so what happened was valve tried to address this by creating a whitelist they've maintained a whitelist of games that work as expected on Linux through proton however it's been a little while since valve updated the whitelist and in typical valve style they've kind of gone hands-off and left the heavy lifting of that responsibility to the community and we dutifully have taken up the slack so proton DB comes in proton DB is this awesome frickin website there's a link down below and it provides something like 46,000 proton compatibility reports for over 8,000 games that are on Steam that is an impressive number proton DB was created by this guy named DB before or D a beedi beedi for buck is his first name and it's an awesome tool anyone can create a report and it gives you basically the ability to to rank it on a scale from platinum to to bronze or garbage maybe and and and let's see it gives you room for notes for the distro you're using and for the GPU type there are thousands of games that have received a platinum rating on proton DB and many more that have received a gold rank so proton DB calm you can check it out or you can check out bucks github for more information github comm /d before or bead 2 for I'm really bad at my B's and my DS and the other day gaming on Linux comm had this really awesome post about but kind of highlighting some of the stats and if you haven't checked it out it's a really good read so one of my favorite things about Liam's reporting is that it shows rage - was one of the games that was most tested for compatibility with proton last month and and rightfully so because it was released last month but what's really cool about that is that Valve actually released a new version of proton to specifically address some of the issues that rage - faced with proton and that's really cool it's the it's impeccable timing on Valve's part which is something I'm not used to seeing I don't know if any of you guys are used to seeing that but I've got suffice it to say proton DB is an excellent resource right but don't you wish you could just marry the two you know just kind of kind of like take one and then take the other like this is your Steam library and this is there's a proton DB and you just go and merge them together don't you wish you could do that now you can so github user a current computer he goes by the name Nick he's he's a really cool guy he created this tool called called proton deep to Steam library it's a Python tool it basically uses the the proton db-api to add tags to your Steam library games and what it does is it basically takes your your Steam library and it looks at proton DB and then it applies a tag to the games in your library and they get sorted by those tags and it's really cool so games that are rated platinum on proton DB are now under the Platinum category in your Steam library that's frickin sweet so I actually get to sit down with Nick and we actually get to talk about his project and it was a very interesting conversation just a couple experts here just like kind of the highlights but if you're a patron you can actually listen to the whole thing at patreon.com slash the Linux gamer where you go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself my name is Nick I'm from Texas I guess I've been developing stuff for probably about seven years now I started when I was in high school and the first thing I actually worked on was a small open source game called space station 13 the only things I'm really maintaining now are probably this and then a disk or debauch Oh a discord bot that's fun so how long have you been a Linux user so the first time I ever used Linux I used I think min I'm gonna say mint 14 and so that was quite a while ago but recently like in the last three or four months I made the full switch to Linux since now all my devices are on it and so definitely been a changer when it comes to like my gaming PC and so that was one of the that was one of the reasons which made me want to make this little program here their script if you want to go of that also yeah I was gonna ask what was your inspiration for actually creating this script so well I knew it was possible to import stuff into your Steam library as tags because one of the roms on Windows there's another program called depressurize err them and it did that and but you could do like by steam store tags like genre or whatever the rating for the game was stuff like that and I pretty much just have gotten tired of switching back and forth between proton DB and the Steam client and so I was like well what if I had these ratings in the Steam client but I have way too many games to just do it manually in any sane amount of time and so I just kind of looked for like a script er like or an API I should say so that I could script it to just pull all those for me so are there any limitations to your script as it stands right now yes so with the way Steam is it doesn't always cache your entire library of games in there but there's like a way to work around that and so if the if your app ID or like Steam game ID isn't in that file the script won't find it and so a way to get around that is if you just like select your entire library and then just add a tag to like your entire library and then exit steam so that it saves that file you can then run the script and it'll have all of your games pulled up there if you run into any issues please open a issue on github and I would love to be able to get that fixed up for you and if you have any feedback also please let me know very open new ideas very open to anything like that so please just let me know I'll get up it's a github.com slash crook computer slash proton DP to Steam library and there'll be a link for that down in the description thank you so much for talking to me Nick it's been a pleasure thank you so doesn't Nick seem like just a genuine dude oh man III really enjoyed talking to him and like I said if you want to hear the full interview with Nick you can check out my patreon page my patrons get exclusive access to the to the interview that I did with Nick the full interview it's awesome he's a cool dude I'm really happy that this tool exists if you want help on how to use it I'll have a little write-up over on the forums formed at heavy element do but I think that's gonna do it for now thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this video if you did hit that like button it really helps the channel out if you believe in the work that I do you can support this show with 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voice is available on both Google Play and iTunes so click the link in the description to get your free download now thanks again to news voice for sponsoring this episode on December 24th 2019 mister 25 discovered what he believed to be a hazardous chemical spill on the roadway outside of the Abilene water treatment plant in Abilene Texas after personally speaking with mr. 25 he informed me that he worked at the Abilene water treatment plant for five years and was fired after voicing his concerns about the conduct of the supervisors at the plans mr. 25 said that the supervisors were manipulating certain chemical test results and incorrectly measuring the chemicals that they were introducing into the city's water supply after being fired from the treatment facility mr. 25 began documenting the facility's misconduct which resulted in him being trespassed from the property he then made several attempts to reach out to local media organizations as well as the Abilene City Council but was shut down and ignored after discovering the chemical spill on December 24th mr. 25 reported the spill to the city and the Abilene Police Department as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality mr. 25 went back to the location of the spill the following day and noted that the chemical was still in the roadway he checked back again the following day and it appeared as though the spill had recently been cleaned after taking a few pictures of the location mr. 25 began walking back to his vehicle when he was confronted by officer Schaefer of the Abilene Police Department it should be noted that mr. 25 has had a previous encounter with officer Schaefer and you can find a video of that interaction on his YouTube channel yes for what what crime what crime in my vida tape or to either use them over there or put you in cuffs and we're to go over there what crime am I being detained for okay all right hold on can I set this down please please can I set this down be gentle thank you can you tell me what I'm being detained for everything honey besides everything with you I don't answer questions you answer questions is there a reason I'm being detained yes because you were involved well what did i disturb I haven't talked to anyone so a reason you're searching me I'm not searching you I'm picking your weapons off of you for our sake yeah you know you had to go into my pocket for that right he was right there I saw it in plain sight the infamous Terry versus Ohio case established the foundational doctrine for when and how an officer can carry out a search on a suspect among many other aspects of policing while the Terry case did establish that a careful exploration of the outer surfaces of a person's clothing in an attempt to find weapons is a search under the language of the Fourth Amendment it also established that where an officer is warranted in believing that his safety or that of others is endangered the officer may make a reasonable search for weapons of a suspect regardless of whether the officer has probable cause to arrest that individual or the absolute certainty that the individual is armed this type of search must be limited to the exterior clothing of a suspect and must be confined to a search for weapons and is commonly referred to as a terry frisk if an officer detects an item that the officer reasonably believes is a weapon then he may enter the suspects pocket to retrieve the item given 25's knife was within plain sight officer Schafer is within his authority to remove the knife temporarily in an effort to secure the safety of himself and the other officers on the scene you won keep on getting smart we can get smart that's I just want to know why I'm worried before I just I told you I told you already I still don't know what disturbance I have not talked to anyone you've been over there causing issues no I'm taking pictures I have not been on that property okay not been on that property okay I've been on the public easement the sidewalk the entire time all right I'm gonna do a pat-down I've used on a search a pat-down for other weapons veget your camera right there I've got two pens and uh something else that is for my pump that's a phone because there was a chemical spill that I found on the 23rd and I reported it on the 23rd and I came earth sorry the 24th and I came back on the 25th nothing had been done about it and so I came back now to see if something else has been done about that chemical spill so which it looks like they have just recently cleaned it instead of at 9 o'clock or more like 8 o'clock this morning when it was reported to the city no why is that your concern because it's the general public can access that so why why is the city not protecting the general public from a caustic material whose concern is that is that everyone's concern so I was like you're just being a just a little employee no trying to get a rise out of people no that's all it is no there was Hannibal I have a brew there was a chemical on that ground you've already been through this before proof there was chemical on that ground ok all right I've notified the EPA so I have to call TCEQ but guess what they're closed today for some reason do you know why I'm being contained yet I still don't know if I haven't talked to anyone I was on public property and it didn't speak to anyone so how did I become a disturbing case oh I can be detained for no crime what am I being detained for somebody called in a disturbance can you so I'm detained until it's proven I thought I was innocent and so proven although it is true that all suspects are innocent until proven guilty a lawful detention does not constitute a notion of guilt the officers allegedly received a call that mr. 25 was causing a disturbance and based on the testimony of that caller the officers have acquired reasonable suspicion to stop mr. 25 and initiate an investigatory detention an investigatory detention is a temporary seizure of a suspect for the purpose of fulfilling three basic objectives to establish whether there is probable cause to arrest the suspect to determine whether further investigation is necessary and to ascertain whether the officers suspicions were unfounded during a detention officers may only do things that are necessary to investigate the matter at hand and ensure their own personal safety and the safety of the public at large a detention becomes a de facto arrest if its scope or intrusiveness were beyond that which is associated with investigative detentions and unnecessary under the circumstances a detention does not become a de-facto arrest merely because it could have been completed faster or less intrusively however officers must carry out their duties diligently and reasonably while there are no set parameters for how long an officer may detain a suspect courts often examine the totality of circumstances surrounding a detention to determine its legality officer Schaefer is well within his authority to stop and detain mr. 25 while the officers carry out an investigation into the complaint they received and mr. 25 s detention does not mean that he is guilty of anything hey what's your name and I still don't know why I'm being detained still I don't understand why okay a couple things one I'm going to reaffirm with you you're coming trespassed from this location okay yeah so I I'm talking I'm talking be quiet on September 1st 2017 the Texas Legislature enacted the Sandra bland Act in an effort to combat racial disparities among the ranks of Texas officers as well as overhaul the means by which Texas collects and stores data associated with police encounters the Act mandated higher degrees of de-escalation training for officer candidates and required officers to obtain an intermediate or advanced proficiency certificate in de-escalation techniques the Act also requires at least eight hours of mental health training to be included in the basic jailer course and to be completed by existing jailers by August 31st 2021 officer Schafer's attitude and body language has been provocative dismissive and unprofessional throughout the majority of this interaction and is counter to the fundamental tenants of the de-escalation techniques that are required by the state I have made a video that explains de-escalation in more detail which I will link in the info card above I saw you walking up over here okay no it ain't that hard for me to just assume that you were there but unfortunately we have no video evidence of that at this time okay do you have video evidence that you want to show me and we'll show you have stayed on the sidewalk the entire time that's exactly what this cameras for - okay that one's on my peep for a reason so if we had evidence you'd be going to jail for criminal trespass I know I'm very well aware okay - when an officer comes up to you his lights along telling you to stop or to come over here for a certain reason you are detained okay that means you will do what they tell you to until they release you from that detention all right otherwise it's resisting evading whatever it is if you do not comply with what that officer says okay even though I sighs have been committed where there was a disturbance and we had to investigate okay okay you were the cause of that disturbance so I would really highly suggest that you stop doing the stupid antics that could get you hurt oh I don't want to get hurt oh boy I'm out here during the day you know making sure my water company doesn't kill anyone that has access to hazardous chemicals so you're just doing stupid stuff no I'm holding my government accountable because you want to paycheck no yes that's exactly what it is absolutely not I want to hold my government accountable okay but do I want money out of it no I just want my government to do better for everyone that's what I want I'm not getting paid to do this I'm not gonna damned I I'm doing this to make a better future for everyone that is what I do this one I'm going to do this for money there are people that do this to make a better community for okay so I told you what you eat what you need to know okay for the future he's gonna take cuffs off you and you'll be free to go thank you you're welcome Pamela bachelor Schaffer Club 11 thank you I know we've talked I know this your knife thanks thing I know you don't like me but I'm doing this for the better I don't do this from mr. 25 was released and the officers left the scene without further incidents following the encounter mr. 25 filed an official complaint against officer Schaefer and was assured that officer Schaefer was re-educated on de-escalation techniques mr. 25 has continued his efforts to hold the Abilene water treatment plant accountable for their safety violations and has since filed public records requests for several years of the plants data but is continually met with resistance the city refused to provide the requested data in a digital format and demanded that mr. 25 pay a sum of fifty eight thousand dollars for printed versions of the data mr. 25 told me that he has begun taking steps to sue the city by filing a claim of tort but the city has all but ignored his suit mr. 25 has compiled all the evidence he has gathered into a video that he plans to launch on his channel in the near future so I highly suggest that you all subscribe to his channel for further updates on his story overall officer Schaefer gets a c-minus because although his actions were within the bounds of his authority interacting with citizens in a peaceful and tolerant manner makes up a significant portion of police work and officer Schaefer displayed a complete lack of professionalism throughout this encounter while the state of Texas has made significant strides to improve the quality and accountability of its respective police forces interactions like this one highlight the difficulties of those policies translating to the landscape of policing at the ground level and expose a gap between legislation and the practical application of legislative acts within the context of law enforcement while state and federal legislation is an important aspect of regulating law enforcement it is the duty of individual police officers to maintain a high degree of respectability and dedication to the demands of their industry officer Schaefer failed to treat mr. 25 with the common decency that should be afforded to all citizens and thus failed to carry out essential principles of his duty as a law enforcement officer mr. 25 gets an a because although he appeared somewhat confused about the intricacies of lawful searches and tensions he remained calm throughout the encounter attempted to engage in a civil dialogue with officer Schafer and followed up this encounter with the proper legal action mister 25 s dedication to exposing the misconduct of the Abilene water treatment facility is admirable and the lengths that he has gone to in an effort to ensure accountability should be recognized the citizens of Abilene would do well to take notice of mr. 25 s efforts and demand more transparency from their representatives corruption at the local level is all too prevalent and often difficult to expose local police forces government officials and judges make up a nearly impenetrable industry that is challenging to unmask and mr. 25 s journalistic mission is certainly one that can be appreciated I commend mr. 25 for his dedication to civilian journalism and once again I encourage you all to give your support to his channel and follow up on the work he is doing you can find a link to his channel in the description below let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like us to discuss in the comments below thank you for watching and don't forget to Like and subscribe for more police interaction contents [Music]


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