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Classical Musicians React: Chungha 'Make a Wish' vs 'Bad Boy' - Duration: 16:58.
Elizabeth: He's a bad boy because he can't stick to one key.
James: Uh, uh!
Uh, uh!
Uh!
Excuse me!
Umu: Now you'll be reacting to a 22 year old female solo artist named Chungha.
So, we're actually reacting to a b-side song.
The very first b-side song is called 'Make a Wish', which was released in 2017 on her debut
mini-album, called Hands on Me. To summarize the lyrics, she's singing about a guy who she knows
she's too good for, but then she decides to seduce him
anyways. The song is composed by Dailydose and Anna Timgren.
Fiona: 3, 2, seduce!
Oh! I like this.
Collin: Okay. I know this, yeah. Jarod: It's like spaghetti western salon, with like now
synth.
Kevin: Da, da, da, da, da, tetrachord.
Oh! Nice little major minor 6.
James: It's very sultry.
Elizabeth: Yeah, a little like, chromatic descending thing. James: Yeah Elizabeth: Almost like a Dido's lament idea.
Kevin: It stands out from other songs.
Okay, now really stands out from other songs.
Emiel: For the amount of energy that's being put into this tune, I feel like the vibe should be a little faster.
Henry: I was just gonna say, it feels kinda slow.
Emiel: It just feels like they're trying to push something.
Elizabeth: Ooh, I really like that sort of
upbeat into
downbeat. James: (singing) Elizabeth:Yeah James: Yeah, I like that.
Fiona: She does a lot with like, how she lays down the vocals, like, it's so rhythmic.
Lindsey: Yeah
Fiona: Yeah
Kevin: Oh. Oh, now we're fully in E-flat major. Okay, that's allowed.
Yeah, now we're back in C-minor. Wow. Good sh*t.
James: It is very chromatic, the melody itself
Love the backing, the vocals, too.
Kevin: Sweet harmonies.
Whoa
Why does her voice kind of have a filter?
When it was the major section? Oh, it's grainy. It's like an old movie. Oh, that's a nice little touch.
Both: (singing)
Elizabeth: Yeah! James: Love it, yeah.
Elizabeth: I like that a lot, actually. James: Yeah, me, too. It's a good little motive.
Jarod: It's kind of cool how they have like, a bunch of different lines
happening at the same time, but yet they kind of work together.
Like it's a lot. You could take any one of those, and it could kind of stand on its own a little bit. Collin: Oh, yeah.
Kevin: I love that change to relative major.
That just automatically brings a smile to my face.
Elizabeth: Ooh, yes! James: Ooh!
Let's do that.
deceptive cadence
James: Oh
That's beautiful.
Elizabeth:Take the bass out of the equation for a little bit, that always works.
That's always effective--deceptive cadence remove the bass line. James: Then like a more ballady section.
Elizabeth: Yep.
James: Beautiful! Beautiful major chord. Elizabeth: Oh, we ended in major and we went straight back to minor.
Woo!
Collin: It's actually good! What?!
James: (singing)" Upon a star"...
Interesting. I like that little like major chord that they held down, and it immediately went back to minor. It was almost just like looking
up through the trees, and like just the sun coming through just for a second, and then closing again.
Elizabeth: Yeah James: That's what it reminded me of. Elizabeth: And then you remember that you have stuff to do.
James: Most of them songs we've listened to thus far, the weird kind of like
forays into other key areas usually happen like with the accompaniment chords,
but in that one, it was like the melody was very chromatic, and it was like literally sewn into the melody.
I thought that was really interesting. Elizabeth: It's like a lament bass, but in the, James: Yeah, literally, yeah. Elizabeth: but in the vocal line.
Henry: Can we try something?
Umu: Wassup?
Henry: That we've never done before, actually?
Umu: Wassup?
Henry: I just want to really quickly, I'm gonna just test something out. Okay, Oh what?
Umu: Okay
Emiel: Oh. What?
Henry: Yeah. We're playing it at one and a quarter speed. I want to see if it's better. Emiel: Oh, right, because it was too slow.
Henry: It's like, noticeably better, I feel like.
Come listen to this.
Emiel: You literally solved it.
Henry: I solved the mystery!
It just like, bops a little bit harder.
Henry: I think that really was all it needed, was to be a little bit faster.
Umu: I mean, she's a dancer. Would she be able to dance to this?
Henry: More than likely not.
Emiel: But that was the vibe, though.
Henry: I think it serves the music a lot better, actually.
Emiel: These guys screwed up.
Henry: Yeah
Umu: What she's known for is her dancing, and she like choreographs her own stuff.
Henry: Okay, cool
Umu: So that's probably the reason why it didn't go faster.
Henry: It could be like maybe like five or six clicks slower than that and be a little bit more danceable and
groove just as hard. I just wanted to see what it would sound like if it was a little bit faster. Emiel: Right.
Umu: That was amazing. Henry: Yeah. That was kinda cool.
Jarod: I thought it was cool. I enjoyed that. And I liked that contrasting bridge at the end.
I thought that was really neat, cuz it was like a lot like she's like a legato, line versus the
the kind of like, articulated lyrical passages that she did earlier.
Collin: Question: With K-pop,
is it a trend to just like combine all of these different like genres into one thing?
Umu: Yes, that is... Collin So that's like an artistic pursuit? Umu: Yes
Collin: Interesting. No, that's so interesting. Okay.
Charlotte: I did not enjoy that.
Umu: Because?
Charlotte: I've heard her live. Why are we auto-tuning her? Why are we putting synth sounds?
Why are we putting extra things on top of her already gorgeous voice? I don't understand. Peyton: It was just a lot of like stuff,
you know, that I don't feel like she needed, you know? Like sometimes it adds when they like can't sing,
but that didn't seem the problem.
Kevin: Hi. So, I really like how a lot of the minor sections, there's a little bit of a major twist, like the natural flat 6
thing going on, and in the major, the short major section with the classy piano and the silent comedy vibe,
there is a bit of minor in it.
But once we switch to E-flat major, it becomes just truly, what a bliss, what a bliss, indeed.
Isaac: I really enjoy the way they maneuver between major and minor, because it's like if you're gonna talk about like
deceiving people, or you're trying to seduce someone, you're trying to like Kevin: What?
Isaac: Oh, yeah, we're going here. Harmonic minor, melodic minor, natural minor, all the three types of minor
These ones are like so so peculiar in the way
They like, it just like, deviates from the major keys that you're initially taught as a kid.
So like, I thought it was interesting the way it's just like it just kind of bends. You're never staying in one place.
You're like constantly looking for other venues where you're going to a different idea
So I thought it was really cool how they went back and forth between that, and also the way they change between sections.
Umu: Okay. Well, next you'll be reacting to 'Bad Boy', a song off her first 2018 comeback mini album called 'Offset'.
She is singing about falling in love with a guy who has a reputation.
Charlotte: Oh, really? Peyton: For what? Umu: She knows she doesn't need him...
Umu: But feels bad boy Charlotte: Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Peyton: Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they sing about you?
Umu: You said two different lyrics. Who's right?
Charlotte: Me
Peyton: Oh, her. I've made something up.
Umu: Okay. So basically she knows she doesn't need him and feels free when she isn't with him, but is still in love with him despite that.
The song was composed by VINCENZO, Any Massinga, Fuxxi, and Anna Timgren.
Kevin: Bring that Fuxxi, let's go. Isaac: Fuxxi!
Who dat, who dat, who dat?
Oh, my gosh, she's doin' things.
Isaac: It stutters. Kevin: Yeah Isaac: Uh, uh, uh!!
Kevin: Oh!
Isaac: Yeah
Elizabeth: We got that like
funky bass that doesn't quite..
It changes pitch. James: She did a great vocal transition too, from like head to chest. It was really seamless.
I almost couldn't tell.
Lindsey: The scalar motion in the vocal line is doing good things.
Elizabeth: Now we got a walking bass! James: see that walking bass. Elizabeth: Holy crap! Okay!
Elizabeth: Now it's like swing music.
Kevin: What?! Isaac: What the heck?
Isaac: did this go major?
Jarod: Some harmonica.
Sounds like some harmonica, man, that's pretty tasty. Some like brass I heard in the background, too, that was funky.
Elizabeth: I have no idea what key we're in anymore.
See, this is minor.
James: Yeah
Elizabeth: So I think we're just tonicizing a couple keys in the chorus.
James: Yeah.
Fiona: I love this part. It's like she's telling a story. Listen to me. Like,
super cool. Lindsey: Yeah, the contour of this vocal line is really just like up and down.
Yeah. Probably just like her relationship with this bad boy.
Emiel: Does the swing thing happen again? Henry: Yeah
Peyton: It's like ... Charlotte: Harmonica? Is that harmonica? Peyton: Yeah
Peyton: I just went like this. I was like it's the....
Yeah
(mimicking harmonica)
Elizabeth: He's a bad boy because he can't stick to one key.
James: Uh, uh!
Uh, uh!
Collin: Cool. Where are we?
Jarod: Some whole tone sh*t going on. I think.
Henry: They really went for the aggressive like, delayed leading tones.
Elizabeth: Let's change the key again!
James: Uh!
Wow
Kevin: I like this section. Just the...
Ah, the sample comes back to the beginning. What a time.
Peyton: Well, the horn line's are actually pretty cool.
Both: (mimcking harmonica)
Kevin: Man
What's the roller coaster now?
Henry: I like that it sort of flirts with the swing thing.
It's got a little bit of the relaxed eighth note, Emiel: Yep Henry: but it actually like, commits to it at one point. Emiel: Wow
Kevin: You know, we just go to B-flat what we want.
Elizabeth: Imagine singing this would be hard.
Kevin: It's gonna end in B-flat.
STOP!!
It ended in B-flat.
Isaac: (singing ) Kevin: It ended in a key that it
wasn't even a part of, mostly. The key at the beginning is like a bluesy major,
so you're like, oh, it's G-major, but with a bluesy thing. And it's funny, because about a week ago,
which is a decade in internet time, I tweeted something about
British rhythm and blues bands, like the early Beatles and the early Rolling Stone stuff, how because they followed 12 bar blues structures
so rigidly, it is a miracle if they have a
relative minor chord, and if they have that, that automatically means their song is good.
A relative minor chord. Isaac: Huh
So in G-major, G-bluesey-major, if you use an E-minor,
that basically means your classic rock song is a cut above your average, Isaac: Everyone else Kevin: because the 12 bar blues is so prevalent.
This song goes all over the map.They're pulling some Beach Boys stuff going on,
but it's a different way than the Beach Boys would do it. That didn't even make any grammatical sense, but I'm keeping it.
Wow!
Wow, what a rollercoaster.
Collin: Wow. Cool. That was like moonwalking on the beach. That's what that was like.
Umu: Can you explain what musically made it moonwalking on the beach?
Collin: No. I can't.
I tell ya', I really can't.
That was good. This music keeps like,
I still don't know what to think. Like, it's crazy. Jarod: None of it's ever like the same. It's never the same
That's like, so you never know what to expect
Well, and that's the weird thing, because like it's taking aspects of genres that are pretty common, but yeah, it keeps creating unique things.
Lindsey: That was great. Fiona: Cool.
Lindsey: I really enjoyed it. Fiona: I Like how it sounded old-timey. They like altered some vocals, and put some like, I don't know what you call it, like filters on it.
Lindsey: I think that kind of made up for, because we were saying with the first one that we kind of wished that there was like
something more, and I think that kind of gave us something more. Fiona: Yes Lindsey: Like there was definitely a lot more there.There was more
variation on what was going on, she did a lot more vocally, it was just like, yeah.
I thought that was really well done piece of music
James: Huh, I'm out of breath again.
Elizabeth: Do you need to see doctor? James: I'm great. I'm just excited.
Elizabeth: That was... James: Interesting. Elizabeth: That was really interesting,
because it kind of wanted to be swing music a little bit with the walking bass, James: Yeah, I really liked that. Elizabeth: and it had like the drum set with the
cymbal.
James: Yeah Elizabeth: And then it like couldn't decide what key it wanted to be in. James: Um, hmm.
It's funny because like in some of these, they always try to plant
expectations and sometimes, like the degrees are different. That was like extreme.
I was like, what was that? Like that jolted me.
Yeah, but the defying of conventions and the subverting of our expectations, it wasn't with, in a rhythm,
James: No. Not at all. Elizabeth: Which is one of the they usually do, or like sudden texture. James: Or silence.
Elizabeth: Yeah. Or not even just a deceptive cadence, which is very effective
it was with just where are we in regard to tonic?
It's really hard to tell. James: Yeah. Elizabeth: So that was a way that they chose to sort of James: Totally.
Elizabeth: subvert expectations. James: Yeah
Isaac: I thought it was pretty interesting, the way the rhythms are just like jumping all up and about.
Like, I really enjoy when they start with really slow, steady 4, and then slowly as you gradually pick up the
pick up towards the apex or the climax of the song, Kevin: Apex
Isaac: Apex.
Once you reach the climax,
then they kick it into drive with like sixteenth notes. Like with the pizzicato bass, like bum, bum, bum, bum (singing) Kevin: Mm, hmm
Isaac: And so, it's like, I don't know, I feel like every time I listen to a jazz
chart, it's always interesting when they move up in tempo, in terms of like shortening the subdivisions, because
it's like, it's so fascinating because it's like the possibilities are endless. Like you don't know, it's like
are they gonna go into triplets, are they gonna do sixteenths, or sextuplets, or so on and so forth. Kevin: Right
And so it's always very refreshing to hear that
Kevin: Yeah Isaac: used very effectively, especially using the the different key changes, because that adds another medium of just possibility. Kevin: Mm, hmm
Kevin: I want to talk about that bridge.
I feel like it'd be amiss to not talk about that bridge. You were mentioning, like the apexes and climaxes, and I think
in a pop song sort of landscape where things are mostly repetitive, this song is already
not repetitive enough, but by the time we get to the bridge section, we're like
okay, this song must have already shown all the tricks in its bag.
I mean the thing is, we react to really interesting songs, but you know,
we like to keep a slightly cynical perspective, and say, okay,
with any song,
it will most likely stay in the same formula by the bridge. But this bridge, it
goes into new key areas, it introduces new sounds, it
reintroduces old sounds that we didn't think would reappear,
and the energy just keeps on going. It might not like reach a new high point, but it plateaus in a good way
until that final chorus, and then the coda is even better because it ends in B-flat major.
Wow.
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DO THIS to spread your life's purpose message In 2019 | INspire 20 - Duration: 13:37.
do this to spread your life's purpose message in 2019
the first thing that you need to consider is the way that we communicate through social media is
gonna hold so much power and tremendous opportunity and this is going to be
something that you can capitalize on when it comes to your life purpose right
so think about it like this when it comes to actually doing this right we
have the idea the the idea that we have right and what I mean by the idea is the
who am i question right so Who am I then after that we ask ourselves okay what do
I give right what do I give what's my gift right what gift and then who write
who we're gonna give this to right and you have to Dallas look like soup anyway
who give whatever anyway you are asking yourself like who are we focusing on
where are these people where am I gonna find these people right so this is this
is definitely more business related on this end but the thing that you have to
consider is that there is so much potential out there there's so much
opportunity out there and you have to be willing to take it you have to be
willing to go after it so when it comes to your life purpose
and how you can capitalize this year in 2019 right 2019 is this you have to
start becoming more social right it's gonna come down to being more social
that's all it is and this is one of the things that I I tell all my clients that
want to start a business and do their own thing it's real real simple it comes
down to this you have to start thinking about where
your audience is going to be and specifically like the reason why I do
youtube is because YouTube is the number - web site in the entire world number 2
website and it's owned by Google right owned by Google right my handwriting
sucks whatever you have this tremendous opportunity Google being the number one
the number one website in the world YouTube being number two right then you
have like Facebook and then eventually you have like Instagram reddit whatever
but look you have this tremendous market right here for you YouTube being the
number two search engine in the entire world that gives you the opportunity to
be seen by so many people now here's what I'm going to suggest you and here's
what you absolutely should do if you're not doing it you're you're I don't know
what you're doing but look number two search engine in the entire entire world
YouTube is a search engine Google is a search engine if you are focusing on
your spiritual and again this is this is for my life working friends right so and
again this could be applicable to anyone honestly but specifically this is for my
spiritual people my lightworkers right now when it comes to spreading your
message you have to focus down on one category that you do okay so here's what
I mean by that when you are doing anything any topics or if you're
starting up you charge YouTube channel or whatever you want to specifically
focus on one thing right so for me my thing is life it's a purpose right
that's what I do and I'm making videos all based on this content at all times
right but you can also apply this to any specific focus like a law of attraction
right and you see who's doing it really good is Aaron Tufte right or ironed out
yet but my apologies aren't if I like get your last name wrong but it's this
it's LOA right so he's doing this like insanely good right
he's just focusing on this one category that's it but you could do the same
thing for rikey you could do the same thing for like energetic healing right
I'm all over the place with this one you can do energetic healing you can do
this for for anything crystals right you can just focus on just one topic just
one topics one focus on just one thing at any given time and when you're
focusing on this one thing at any given time you now have the opportunity to
capture that one market you now have the opportunity to become the go-to person
for that one specific thing right so for me my team and I have been working on
this and I'm focusing on life purpose right someone else is doing Loa 12
attraction you could be doing rikey you can be doing crystals you could be doing
energetic healing whatever that is shamanism shamanism is like a big thing
right so like - all my - oh my so all my shamans out there it's big shout out to
all the shamans right look you could be happy you can be having a channel
talking about shamanism right just have that one topic and the main thing to
consider - with all of this all this because social media is changing I
remember back in like 2010 when you're not even by 2007 when I was like in
college and I was I was first hearing for the first time old like YouTube
whatever and I kicked myself in the ass because I should have just kept with it
like I had two other YouTube channels before like one private personal vlog
channel which did nothing like like crickets there was just nothing but
crickets there like I was putting up videos and no one's around then I had a
Fitness channel nothing right but one thing that I didn't realize is that I
was too broad right I had to focus on just one thing I had to be very focused
I had to be very clear about what I was giving right then from there I started
seeing this trend since 2007 YouTube has changed dramatically from being
something where where people post up like cat videos or whatever I mean you
still do that but look if you want to build a business YouTube is going to be
your number one place to be right and what you want to focus on with YouTube
is you want to go live you want to go live as much as possible okay and big
shout-out to to my team like I said before or helping me create this growth
strategy and big thanks to you Magda honestly because your insights and
analysis on this stuff is like so spot-on like a genius right
but look the live stuff the life is where you want to be you want to make
sure that you are engaging with people you are being social okay look people
people now more than ever want to see real they want to see authenticity and
like I channeled in in a couple of Vaughn's before and I and I told you
guys is that we are going to be having artificial intelligence on this planet
very soon okay so so the human interaction the human touch is going to
be even more special than ever it's going to be even more beautiful and
organic and natural so you absolutely need to incorporate all of this all of
this into your your strategy into your approach don't be afraid to go live
don't be afraid to get social okay if you're on Instagram right if you're on
Instagram do the Instagram go live make live content make something that people
want to interact with you for if you're doing YouTube same thing Facebook same
thing other social media sites same thing you really want to focus on the
stuff Pinterest whatever whatever you can do anything any way that you can go
live and you can get socials right and and that's going to be the
distinguishing factor you just focus on one thing and you do it as great as you
can and make no mistake about it we we are in the age of the artisan we are in
the age of the entrepreneur entrepreneurship has always been around
it's been like the backbone right we used to have bartering and all that
stuff you have a talent I don't want that thing that you have so let's
exchange let's let's do that exchange right and that's what we're going back
to now more than ever and it's again 2010 when I when I finished college when
I finished University YouTube was again it was it was growing but not at the
rate that it is growing now and it's just going to become
more niched more saturated like imagine this for a second imagine if you're
going to like you washing the YouTuber for a long time
and you know there's no one that comes by right or a corporation or whatever
you probably would more likely do business with the YouTube because you
know them right you've built up that that connection with them you've been
with them from the beginning you've seen them world and that's exactly what I saw
what I've been seeing these past homes like 10 years is in 2010 again remember
it was just growing the the concept of having an online business wasn't as
prevalent as it is now now you see people building six seven figure eight
finger businesses through YouTube through Instagram through social media
platforms and all it is is just again keeping those things in mind this is
where we're going now we have gone from and again we've gone from this stage of
what is this YouTube what is it about all you do YouTube to now it's like if
you have a youtube channel and it's successful and it's growing then it's
like wow we are actually able to build a sustainable business on these platforms
and look I gotta tell you you to permanent by 2020 eighteen in this year
made like over fifty four billion with a be fifty four billion dollars in revenue
do you really think that that's going to go away you get what I'm saying like
when people started figuring out like oh I can actually make money from YouTube I
can actually make money on a social media platform the matrix is invested in
this people are invested in these platforms in these tools
it's not gonna go away it's just gonna keep evolving it's just gonna keep
growing it's just gonna keep changing so you have to has a light worker right
look you have to spread your message and the only way to do that is through these
platforms that's something that I had to learn the hard way like I wanted to to
be more private I wanted to be more to myself secluded you know but I realized
like look I'm never going to be that that spread my message I'm not going to
be able to spread my message if I'm afraid if I'm a farmer shy right and
that's why last year in 2017 if you were watching my channel I was doing a lot of
live stream entire meetings another youtuber that does it that's so so
amazing is Tyler Tyler Sara this guy is genius like he went last
year I remember like our channels he had like 30,000 subscribers so now this year
having like over a hundred and like 40 thousand YouTube subscribers just off a
wide shooting he's not doing anything else except for those livestream timings
and he does it better than anybody else that I've seen and it's just about
taking that that that concept and applying that everywhere look people
don't want to see fake anymore people want to see real they want to see what
you can offer they want to see you and you expressing yourself your gifts your
talents in your way and remember you have to you have to again think about
the human touch the human element behind that like I said before artificial
intelligence is going to be a very big thing very very soon so the need for the
human component is going to be more one-point than ever before so if you've
ever been thinking about starting up a YouTube channel and starting up an
Instagram or whatever cone at it from a business perspective okay treat this as
a business treated as what can I do to grow what can I do to spread my message
through these platforms and when you can find that thing right that that micro
niche way like I was talking about whether
traction whether the tower on whether in the right key whether it be like purpose
whatever that is Mitchell focus in on it
document it make sure that you are the go-to person for that and always go live
try to go live as much as you can try to get that that interaction between you
and the people that support you because that's that's how you are going to grow
more and more and more because they're seeing that you're a real person you're
on the spot like in my videos you see me doing edits
and like all this other stuff or whatever but when you see me on the live
stream it's it's a little bit different you're seeing more like me having to
react think faster be more on the spot so I want to hear from you know if
you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel or if you have a YouTube channel
and you're trying to spread your life's purpose message in 2019 what's your
strategy leave that down in the comments below help somebody out and until next
time I love you
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Chris Hill: Fourth quarter profits for Apple up 41% compared to a year ago.
But, shares of Apple falling 6% on Friday after iPhone sales came in flat year over year.
Jason, a lot of grousing among Wall Street analysts about this one.
Jason Moser: Let's everybody just take a step back. Let's keep things in context here.
Bears will try to frame this quarter and the information we gleaned from the quarter into
some earth-shattering move that shows that Apple's best days are behind it.
That's just not the case.
The big noise that's being made is that management is going to stop reporting unit sales for
iPhones, iPads, Macs.
When you want to steer your identity away from being primarily a phone company,
this is a logical decision. "Hey, let's not worry about being so granular."
And I think management's point on the call is actually right in that today, a unit of
sale is less relevant for them than it was in the past.
If you look at iPhones alone, there are a lot of different models now.
You've got enough models to accommodate a very big market.
It's not necessarily indicative of the health of the business because they're also selling
iPads and Macs, but even more so the Services side of the business.
And there is something to be said for the Wearables side of the business, as well.
They're witnessing some pricing pressures in emerging markets. Not terribly surprising.
Average selling prices are not going to go to the moon.
They also made the point that they released the most expensive line of phones here first,
and the cheaper line of phones is going to be coming out this quarter.
It was the opposite last year.
That average selling price that was so high this quarter, reasonable to assume it'll probably
be a little bit lower next quarter.
But at the end of the day, these guys are selling millions and millions of iPhones.
I don't think that's going to stop.
If anything, maybe we see a little bit of time between replacements now, because phones
are better and we're getting more time out of the phones that we buy.
But they've still got quite the loyal customer base. I think things are going to be OK.
Ron Gross: I think there were probably a lot of disappointed analysts out there who will
no longer get quarterly unit data.
We're all paid to opine on a quarterly basis about the health of Apple and all the other
companies we follow. But for shareholders, I don't really think it matters.
I'd love to see that data released on an annual basis, so we can calm down on a quarterly basis,
and just look at things annually. But I'm not actually sure they're even going to do that.
I would encourage them to give us data on a yearly basis.
Moser: I will say, on the flip side of this, because they are focusing the business more
on the Services aspect, they are going to give us a little bit more information in regard to that.
We're not only going to get the revenue that the Services segment generates, but also the
costs involved with that revenue.
We'll be able to see how profitable that is and start looking ahead to see how profitable
it can one day become.
Matt Argersinger: Can we also just mention that Apple has more cash on its balance sheet
than the size of all but 10 companies on the planet? It's a remarkable number.
I know we talk about it every quarter, and it's not surprising, but it's still just remarkable to me.
Moser: The bottom line with this, and what I think investors want to know -- what do I do?
Is this a problem? Is this a crisis? Do I need to sell my Apple shares? Absolutely not.
This is just as good a business today as it was yesterday before they announced these results.
If you're a shareholder in Apple, you need to hang on to those shares, knowing that you're
an owner of one of the most important companies in the world.
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YouTube Premieres: The 50 Year Experiment! - Duration: 13:18.
- It is the burning question
that nobody's ever thought to ask,
but we're gonna answer it anyway.
What if you scheduled a YouTube video
to premiere 50 years in the future
and then ask people to like that video
even though they have no chance of watching it?
Let's find out.
- [Man] VidIQ.
- [Woman] VidIQ.
- [Man] Vidiq.com.
- First of all I think we owe some of you an apology.
If these thumbnails were dominating your subscription feed
towards the end of last week, yeah that was us.
We didn't realize that was gonna happen.
You must be sick and tired of my face by now.
If you're not, hello everybody.
My name is Rob.
Welcome to vidIQ, the YouTube tool and tunnel
that aims to help you get more views in less time
by educating you on your YouTube journey.
Our Chrome extension tool will help you research YouTube,
analyze videos, audit your own channel,
and take actual steps that will help grow your channel.
It is free to download and there is a link
in the video description.
Alright then, time for some context.
Premiere is a new YouTube feature
that allows you to schedule a video
in advance of publication that creates a watch page,
which viewers can then visit in preparation
for the launch of a video and then engage
in livestream chat during the premiere.
Once the premiere has finished,
the video goes on demand like any normal video would.
We have already done a video tutorial on how it works,
so check it out if you need to know more.
The reason we are revisiting this topic
is because now that it's been rolled out
to all video creators the response seems
to be largely negative.
Take the Strange Parts channel as an example.
They make videos about building tech from parts in China.
Really fun stuff.
They decided to use a premiere feature
for a video they had worked on for months,
but it really didn't perform that well for their channel.
As you might expect the video creator
was a little upset about this
and he made a video about his experience
with premiers that probably took an hour or two to make
and has almost as many views
as a video the channel had worked tirelessly on.
I mean, I know it's one thing for the YouTube algorithm
to seemingly arbitrarily suppress your content.
At least you don't have any control over that,
but when YouTube introduces new features
and encourages you to actively use them and you do,
it's a gamble that doesn't pay off
and it actually has a detrimental affect to your videos.
That can't be right but to find out more,
we needed to do a YouTube premiere test ourselves,
but we were gonna make sure we had some fun with it
and this is what we did.
(bright music)
The idea behind the premiere is to make people aware
of your content before it goes live
to build upon anticipation.
After all, you know the release date
of a movie weeks in advance thanks to all that marketing.
The most crucial element of all of this,
is that YouTube tells you through notifications
and subscription feeds that new content is on the way,
very much like a scheduled livestream,
but you can't watch it yet.
So that's the first thing I wanted to try and break.
I mean test of course.
How far in advance can you schedule a YouTube premiere
and how is YouTube going to inform
its user base about that premiere?
Let's try and answer the scheduling question first.
We uploaded a quick video
and tried to premiere it 100 years in the future,
but when we do that, YouTube kicks back an error saying
that there's something temporarily wrong with their service.
In actuality, this seems to trip
some sort of scheduling bug or error
because we couldn't reschedule a video
to any time after this.
We had to delete the video and start all over again.
So we went for something a little bit more conservative.
50 years in the future.
And YouTube accepted this no problem.
There is a cutoff date somewhere, but I would say any video
that's premiering more than a month
in advance is far too long.
We didn't know what was gonna happen with this premiere,
so we didn't want to risk it on the vidIQ account.
Instead, we trialed this on a test account,
which has never had a video uploaded to it before
and has no YouTube history.
So that's another interesting
and somewhat worrying aspect of premieres.
Anybody with a YouTube channel could do this.
So we knew we could premiere a video far into the future
when YouTube probably doesn't exist
and we all live under water.
We just needed a hook, an idea for that video.
There's a certain channel that's had a lot of success
with this sort of thing, PewDiePie.
You may have heard of him.
I don't know what to call this
other than engagement challenges.
Can this video get one million likes
or one million comments and so on?
You might call this the gamification of the YouTube platform
and the thought suddenly occurred to me.
We have a video that nobody can watch for 50 years,
but we need people to engage with it.
So let's set up a challenge.
Can this video get 100 likes before anybody watches it?
So we recorded a short video and uploaded it as a premiere
to the vidIQ account premiering in 50 years.
Alright then, onto the next question.
How is YouTube going to share this premiere,
which doesn't happen for another 50 years with its users?
This is where things get a little messy.
(bright music)
The first thing that astonished me
was that people actually bought into this idea.
We surpassed 100 likes within the first hour
and hit 1000 likes within 24 hours.
You would usually expect to average
maybe one like per 10 views,
and now we were getting 100 of likes with zero views,
which led to the hashtag more likes no views.
There was a lot of fun to be had in the comments, too.
People setting reminders for the premiere in 50 years time.
Others admiring the content they couldn't actually watch.
One person admitted they'd rather wait 50 years
to see this video than watch another Logan Paul video.
Many were curious to know what the video was actually about
and forget how many likes we could get
before the video premiere, one crafty commenter
wanted their post pinned before anyone watched the video.
The success of this video which technically wouldn't exist
for another 50 years caught me a little off guard.
I'd started with the humble objective
of trying to reach 100 likes,
but I had to quickly update my thumbnail
as we surpassed 250 likes, then 500 likes,
and that's when the messy stuff started to happen.
What we soon discovered was that the premiere was appearing
multiple times in subscription feeds
and what made it even worse was the fact
that you couldn't really get rid of 'em.
If you tried to hide one of the premieres from a subs feed,
it didn't hide the other ones,
and then a few hours later an entirely new notification
for the premiere hit the top of your subscription feeds.
How annoying is that?
This led to the genuine question on concern.
Would this premiere really keep premiering
at the top of the subs feed for the next 50 years?
That's a small insight into the YouTube user's experience,
but what about the video creator's experience of premieres?
That's even more confusing.
Is a premiere video before it goes live
actually classed as a public video?
I think that's an important question to answer
because we are all told that initial video velocity
can be very important to a video's long term success,
and if a premiere video is sitting in a public state
for days with nobody actually watching it,
how does that affect it?
In the new creator studio, the moment the video is set
to premiere the video analytics start
to track the video as if its gone public,
but of course there are no views to track yet,
but according to YouTube this video has been public
for over 19 hours now.
I don't understand.
The impressions funnel was even more confusing.
After having the premiere up for 24 hours,
it was telling me the video had 26,000 impressions
with 0% click through rates,
but by this point over 1000 people had liked the video
and the only way to do that is to click on the thumbnail.
YouTube's own help pages state
that YouTube will recommend a video to viewers
if the video is relevant to the viewer
and if the viewer finds the video interesting,
as reflected by the video's average view duration.
So with impressions but no click through rate,
no views and no view duration,
how does YouTube treat this video?
And to be honest, I'm not convinced
these impressions metrics are correct either.
If this premiere keeps repeating on itself
within people's subscription feeds
and its already got 1000 likes
that would suggest more than 26,000 impressions to me.
Yeah, sorry about that.
I was getting a little bit pedantic over
all of those analytical questions, but I'm a stats man,
and I'm interested in the numbers behind the videos
and when I don't have that information,
it really frustrates me and premieres seems
to be a black hole of analytics.
Anyway, back to our video,
which was YouTube premiere in 50 years time.
We were happy to let this run for days, weeks, even months.
The goals was to try and reach 10,000 likes
and then we would premiere it the day after
or something like that.
And after 24 hours, we hit 1000 likes which was fantastic.
However, the concern was that this premiere was appearing
far too often in subscription feeds.
It wasn't just appearing once.
It was appearing multiple times
and we worried that users were gonna unsubscribe from vidIQ
and when does gamification of YouTube
to try to get more likes become deception,
which is really misleading users
and could lead to a strike basically
and we didn't want that of course.
This was merely a test.
So we decided to end this project at 1000 likes
and this is what happened next.
(bright music)
A couple of interesting observations to note
while the premiere was set to 50 years in the future.
Firstly, ultra respect to the seven determined souls
who were waiting for the premiere to start.
Secondly, the livestream element
of the premiere was disabled.
One of the key components of premieres is that it allows
viewers to engage in chat before and during the premiere,
but if you set the premiere too far
into the future live chat is unavailable.
As soon as we changed our premiere date
to the following day rather than 50 years in the future,
livestream chat did start appearing.
The challenge to see how many likes we could get
lasted 24 hours and we got 1000 likes in that time.
When we decided to end the challenge
and switch the premiere from 50 years to the next day,
that effectively killed, I guess,
engagement momentum for the premiere.
I think this illustrates just how important
titles and thumbnails are.
Remember at this point nobody has watched the video,
but when we had a challenging, intriguing title
that people wanted to get involved with,
we got a lot of engagement.
As soon as that dynamic went, so did the audience,
so just bare that in mind with all of your content.
In the build up to the premiere,
I got all the notifications I expected
including one 30 minutes before it started
and another one the moment the video premiered.
However, that didn't seem to be the case for all users
with CZsWorld saying that he only gets notifications
about premieres when they are unwatchable.
As the video premiered, there were 40 plus people watching
and the live chat was fairly active.
Yes, 10,000 likes.
This is your reward.
It's rubbish.
- [Man] VidIQ.
- [Woman] VidIQ.
- [Man] Vidiq.com.
- Yeah, as you may have noticed I made the video
with the expectation that we were going to hit 10,000 likes,
but we had to end the challenge early
because of the issues I already reported to you.
So again, it was interesting to note
that you could change fundamental mechanics of the video
in terms of the thumbnail and the title
but ultimately you couldn't change the content
even if you wanted to.
You would have to start the whole premiere process again
and let's go back to those analytics.
So remember before the premiere, it tracked the video
as if it was public with impressions data.
Well, note the date here is when
the video was set as a premiere.
When I returned to the analytics after the video premiered,
the date and the data had reset.
So now we can views and watch time
as we would expect from a public video.
Impressions is zero which is what we usually expect
from a public video in the first 24 hours,
but we already know there should
be 26,000 impressions there.
As for real time analytics,
there was a second view spike after six minutes,
which is probably when the premiere
of the video would have finished.
As for the video performance,
well in the first eight hours,
its tracking bang on average of a watch time
and view duration is lower than usual,
but that's mainly because it premiered video itself
was much shorter than our usual content.
I guess you could argue that given
how well received the idea was before it premiered,
we should have expected more views,
but it's really impossible to say.
What have we actually learned from all this then?
Well, YouTube has one or two bugs it needs to fix.
Being able to premiere a video 50 years
into the future is completely ridiculous
and the way the analytics are displayed to the video creator
while the video is in its premiere state
just aren't helpful at all.
I think for most YouTube users,
they've got a feature they never asked for
and now they have it, it just annoys them.
YouTube premieres takes us back
to the television restrictions of scheduled content.
You know when it's gonna start
but you have to wait for it to start
and nobody wants that on YouTube.
They want to consume the content here and now.
The building up of anticipation
for a video is just something
that the YouTube generation has no appetite for
and the last thing YouTubers want is multiple reminders
of something they can't watch.
We used YouTube premieres in a way
that had nothing to do with the video content itself.
It was more a play on the entire feature
and that's the only reason we had any success with it.
If you were to ask us would we use YouTube premieres
on a regular basis?
Not likely.
Not in its current state.
Should you use YouTube premieres in its current state?
Well you could maybe trial it on video content
that you're not too concerned about.
You haven't put a lot of effort into just to trial it,
but on a regular basis, not now.
Wait for the feature to mature
and then see if there are any real advantages to using it.
We've got awesome content over here.
We'll see you on those videos right now.
Enjoy the rest of your video making day.
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Here's Why Teladoc's Stock Soared After the Company's Recent Earnings - Duration: 3:05.
Chris Hill: Shares of Teladoc up this week after third quarter revenue came in higher than expected.
They're still losing money, Jason, but Teladoc appears to be losing less money.
Jason Moser: They are, and they do have a clear path to profitability.
That's one of those things we always like to see these with unprofitable new IPOs.
They've been in the market now for a few years.
When you look at the business, its market, this is an attractive opportunity.
It tackles perhaps the greatest challenge in healthcare, scaling it.
It's very difficult to go through their release and the call and not be excited with what they're doing.
U.S. paid memberships now stand at 22.6 million people.
The visit-fee-only population is about 9.5 million. There was another interesting point they made there.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services just published the rules which will allow
Medicare Advantage plans to include telehealth as part of their bids in 2020.
What that ultimately means is that Teladoc is going to be able to offer its full suite
of services to those 21 million additional enrollees.
We talked about when they changed their name from Teladoc to Teladoc Health.
It's really about this comprehensive, holistic solution.
The partnership with CVS, that's not something that was just entered into lightly.
There was a lot of research done with that from 2014 on.
We're seeing that rolled out now in the Minute Clinics, these virtual Minute Clinics.
And you'll see, as time goes on, CVS try to leverage that physical presence in those stores.
It's going to be less about buying Pringles and more about actually focusing on good health, I think.
Probably easy to look at the share price today and anchor, feel like it's taken off and you
missed the boat. I would encourage you to take another look.
It's still a very reasonable price for a company that has a big opportunity ahead.
Hill: I'm going to overlook the shot you just took at Pringles.
Ron Gross: Yeah, what's wrong
with Pringles? Salty goodness. Moser: Well, it's less a Pringles thing --
what if we said Combos? Matt Argersinger: Ooh, I like Combos!
Gross: Not the Pizza-flavored ones.
Hill: Really quick on Teladoc, this is a $5 billion company, and I don't think I could
name one of their competitors. I'm sure they have them in this space.
To what extent, if any, is management talking about acquisitions?
They appear to be big enough now that, if they've got smaller competitors that they
can snap up and incorporate, that might be a good move.
Moser: That's a good point you make.
Most of the competition in the space is much smaller than they are.
They've made a couple of big acquisitions to date so far.
The most recent one was Advance Medical, and what that did was give them global exposure.
They now have this global service called Global Care, where they can accommodate patients
all over the world. Really, it makes a lot of sense, what they've been doing.
They've been trying to gain as much market share early on as possible.
Yes, that plays out on the financials in the short run, but long-run, I think it's going
to be the smartest decision.
Hill: Do you think they could go to Apple and ask to borrow some of that cash they have
on the balance sheet? Moser: Hey, it's worth a shot.
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David Gardner: "No great thing is created suddenly." Who said that?
Do you remember our last "Great Quotes episode, Volume VIII" dating back to May 16th of this year?
Anyone? Anyone? Well done! I know some of you got that right.
The Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus.
Or how about Teddy Roosevelt's, "The greatest thing in life is hard work worth doing."
Why are we rocking other people's silver tongues this week?
Why, it must be "Great Quotes, Volume IX." [...]
Gardner: And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing! I'm David Gardner.
Thanks so much for spending a little bit of time suffering a Fool gladly this week.
It's been an investing-heavy month for Rule Breaker Investing, the podcast, looking back
over the first three weeks of October. Last week, "200 Stock Advisor Picks Later."
That was a special podcast because it's not every week that I get to reflect on making
my 200th consecutive monthly stock pick for Motley Fool Stock Advisor.
That's what I did last week.
If you're a Stock Advisor member you now know what the stock was and if you're a Rule Breaker Investing
podcast listener, you heard me with six conclusions thinking back through those
200 months which, by the way, quick math shows is about 16 and a half years and I hope you
enjoyed those reflections. The week before that was the "League of Extraordinary Stock Pickers."
I got to interview a new friend -- somebody who had won the contest in Motley Fool Rule Breakers
for picking Best Buys Now over the last year.
I also reviewed "Five Great Stocks You've Never Heard Of," one of my five-stock samplers
from a year before.
And then the first week of this month was "Get Started Investing," and as you'll remember,
I hope, if you heard it, that was part one of two, so I had my friends David Kretzmann,
Jason Moser, and Matt Argersinger in.
They joined with me and our goal of that podcast was to get you get started investing.
I hope it was helpful for you.
I also said it was part one of two because I'm going to ask you to help us back.
If you continue to have questions, if we missed anything, if you'd like to add something or
plus-up anything that we've said, we'd love for you to e-mail us RBI@Fool.com.
You can also tweet us @RBIPodcasts on Twitter. And why am I asking for that?
Well, we're going to take in those questions, and that's really going to be the main course
of Get Started Investing two out of two, and we'll be doing that the very first week of
next month, the first week of November.
So RBI@Fool.com if you have any additional questions about getting started investing.
And so, yeah, it's been an investing-heavy month for this podcast and that's why I thought,
"Yeah, maybe time to go back to a non-investing topic that has recurred more frequently than
any other non-investing topic on my podcast, and that's just looking over some great quotations."
I'm a big fan of saving great quotes. I use Evernote. That's how I do it.
I know there are a lot of ways to hold onto information, but for me I've always enjoyed
Evernote, so when I come across a great quote from a CEO or a Greek stoic philosopher,
I'll just drop it into Evernote. I have notebooks lined up.
I have one that's called Visceral Quotations. When I really feel it in my gut I put it in there.
Or maybe business quotations.
I have one Evernote called Fool/ Folly Quotations because there are, of course, so many great
quotes about wisdom and folly. Very important for The Motley Fool to take note of.
So I've got a lot of different quote notes and all in my quotes notebook.
That's where I save my stuff and that's what I get to pull out once every few months, here,
and this is, indeed Volume IX of my great quotes series.
And that means that I've done this eight other times before and, if you feel inspired or
enjoy this, I like to think each of those past eight podcasts will age pretty well,
because they're kind of done to be an evergreen resource to anybody.
So if you find yourself moved, or if you enjoy the inspiration I'm going to share with you
in our time together this week, feel free to look back at my May 16th "Great Quotes, Volume VIII."
There's an all-Buffett one a year before that.
You can go back through Rule Breaker Investing podcast investing history.
And these days, by the way, I should mention, you can even find transcripts of my past podcasts.
My teammate producer Rick Engdahl working with [Brian Tai] here at The Motley Fool and
some of our Fool techies has made it possible, now, through Transcripts.Fool.com to find
transcripts for this and, indeed, most of our other podcasts.
So you can find some great quotes that way more quickly and not have to listen to a Foolish
old windbag if you like a little bit more efficient way of finding good stuff.
So anyway, I've got good stuff for you. I have five quotations lined up.
That's typically what I've tried to do with this series [find five], and a motley mix
of things that are investing, or business, or life-related. So I say without further ado, let's get started.
Great Quotation No. 1: This one comes from William Shakespeare. I bet you've heard of him.
In fact, I hope you know that The Motley Fool's corporate name comes from Shakespeare.
That was from Act 2, Scene 7 of As You Like It, but this time I'm going to
The Winter's Tale, which is a tragicomedy.
It's really one of my favorite plays of all of Shakespeare's.
It doesn't tend to get put on as often as something like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet,
but The Winter's Tale [no spoilers!] starts with a tragic few acts and then ends with a comic few acts.
It's a wonderful story and one of Shakespeare's most famous stage directions is the quote
that I'm pulling from The Winter's Tale and here it is: "Exit, pursued by a bear."
There's some debate as to whether in Elizabethan times they used a real bear onstage to chase
Antigonus, the actor, who's exiting being pursued by a bear, or whether it was just
an actor in a bear costume.
And I'm sure in centuries since there's probably been a little bit of both.
I, personally, would love to see a live bear onstage, but not if you're Antigonus,
because Antigonus, as he gets chased off offstage, that's the last we ever see of him.
He is presumed dead, presumably by that bear.
But why would I lead off with "Exit, pursued by a bear," and call that a great quotation?
Well, in a little bit of, I would say, "linguistic leisure domain," I made this an epigraph in
the very first edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide.
Now, an epigraph, as you may well know, is a quotation that will lead off a chapter,
or a section, or a part of a book, and I thought this is the perfect one to lead off our chapter
on selling stocks and selling strategy.
"Exit, pursued by a bear," because, of course, it's a wonderful pun on bear markets,
which is why I wanted to talk a little bit, here, at the outset of this podcast about bear markets.
You know, most bear markets last somewhere between 12 to 18 months.
They're much briefer than bull markets. Bull markets run over years.
Bear markets are usually counted in months, but as I've often said in the past,
stocks go down faster than they go up; and so, when bear markets strike, like a bear strikes with
its paw down, stocks go down and often a lot faster than you or I would like.
And I would say, right now, here at the end of October 2018, I think we might be in a bear market.
Now, how do I conclude that?
Well, I look at my own scorecard, picking stocks for Motley Fool Rule Breakers,
and I look back over the last several months, and each of my picks is down and losing to
the market, in some cases 20% or so.
And when I see stocks lose about one-fifth of their value and it's happening fairly consistently,
I start going, "Well, when did that start?"
And for me it was around mid-June, so doing quick math on my own family portfolio that
I manage, I'm down about 15% from June to this week. So that's not a great performance.
That's definitely a time that I wish the market hadn't done that over the last several months.
Although when I look at the S&P 500, which is a broader market measure than my family
portfolio or your portfolio, I'll note that actually the market's about where it was as of June.
This week, as of mid-June, it really hasn't moved.
But it has surged higher than that in the meantime, and then fallen down over the last month.
So those keeping score at home looking at the broad market will note that over the last
30 days, the market's down about 7% as I tape this podcast, here, on Tuesday, October 23rd.
So I think, at least for me and my style, for the Rule Breaker Investing approach,
I think we're in a bear market right now. It's been lasting a few months.
Some of the damage has already been done and there will probably be some more damage done. We'll see.
I'm not one to make big market calls and I hope you realize that when I say that I think
we're in a bear market. It doesn't change how I invest and I'm certainly not trying to alarm anyone.
And I'm also just guessing, because we really never know until we look back 12 or 18 months
later and say that was a bear market.
Of course, people are constantly predicting where the market will go and a lot of people
thought there would be a bear market in 2013, and 2014, and 2015, and then 2016 and then 2017 and 2018.
So there's always a lot of guesswork, but we really only know when "Exit, pursued by a bear" matters;
once it's already happened.
So I wanted to lead off with "Exit, pursued by a bear," because I think it's a great pun
for investors pulled right from my favorite playwright, William Shakespeare,
and I want to point out what actually ends up happening to Antigonus when he exits pursued by a bear
and, as I mentioned earlier, no spoilers really, but he'll never be seen again.
And I don't think that's a great outcome for you or me as investors.
So when I see a bear, I don't exit.
And I'm here to suggest that you should not exit, either, unless you're overinvested.
Unless you've borrowed on margin, which you should never have done according to us
here at The Motley Fool for the most part.
Or, if you really did need the money for something else like a home payment or something else
in the next three years.
We've always said here at Fool HQ -- we're now in our 26th year as a business of saying this --
that you as an investor should only have money in the stock market that you can
afford to lose and that you won't need for three-plus years, because the next three years
[any given three-year period] could be bad and I'd hate to think that you were
risking money that you actually needed for something else.
Of course, we're always playing the only game that counts, here, at The Motley Fool and
that is the long-term game.
So "Exit, pursued by a bear" is not only a fun pun uniting Shakespeare with investing,
but it's a warning to us as investors not to exit.
[With] most of the bears that you see over the course of your life -- and again, if you're
making a lifetime commitment to being invested in the stock market, which is, I think,
one of the best decisions you can make [and history and data proves that out] -- then you'll recognize
that with almost every bear you see, you should stay on stage.
Before I go to Great Quotation No. 2, I should mention that I think a lot of people, in particular
in recent years, have feared a bear market because they think it could be really bad. And why is that?
Well, the last couple of bear markets have historically been horrible
[2008-2009 and then, of course, 2001].
Those two markets [the Great Recession and then the dot.com bomb] really saw the markets
lose about half their value and in some cases more if you're counting the Nasdaq.
Great companies like Amazon -- I remember back in 2001-2002 -- went from like $95 in
2000 down to $7 at its bottom and I think in 2001 the numbers are right around there.
But my point is that was a drastic drop in one of the great companies of our time, and
I think it's easy to be looking in the rearview mirror and think that's what bear markets look like.
But that's really not the case.
So I think people are probably overrating and a little bit too afraid of the idea
of the next recession or the next bear market. A thought.
Great Quotation No. 2: This one comes from one of my favorite investment writers.
An investor who wrote a great book.
I was thinking about him recently [today] having not thought about him in some years
because I was saying hello to Nick Sciple. Nick is a new Fool.
I have a new Fool coffee with every one of our new Fools who come through Fool HQ.
I've done that for a couple of decades.
It's always a pleasure to see our new employees and what they're doing to help our cause to
make the world smarter, happier, and richer.
And for some of you who listen to Motley Fool podcasts, you'll recognize that Nick does
an Industry Focus podcast recently having taken over the microphone.
He's a new Fool but one who has more exposure than most Fools because he's a podcaster.
Nick was [talking] to me today [about] Phil Fisher who wrote a great book,
It turns out the year was 1958. I double-checked my math, here.
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and it's a classic.
Nick said to me, "You know, a lot of what he says in there is how you and we invest
at The Motley Fool. We might think we're doing The Fool thing.
That we're radical and doing a new thing.
A lot of how we think about things, like the best time to sell is never and those kinds of lines --
a lot of those derive from Fisher."
And I said to Nick, "First of all, thanks for reminding me of that, because of the few
investment books I've read in my lifetime, one of them that I did read is Phil Fisher's
book and I thought it was excellent."
So before I give his quote, here, for Great Quotation No. 2, I'm going to say that dear Fool,
if you've never read Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, I highly recommend you do so.
Yes, it may read a bit dated, because it was written before the internet; yup, about 40 years
before the internet showed up, but it really contains so much good thinking that
feels fresh and like it was written yesterday. Anyway, here's Great Quotation, No. 2.
Great Quotation No. 2: "Finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them
through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people
than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear."
That's Fisher -- one of his writings, a great quotation -- reminding us that it is, in fact,
as the old saw goes, time in the market and not timing the market.
That's not a Fisher saw. That's just an old investment phrase.
But that's the way to win.
So I'm obviously keying back to Great Quotation No. 1, "Exit, pursued by a bear," encouraging you
not to exit because again, with Phil Fisher, "Finding the really outstanding companies
and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable
to far more people." I don't think I need to say a lot more about this.
I think it speaks for itself.
It kind of keys to my first quotation, and it's one of our primary points that I've made
on this podcast for a few years, now, and that Fool.com and so many of our writers,
advisors, and analysts have made that point for a few decades.
I do want to say, before I move onto Great Quotation No. 3, what other investment books
I would recommend or I have enjoyed, and I mentioned earlier that I haven't really read that many.
I don't typically find investing books that interesting to read.
I did read, How to Read a Financial Report. I believe that's by John Tracy.
And since I was an undergrad English major, and I never took an accounting course,
as I graduated college already a stock market investor, I thought, "You know, I should get
a better handle on financial statements."
That was a great way for me of uniting my understanding of what's on an income statement,
which is basically showing the profits of a company [or losses].
And then second what's on a balance sheet, which is basically the bank account for that company.
And then finally the cash flow statement, which is kind of like looking at cash in and
cash out from that bank account. Like what you're spending on a daily basis.
So those three financial statements -- the income statement, the balance sheet, and the
statement of cash flows -- that's a wonderful book to understand how they work together.
It speaks to sort of a fifth-grade math level; things like addition, subtraction, division,
and multiplication which is about as complicated as I like my math to get.
And by the way, I really do like math. I think we should all like math.
But that book stays right there with us and I think can really help anybody get a better
grip on financial statements, so I definitely want to mention that one.
Of course, I want to mention Peter Lynch's book, One Up on Wall Street, which was formative for me.
This was written about 30 years ago, so while many of the companies that he's writing about
will sound like old-time companies that you may not have heard of anymore; again,
the lessons and his wonderful wit comes through and helps all of us as investors.
He also wrote, Beating the Street as a follow-up. That's another book that I've read.
I'll mention three other books really quickly. One is William O'Neil's book, How to Make Money in Stocks.
I've said it's both some of the greatest and some of the worst writing that I've ever seen
in a single book to help and hurt investors.
Where I think O'Neil is brilliant -- O'Neil, by the way, the founder of Investor's Business Daily,
a publication I've certainly appreciated over the course of my life -- where he has
it nailed is he looks at studies that show what the great stocks are of an era,
and he looks at the traits that lead to those stocks. And in many cases he teaches us contrary things.
So when I first read, How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil, I was probably more
focused on 52-week lows as the time that I would start to look to buy a stock.
Like the stock is at a low, so I should be more interested, I thought, in the stock because of that reason.
But in fact O'Neil shows through studies, and some really good writing, that you should
be looking at 52-week highs because [this is one of my themes for 2018 on this podcast]
"winners win!" What do winners do? That's right. They win. And, as it turns out, that's often true of stocks.
So stocks at 52-week highs typically go on to make more highs and new highs in the coming
months or years vs. stocks that are bouncing around from low to high and back to low again.
So I like to find companies that grow and I'm happy to pay for them when they're at
their 52-week high. That's what O'Neil convinced me.
However, a lot of his book includes advice about trying to time the market and guessing
where the market's going.
I hope you didn't take me too seriously, earlier, when I said I thought we might be in the fourth
month of a bear market because first of all, I don't care that much about it.
I'm going to be invested anyway. And second, I really don't know.
But I think O'Neil tries to persuade you that you can know, and he uses a whole bunch of
different metrics that, taken together, read confusingly to me.
There's too many different ways or indicators of figuring out where the market's headed.
He also advises [and I think this is really bad advice] to never take a big loss.
So if a stock drops 7%, he's often said and written in the past you should just exit that
regardless of the research that you did, or what you believe in the company because
you want to avoid those losses.
And I hope I've demonstrated through my work at The Motley Fool and through this podcast
that taking losses is fine. It's natural and in a lot of ways I say we need to lose to win.
I'm not going to belabor that point here because I've made it elsewhere.
The last two books I want to mention quickly.
Benjamin Graham's book, The Intelligent Investor; Benjamin Graham, of course, the great influence
on Warren Buffett.
I read about half of that book as a young man and I just didn't keep reading it.
I found it pretty boring, backward looking, and its methodologies around valuation while
interesting, never compelled me.
And in a lot of ways, Rule Breaker Investing succeeds because a lot of other people follow
Benjamin Graham. And I can't not mention Jack Bogle, one of my personal heroes.
It's somebody that I've had on this podcast before.
I've never really read any of Bogle's investment books.
I'm not a huge index fund fan, even though we, here, at The Motley Fool have turned many
people onto index funds as a better answer to the mutual funds that they owned before
the simplicity and low cost of a good index fund.
But what I love Bogle for is his emphasis on character and his thinking about business.
So a book like, Enough, while not really an investment book I thought I should mention briefly, here.
I'm not giving you my Mount Rushmore of investing books because I really haven't read enough
ever to be able to sort through and have a grand Mount Rushmore.
In closing on this one, I find myself reading books often about business, not about investing.
Or about culture, or life, or technology, or the future; again, as opposed to reading investing books.
I'm sure your mileage may well vary.
We're all different, but I'm just sharing out how I think about these things.
Great Quotation No. 3: Great Quotation No. 3 comes from one of my favorite CEOs;
maybe one of your favorite CEOs, too. I won't even name him yet.
Maybe you can guess from the quote itself.
This is like a paragraph -- several sentences strung together.
He begins, "I see all the imperfections in Netflix. I see all the things that aren't working.
At the office I'm the one that says, 'We suck. Don't get me wrong.
We're better than everyone else, but we suck compared to what we are going to be.'
Of course, in general, I'm constraining myself from saying these things because they are
too easy to take out of context. But as an entrepreneur, that's how you have to look at your product.
Compare yourself to what you want to be, what you will be, in five years, and that should be
so much better than what you have today."
So yes, you've probably guessed by now that's the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings.
And what's fun about that quotation -- I'm going to say a little bit more about it as
an entrepreneur in a second -- but what's fun about that quotation is he didn't say it
last month or last year.
I pulled that quote in 2013, dropped it into my Evernote file and saved it until today
to share it with you, because it's kind of fun, now, since it is five years after he said that quote.
And by the way, if you want to read that whole article, it was an interview with him.
It's at TheNextWeb.com.
If you just google "thenextweb" [all one word], "Reed Hastings," "2013" you'll see the article
I'm talking about entitled, Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned
in his business career.
But that was published just about five years ago this month, and so Reed was thinking about
what Netflix is today when he said that.
And if you think back to where Netflix was in 2013, it was definitely on a comeback.
It was already a winner and a great winner from the previous decade.
But do you remember Qwikster in 2011 and how badly Netflix got thrown for a loop?
A self-inflicted wound, really, by in part CEO Reed Hastings who acknowledged his mistakes
at the time and since has described it as just one bad chapter in Netflix's history.
But I love the quotation not just because this has been one of the best stocks you could
have owned over the last five years; but of course I love it as a fellow entrepreneur
and I know many of you are entrepreneurs listening, as well.
And so don'tcha love it?
We see all the imperfections -- we should anyway -- in the things, the widgets that we're creating.
The products and the services.
We see all the things we should that aren't [with Reed Hastings] working.
At the office we're the ones that say, "We suck!" I certainly think you should be.
You don't want to say it too loud and, as he said, you don't want to say it out of context.
If you say it all the time somebody will start quoting you from The Wall Street Journal or
Fortune magazine and all of a sudden you'll generate
a headline about how much your company sucks, in this case.
But I think the key is that you're always looking to improve -- and especially if you're
a visionary like Reed Hastings, or like some Motley Fools I know, or like you --
because I bet I'm speaking to some visionaries out there, then you're seeing.
You know what you're trying to become, and so you're guided by a sense of what needs to be fixed.
And a restlessness, if you will.
A desire to get there and to be that thing years from now that you will be.
And now we can look backwards five years after Reed said that this month and see how Netflix
is kind of king of the world these days.
I'm a regular listener of many Motley Fool podcasts, and I think a recent Market Foolery
was entitled something like, Netflix, [Destroyer] of Worlds within the last week.
You can hear that podcast from our Market Foolery team,
but that is kind of how Netflix is acting these days.
And I like to think, before we move to Quotation No. 4, that Reed Hastings still thinks the
exact same thing today. Don't you think Reed might still say the exact same thing?
That here in 2018 he sees all the imperfections in Netflix.
He sees all the things that aren't working at the office, and he's still the one saying, "We suck!"
I'd like to think that he is and I'm going to be really interested in seeing what Netflix
becomes over the next five years.
So yes, Great Quotation No. 3; this one's for the entrepreneurs, whether you are one
or just have one in spirit inside you. It's for all of us entrepreneurs.
Constant improvement and always striving toward the vision that you see,
whether it's your own company or a company that you work for; always looking to get better.
And it's always inspiring to see people say that and then actually do it for all of us.
It's even more inspiring when you own shares of the companies that go on to do that as
they win, and I know I'm speaking to many fellow Netflix shareholders.
Great Quotation No. 4: And I'm going back to one of my favorite business authors.
He's really an author as much, I should say, on leadership and that's Warren Bennis.
In fact, I featured Warren Bennis, one of his quotes, in my last Great Quotes, Volume VIII in May of 2018.
Back then it was, "People are not interchangeable," Bennis wrote, "and unique, gifted talent needs
to be well-managed." That's another good thought for entrepreneurs.
If you have some odd, idiosyncratically brilliant, and helpful person, recognize their uniqueness.
Really, we're all unique and the most gifted leaders will recognize their gifted talents
and well manage them. That was Bennis then. This is Bennis now.
Same book: On Becoming a Leader. Here's what I wanted to share with you this week.
"What determines the level of satisfaction in post-middle-aged men is the degree to which
they acted upon their youthful dreams."
"What determines the level of satisfaction in post-middle aged men -- I suspect it's
not just true of post-middle-aged men -- is the degree to which they acted upon their youthful dreams."
Now the reason that Bennis said that is because in the book he's talking about a study,
so he's reflecting on a study that was done.
But I suspect it's true of women as well as men, and I suspect it's true of people of all ages.
Now, to act on your youthful dreams you probably need to be a little older than a youth but
that might be true of you if you're 28 or 32 right now, just as well as if you're 48 or 62.
I think it's a reminder to all of us that we should think about what really drives us
and motivates us in life, and often they're visions that we had or desires we had as young people.
And to the extent that you have acted on that for better or for worse -- to the extent that
you pursued that dream -- you're much more likely, I think, to be a happy listener of
this podcast this week than if you did not.
And in fact, Bennis goes on in the very next sentence of the book to say, "It's not so much
whether they were successful in achieving their dreams as the honest pursuit of them."
So I guess Quotation No. 4 is just here to challenge you; to invite you to ask that question of yourself.
Maybe pick up an old photograph back before there were computers and digital photographs.
Maybe you have a photograph of yourself, as a younger person, printed out in some shoebox somewhere.
A Kodachrome special.
Look yourself in the eye and remember what you were dreaming about in that picture
and then I ask you to ask yourself whether you have done it. Have you acted on it?
And the good news is whatever age you are as you hear me this week, you have an opportunity
to act on those things if they're good things to act on starting tomorrow.
There's no reason, I don't think, other than some of the natural constraints we might have,
like the job that you're trying to hold down, or you only have three vacation days left in 2018.
I realize there are natural constraints.
But really what I'm speaking to, here, are the constraints that we often throw up in our own paths.
Not somebody else's rules but, in fact, how we think about ourselves and how we often limit ourselves.
One of my favorite quotations [in fact I included this in our May Great Quotations, Volume VIII
podcast as well] is, "Don't be limited by other people's limited imaginations."
So sometimes we create a box around ourselves based on what other people tell us about ourselves.
But bad news -- sometimes we even just do it to ourselves.
So I'm here with Great Quotation No. 4 to prick you a bit.
To poke at you and encourage you to do that for yourself and realize that even if it doesn't
work out you'll probably, post-middle-age, feel more satisfaction that you've tried.
Or, as my friend Jeff Bezos has said, he calls it the "regret minimization framework."
Bezos says, "When you're 80 years old, look back to the decisions that you're making now
and try to minimize the regret that you're going to feel at the age of 80."
And I realize some of my listeners are over 80, so you're probably knowingly nodding along
with me and thinking about when you're 90 or 95; looking back to today and trying to
make good decisions.
But sometimes that means you should do something that you haven't been doing.
Other times it means you should not do something.
I'll leave it up to you to decide when you should or shouldn't act on youthful dreams.
But with Jeff Bezos and Warren Bennis, I encourage you to examine from the future your present
self and think about what's going to lead to your greatest satisfaction because we here,
at The Motley Fool, as I've mentioned before, are here to help make you smarter, happier,
and richer; and this one is kind of about the happy.
And speaking of happy, I'm going to happily close, here, with one of my favorite quotations
for Great Quotation No. 5.
I should mention, by the way, even though I've kind of hailed back to a few previous
podcasts when I used quotes; every one of these Great Quotes, Volume X podcasts has
a unique set of around five quotations, so I'm never duplicating.
Every one of them I hope will stand on their own.
So yes, I've saved one of my favorite quotations until now to end with this week's podcast
and it's from Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel. How can you not?
One of the most quotable people of my lifetime. How can you not love Dr. Seuss?
And this one comes from McElligot's Pool.
It was pointed out to me by one of our Motley Fool members some years ago.
He said, "Have you ever read McElligot's Pool?" and I said, "No, I've not."
I've read a lot of the others -- Green Eggs and Ham -- of course.
I'm not really a big fan of Oh, The Places You'll Go, by the way.
I think a lot of people dearly, deeply love Oh, The Places You'll Go, but for me
it's just a little threadbare. It meanders on and on.
You'll go here and you'll go there and it's not as exciting to me.
I realize for some people it's a meaningful graduation gift that they receive or give,
so I definitely don't want to rain on anybody's parade that's a "Seussian" parade,
but I'm going to join the parade, here, and say beyond the big, popular books, I'm going to encourage you
to take a look at McElligot's Pool, which starts this way, and here's Great Quotation No. 5:
Great Quotation No. 5: "Young man," laughed the farmer, "you must be a fool!
You'll never catch fish In McElligot's Pool."
And why is that one of my favorite quotations from Dr. Seuss? Well, for two reasons.
The first is, of course, it's a "fool" quote. It's there in my Fool and Folly quotations file on Evernote.
This is one of my favorite "fool" quotes because, indeed, the farmer. Laughing.
I take that to be anybody who thinks you can't succeed in life.
And for us, especially here at Fool HQ, we're surrounded by academia and a lot of people
who think that you could never beat the stock market averages.
You shouldn't bother fishing in that pool.
You must be a fool because you're never going to catch winning stocks or beat the market
in McElligot's Pool. So of course, the farmer laughing even motivates me.
To think that the farmer was there with the little kid, laughing at the kid. Guess what?
No spoilers, but you can imagine that maybe the kid does catch fish in the Dr. Seuss story, McElligot's Pool.
That's the way it starts. "Young man," laughed the farmer, "you must be a fool!
You'll never catch fish In McElligot's Pool." So reason No. 1 I love this quote is that it's a great fool quote.
It stands toe-to-toe with any Shakespearean fool quote, at least in my head.
But reason No. 2 is that it's a reminder for all of us [and this kind of keys to my point
with Quotation No. 4], that the most satisfying wins we're going to have in life often happen
when other people thought we couldn't do it. And I know a lot of you recognize that in your own lives.
If you think about your peak moments, often it was that you were being doubted.
People told you, you couldn't do it.
And again, for us here at The Fool, we so strongly believe in the greatness of investing;
the power of investing for you in your life and for our world at large. You're right.
I'm going to brand myself right here a conscious capitalist.
Yes, I don't really like socialism, for example.
There are aspects of socialism that I think are healthy and can be good, but anybody who
tells me that business isn't great or picking great businesses won't succeed runs contrary
to all of my life's experience and what I stand for, what our company stands for,
and what we're here to help you with every week to think better about and act better about.
So when people tell you that you're a "fool" because of what you're about to do with your
money or your business...
Of course, if the farmer is very wise and a mentor of yours, you might want to listen hard,
and lean in, and feel challenged by that; but often if it's just a farmer standing near a pool...
I mean, it's not even like a fisherman was saying that to the kid [it was just a farmer],
then I do encourage you to consider taking that risk and not be a post-middle-age person with regrets.
So there's a little bit of Dr. Seuss to close.
And, in fact, one day I think I'm going to try to write one more investment book.
We've written a lot in the past, but I feel like I have one more book in me.
I've been saving quotes and thoughts, and observations about the stock market and if
I ever do get around to finally writing that book, I'm pretty sure this will be an epigraph for that book.
Might be the frontispiece.
Might be right up front or might be there for a chapter, but I've subsequently found
McElligot's Pool subsequent to writing some of our past books, so this is new material for me,
even though it's old material to many Seuss fans. Well, there you have it.
Rule Breaker Investing, the podcast, the week of October 24th.
Next week we're going to have -- yup! -- it's the final Wednesday of the month, so it's time for Mailbag.
I did mention earlier you could write us RBI@Fool.com and I specifically asked earlier for you to
direct any "get started investing" questions to that e-mail address.
That's what we'll be doing in two weeks.
But I also want to encourage you, if you have any thoughts about this podcast,
about The League of Extraordinary Stock Pickers
or some of my conclusions about 200 Consecutive Monthly Stock Picks
made by my brother and made by me in Motley Fool Stock Advisor; anything
we talked about this month always fair game for the Rule Breaker Investing Mailbag.
So that's what's coming your way next week. In the meantime, have a great week! Fool on!
As always, people on this program may have interest in the stocks they talk about,
and The Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against, so don't buy or sell stocks
based solely on what you hear. Learn more about Rule Breaker Investing at RBI.Fool.com.
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Tetris Effect PS4 Review | 10 Hours Later | Backlog Battle - Duration: 8:29.
What's up everyone?
Alex here!
I love games that are easy to learn but difficult to master!
Tetris is the epitome of that idea, and it's probably why I've been satisfied with just
owning one version of Tetris, which is the one packed with the original Gameboy.
There have been plenty of different flavors of Tetris that have been released over the
years, but this latest one by Tetsuya Mizuguchi - the creator of Lumines and Rez Infinite
- happened to catch my attention (as well as 1.7 million other people) when it was first
announced.
What makes it so special?
Sit back, relax, and take a synesthetic journey through Tetris Effect, in my review,
Hours Later!
Tetris Effect's namesake is based on a scientific study showing that by spending a lot of time
and focus playing Tetris that it'll start influencing your thought patterns, mental
processes, and even dreams.
While mostly common in people who have played the game for prolonged periods of time, Tetris
Effect - the game - attempts to invoke this feeling by pairing the gameplay with a variety
of different visuals and soundscapes, even going so far as to pair each controller input
with melodic sound effects that makes you feel like you're helping create the soundtrack
playing in the background.
The main mode of Tetris Effect is Journey.
In most Tetris games, the main modes start you off on a specific level, which controls
the drop speed of the blocks.
Over time, the drop speed increases until finally, it's Game Over.
Journey breaks away from this norm by having a progression that is broken down into several
different sequences, each comprised of 3-5 different Areas.
Each Area is accompanied by its own visuals and soundtrack, with different variants to
the area's theme.
Each variant has different drop speeds, which match the visuals and the tempo of the soundtrack
being played.
This means, for instance, that you can go from a drop speed of 4 to a drop speed of
9 then back down to 6 all in one Area!
Upon completion of the last variant, you will be whisked away to the next Area until you
complete the entire sequence.
Having the main mode structured this way not only puts an interesting spin in an otherwise
familiar gameplay loop, but also adds a sense of anticipation, making you want to keep playing
just to see what the next areas look, sound, and play like.
The sequence of Areas in Journey also seem to be curated well and invoke different kinds
of emotions, which is something that I never thought I'd say about a Tetris game!
As I played through the mode, I couldn't help but recall Spectrum Holobyte's version
of Tetris, which changed the game's backgrounds as you progressed through each level.
The idea is similar, but the evocative visuals, the wonderful soundtrack, and the small quirk
of matching the drop speed with the tempo of the songs give the mode an identity that
sets it apart from other versions of Tetris.
In addition to implementing the now requisite "Hold" block function, Tetris Effect introduces
a new mechanic called Zone.
Completing lines fills up the Zone meter and pressing L2 or R2 activates it.
Being in the Zone will stop any blocks from falling, allowing new players to buy some
time to figure out a layout strategy.
Completing lines while in the Zone will move them to the bottom of the board, banking them
temporarily until Zone runs out.
Any lines completed will be counted as though you cleared them all at the same time, which
allows veterans to obtain some high scoring line clears, like the Perfectris which you
can obtain by clearing 18 lines.
It's unfortunate then that Zone is only available during Journey: it's an interesting
mechanic that I would've loved to see available in other modes!
Complimenting Journey are the Effect Modes.
There are four types of Effect Modes: Classic, Relax, Focus, and Adventurous.
Classic allows you to play Tetris just like you've done before, whether it's to clear
150 lines, or even to play Tetris in the master game speeds.
Relax is Tetris but without the consequence of failure.
There's Relax playlists that tie together several similarly themed Areas into one sequence.
Focus are a series of challenges that require you to clear lines using the provided blocks
in a limited amount of time.
And finally, Adventurous is a series of challenges that can't be categorized under the other
Effect Modes.
Some of these modes allow you to customize your experience, from making a mode Endless,
to even determining what song plays in the background.
Ultimately, each Effect Mode is supposed to fit what mood you're in, though I'll readily
admit that I'll always be anxious every time I see a block start to fall from the
top of the board.
Consequence or not, that ain't relaxing to me!
While the lack of head to head multiplayer might disappoint some fans, there are extensive
leaderboards that are accessible in both modes.
The leaderboards bring back the importance of scoring higher points.
And while I'll personally miss the head to head multiplayer, I'm certainly paying
more attention to my score this time around, as there are aspects of Tetris - such as back
to back line clears - that I've never paid attention to before.
And finally, Weekend Ritual events occur every weekend.
Weekend Rituals are 24-hour community events that prompt you to play certain Effect Modes
to build up a cumulative community score to a certain amount.
Once the requirements are met for the event, you will receive an avatar commemorating your
participation in said Weekend Ritual event.
You'll gain a variety of avatars by completing the objectives in Effect Modes and completing
certain milestones in Journey.
You also gain experience points, which lead you to obtain more levels, that will unlock
more avatars.
For the most part, the leveling system is just there to help you get avatars and to
get certain Trophies.
The accompanying visuals and soundscapes in Tetris Effect are of exceptional quality,
something that fans of Lumines and Rez Infinite will highly appreciate.
The environments can be abstract, surreal, and some can be evocative of real life locations.
Playing alongside the visuals is an original soundtrack created by the developers themselves,
which is comprised of multiple genres.
One of my personal favorites happen to be set in a cityscape, with each input playing
a note on a piano in a jazz inspired staccato.
Sometimes, the visuals might get too distracting for serious players, so there's options
to set the blocks to display in a specific color and for the board to not be transparent.
There's even options to allow the display of more than one block in the Next block window,
should you wish.
Tetris Effect also supports VR, and while the gameplay shown doesn't seem like much,
there's a considerable amount of depth that can be seen when viewed on the headset itself.
Also, the visual effects are a lot more pronounced, and the soundtrack thumping on your headphones
just amplifies the VR experience even further.
The game also supports 4K, though given that I've yet to obtain a 4K TV, I was not able
to try this out.
All in all, there's plenty of ways to modify Tetris Effect to suit your play style and
your play needs, ultimately resulting in a package that feels substantial.
For me, Tetris Effect's environments, songs, modes, and challenges make the game feel like
it's a complete suite that complement each other really well, and the unique experience
that Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his team have crafted easily stands out as the one of most beautiful
renditions of Tetris to date.
With so many ways to play - including 4K and VR - you'd be hard pressed to find a Tetris
game that can offer this much, despite the absence of a requisite head to head mode.
And as esoteric as many have described this game, Tetris Effect does deliver on its promises,
and is a convincing argument for the game's continued presence alongside modern video games.
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8 Exercise Mistakes that Hold You Back from Results|HFE♪ - Duration: 7:35.
8 Exercise Mistakes that Hold You Back from Results
The problem with working out improperly isn't not getting the results that we want, but rather, we could be hurting ourselves and suffer from different injuries depending on the case.
Sometimes when we exercise, we're looking for results that are impossible simply because we're doing them wrong.
If you can stop making these exercise mistakes, you'll surely be able to get the best results.
The bridge and your waist If we're going to do this exercise, we have to know that if you arch your back while doing the bridge, you're not doing it right.
It's bad for your back because the weight doesn't fall on your butt, but rather, on your lower back.
The correct way to do this exercise would be to keep your knees parallel to the ground.
In order to do that, you need to lift your waist upwards and keep your torso in line with your waist.
Don't forget to tighten your butt and abdomen muscles as much as you can when you're at the highest point of the bridge.
Lunges Be very careful with this exercise because you could be doing it completely wrong.
If your torso is leaning forward and your knees are bent at a sharp angle, you're risking an injury.
By positioning yourself as described, you're putting too much weight on your back and knees.
The correct way to do the exercise is by keeping your back straight and not lifting your hips.
Remember to bend your knees at a 90º angle.
Planking Watch out with this exercise because it can also end up being dangerous.
If your back doesn't stay straight while you're planking, the exercises loses its effectiveness.
In order to plank properly, you need to protect your body from possible injuries by keeping a straight line all the way from your feet to your head.
Bend your arms at a 90º angle and keep your head up when you're doing this exercise.
Squatting with weights Squatting with weights is another exercise option.
You have to be careful about doing these squats because if you're squatting in a way that your knees surpass your feet, your back will arch and the weight will rest on your neck, risking its injury.
The right way to do this exercise is by lining up the weight at the middle of your feet.
After, you have to concave your back and keep your ankles firmly on the ground.
Then, squat.
Holding weights correctly Be extremely careful with how you hold weights.
When the weight rests on your neck, it's dangerous.
The correct way to hold it is by pushing your elbows outwards and bringing the shoulder blades together.
By moving this way, you'll be able to arch your back and tighten forcing it.
Don't forget that the weight should be at the lowest possible level.
Squatting with dumbbells Doing squats with dumbbells is one of the most common exercises, but you have to be careful because if you do them pushing your shoulders forwards, you're creating too much pressure and could hurt yourself.
The right way to do squats is by pushing your shoulders back and bringing your shoulder blades together.
Don't forget to keep your back straight, only curving your lower back slightly.
Squat in a way so that your hips stay parallel to to floor and you're all set.
Lifting weights Lifting weights is another common exercise and it's also one of the exercises with which we should be most careful.
The position of your legs and arms here is extremely important.
If your limbs are angled, you could fall and injure your tendons.
TO get in the correct position, bend your legs at your knees, bring your chest forward, curve your lower back outwards and push your hips out backwards.
Your legs and arms should be perpendicular to the floor.
Using platforms Choosing to do exercises that require you to get up onto a platform also requires some precaution.
While doing these kinds of exercises, we could set ourselves up the wrong way and stand too far from the platform.
By standing too far away, we could be putting too much weight on our knees instead of our leg muscles.
The correct way to do exercise is by standing straight, with your shoulder blades together, slightly bending your back and approaching the platform or bench.
Your knees should be in line with your feet.
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