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You have an incredible super power you don't even know you
have.
Check this out, I'm gonna play 2 different videos
of me saying 2 different things at the same time.
The first time you watch it, focus on this video and try to understand it as much as
possible.
Once your done with that, rewatch the clips again and try to focus on the other video.
Even though they're both played at the same time, if you focus on one video, I bet you'll
be able to hear it clearly.
If you have headphones, put em on now, because it'll make things a bit easier, but you
can also do this without headphones.
Here we go.
Woah.
I really hope that worked for you because it did for me and that was amazing.
Even though I was watching 2 different videos that, together, sound like jumbled nonsense,
if I focus on one, I'm able to actually understand that video.
This is the super power you didn't know you had: the cocktail party effect.
Hey guys, I'm here, let's get technical.
I went to VidCon last week, and I had a phenomenal time.
I met and talked with tons of amazing and fascinating people, but, in the middle of
one conversation I had with some people amidst a big and noisy conference room, I kinda lost
focus and just started looking around.
I know right?
I'm great at this.
And in that moment when I let my attention wander, I realized how insanely loud the room was.
Nothing against the organizers of that particular event, of course, there were just a lot of
people in the room.
And when I took in all the sounds, the voices of the people I was talking to could barely
be heard.
But when I snapped out of it and focused back in on the conversation I was having, I could
hear them just fine.
The cocktail party effect is your mind's ability to do just that; to filter out all
of the other sounds in a noisy environment and focus in on the discussion you're having.
If you're an absolute mad lad, you might even be able to use the cocktail party effect
to distinguish between three voices at the same time.
If you wanna know for sure what I was saying in each of those clips, I'll reveal at the
end of the video.
The effect was first discovered in 1953 by Colin Cherry when he was in a bit of a predicament,
and not just any old predicament.
As far as predicaments go, this predicament was a big predicament.
Predicament no longer sounds like a word.
See, Cherry was an air-traffic controller, but he wasn't late for work allowing him
to cut a line at a hot dog stand (I really hope you get that reference), but, when he
was controlling air traffic, all of the voices from all of the different pilots coming out
of the loudspeaker was made each of them inaudible.
Thus, he decided to study human attention and the cocktail party effect, and published
his findings in this paper.
You may have noticed each voice played out of a different side of your speaker or headphones,
as to emulate the voices coming from different positions and angles.
When there were two people talking, it shoulda seemed like the voices came from here and
here, and when there were three people talking, it shoulda seemed like the voices came from
here, here, and here.
But you know who's not here? Waluigi.
This is the stuff I say in-between takes
This is done so the audio more closely resembles real world scenarios.
And this makes sense, right?
When you're at an actual cocktail party, or any loud event, for that matter, you have
noise coming at you from all angles, not just directly in front
of you.
This is, of course, the standard hand motion to
sound coming at you; it's common knowledge.
Not to mention, having audio come at you from all slides actually makes a pretty big difference
when it comes to you trying to decipher it.
When he did his initial study on the topic in 1953, Cherry found that it was quite hard
for participants to distinguish between the two voices when they were both coming from
head on, yet, when he split them up, it was much easier.
We'll come back to that later.
While the cocktail party effect seems quite easy (after all, we do it all the time without
even thinking about it), it's actually an incredibly complex mechanism, and to truly
understand it, we have to understand 3 factors: speech, masking, and attention.
First, speech.
While human speech arguably isn't the most ideal or perfect form of acoustic communication,
it's actually pretty good for what it is.
To understand why, we first have to understand phonemes.
Phonemes are the different fundamental sounds.
They're made of 1-4 letters, and there are 44 of them in the English language.
For example, if I were to pick a random phrase, say, "Me me big boy," we could break it
apart, and see how many phonemes are in it.
Me has 2 phonemes, muh, ee.
Big has 3: buh, ieh, guh.
And boy has 2: buh oy.
You know this, this is what phonics is based on *you know this matter of factly sorta way*
There are 4 ways phonemes are beneficial, as outlined in this 2015 paper by Adelbert
Bronkhorst.
Phonemes are pretty uniform across different people and different voices, they make good
use of the space allocated in your head to produce them,
they're resistant to, but not completely immune from masking by background noise, and
finally, and more of an aspect of speech itself, the information is redundant, which means,
if you mishear a couple parts, your brain can fill 'em in.
The last two things on that list are what make the cocktail party effect possible.
Since sound waves are fairly concentrated in one region, it'll tend to reign supreme
and be hearable over background noises, and between redundancies in sound and redundancies
in English sentence structure, it's fine to miss a couple phonemes and still understand
the person you're talking to.
Sidenote: we can actually track the rate of recovery of lost information if a listener
misses a phoneme as a result of a background noise.
It tends to be 50% in real word and 20% if it's just a nonsense word.
The percentage of recovery rises to 70-90% if the sentence is short and/or common.
Second, masking.
Remember when I said we'd get back to hearing the voices from different sides of the speaker?
Well, now's that time.
Just because someone is talking to you on your right side, that doesn't mean the sound
of their voice only goes into your right year; some of it also reaches your left.
This means that, regardless of how hard you try, the sounds of the different voices are
gonna mix a bit, and this was accounted for in the earlier simulation.
The process of different sounds (in this case, voices) interfering with each other is known
as masking, or, more specifically, energetic masking, and the process of trying to seperate
those sounds is known as unmasking.
There are a variety of factors your brain takes into account when identifying a certain
voice and then unmasking it from the others, those primarily being the characteristics
of the voice and where it's coming from, but other minor factors include stuff like
timbre, linguistic variability, and other things.
Ok, so we know how speech works, and how our brain separates different voices, so the last
piece left in our puzzle is FOCUSING on the one voice.
Third, attention.
This is an interesting one, because attention has changed a lot over the years.
So gather round and make sure you pay... your respects as we discuss different theories
about how attention works.
Cherry noticed in his experiments that participants, even while they were focusing on the voice
over here, they could still, to an extent, understand and process information said by
this person.
More specifically, they could understand when their own name was said, or when the gender
or pitch of the person over here talking changed.
Out of this knowledge, two different theories rose: the early selection theory and late
selection theory.
The early-selection theory was proposed by psychologist Donald Broadbent in 1958, and
it proclaimed that very little information and meaning is actually processed from the
other conversation preattentively, except for information that really stands out to
us, like our name, a gender switch, et cetera, and the late-selection theory was proposed
by psychologist Diana Deutsch in 1963, and it proclaimed that information and meaning
is processed up to a semantic level, and if your brain deems it unimportant, it doesn't
go into working memory, but if it does deem it important, *snaps* we're in business
like a cat at 3am.
>> VIDEO OF GUS sliding through that door.
In 1964, psychologist Anne Treisman proposed something of a mid-point between the two models
dubbed the attenuation theory.
This theory proposed that information and meaning is indeed processed, like the late-selection
theory, but the resources your brain devotes to it are minimal, and, thus, it takes much
longer to process the information.
Finally, in 1973, psychologist and author Daniel Kahneman proposed something completely
different in his book Attention and Effort.
He suggested that attention works less like where we choose what to pay attention to and
more like something with a capacity, where instead of "I'm going to pay all of my
attention to this and none to this," it really works like "this will take up most
of my attention capacity, leaving only a little bit left for this."
So, which of these hypotheses are correct?
We don't really know, and that's because any study concocted to test these theories
tends to suffer two fundamental problems.
First, shifts in attention are poorly controlled, and, thus, hard to monitor.
Second, when we look at this through the metaphor of a "filter," it implies the sensitivity
can be controlled as a relationship to an independent variable.
However, we have no idea what this independent variable is, or how it can be used to control
the sensitivity of this "filter."
So, in conclusion, the cocktail party effect, or the ability to selectively listen to one
person out of a sea of noise, works because human speech allows for it, your brain can
separate (or unmask) the noise you want to listen to out of all the others, and you can
continue to pay attention to the person your talking to, as well as even interpret some
data about the people you're not.
If, like me, you really like this sorta field of psychology (the topic of how your brain
processes information), I strongly recommend the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel
Kahneman, who we mentioned earlier.
I'm listening through it right now and it is simply mind blowing, I love it so much.
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yo what's gonna King Drippy back to you with another video. T oday's video we are
getting back into the weird side of YouTube my friend. last week I did do
another weird video reaction if you want to check that out
link is above and the link is in the description below. That video was weird
it was like some poodle exercise video you know I'm saying it was it was a
crazy video if you want to go see that and please please please please go in
the description to watch that video but without further ado let's get into this
weirdness bruh. Why does he look so angry.
brah every thought that
do-do-do-do-do-do
do-do-do-do-do do-do-do-do-do okay
me me
squish squish no I'm gonna try that one day I never really tried the pottery
vibe and I'm saying I want to go to a class you know I'm saying and do a
little the little the little basis you know I'm saying
who's that
this was a big like a mark okay that's weird
the hell is that first of all what is down the floor all right
and then 100 Homer Simpson Homer Simpson
all right I can't see this there's a film with a potato is that is that's the
motor is here this is so loud and my I was shocked I don't know I won't have to
hear it it's so loud it's so loud in my ear right now and I can't even turn it
down
I check in no I can't
was that
oh he's about to bust his ass on all that liquid stuff he busted
oh so one point Eddie Eddie has this four and a half minute opera Aria
well this is nice melted like
why did she get up like that go I go home I go back why did she get up like
that so dramatic she's like let me get up and say this hold up so she's like
let me get up in the camera and and make dramatic I'm not stirred
then chuck-e-cheese like on steroids it looks like turkey cheese
when you face like that hey oh oh it says get it get it get it oh oh oh
some demonic satanic ritual
I seen his video before
stick hey hey hey you huh I'm very hungry so yeah all right I'm very very
hungry don't serve that's ridiculous no I don't want that hungry Oh
okay that's the end of this video that is all the time we have today hope you
enjoyed this video of these words compilation videos now I didn't think
that these videos was that weird you know I'm saying it was kind of weird and
freaky but I've seen worse I think the last video which is gonna pop up on the
screen right now teen is weirder than these videos right here so if you want
to go check that video well make sure to go check that video I'll give this video
a big thumbs up if you want to if you want to dislike it that's like it if you
I'm saying but thank you for watching I will see y'all in the next video
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RUSSIANS REACT TO MEXICAN MUSIC | Juan Gabriel, Natalia Lafourcade - Ya No Vivo Por Vivir | REACTION - Duration: 7:31.
Hello Mexico -Salute Mexico
Now we are finally gonna react to Juan Gabriel and Natalia Lafourcade
The song "Ya No Vivo Por Vivir"
It means "I'm no longer living". He's alive but he's not living
Not living his life
He's existing
Do you remember Juan Gabriel?
People still watch our old reaction to him, it gets many views
That video has almost 800,000 views
You remember?
Of course! I can never forget him!
Awesome
Unfortunately, he died a few years ago
This is his song with Natalia Lafourcade. We reacred to her twice
Let's start
I think it's 2012-2013
They have an orchestra
It's a video from the studio
She has a beautiful voice
Sophisticated voice
They filmed the process of recording
Beautiful
Their voices sound very good together
They are having fun
Very positive atmosphere
Yes, it doesn't sound like "I am no longer living"
They are smiling
He's her teacher
He's teaching her
He has a lot of experience
Very beautiful melody
Maybe they are like father and daughter?
They look alike -Not at all
I think they have similar face features
He's probably her mentor -Maybe
See, he's showing her how to do things
She has a really clean voice -And he too
They are singing very beautifully
It's probably just rehearsals
And they decided to record it for the video
That's her solo
They complement each other
Now he's singing solo
They really look like a teacher and a student
He has a perfect smile
It seems like in Mexico only beautiful people sing
Their women are really awesome. All their female singers are beautiful
Every one of them is gorgeous
And the male singers look brutal
I wouldn't say that
This man looks manly
I remember everyone was discussing when I called him the Mexican Michael Jackson
Who? -Him
There were many articles about it in Mexico
Yes, we see him like that in Russia
It's probably the end
Yeah, that's the end
Awww, what a gallant man
Well done. They did a great job
They thanked each other... Amazing melody
My mom liked it -Yes, I liked it
Their voices complement each other so well
Their voices sound so great. I liked the girl a lot
She has a very clean voice
But you've heard her before
I don't remember her
We've watched 2 videos with her already
Maybe she was singing differently
Or maybe her voice sounded so good just because of the man's voice
We had a female singer with a similar clean voice - Lyudmila Senchina
We had a female singer in Russia... she died recently
Lyudmila Senchina. If you're interested, you can search for her songs
Very beautiful voice... amazing voice
I recommend you to listen to her
Yeah, we liked this song, it's very good
Great song
And they sound very good together
Teacher and his student
Or a mentor
The melody is very beautiful
I like melodies that make you feel tenderness
When there are no sudden changes, just pure tenderness
Awesome
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What The Biggest Fans Don't Even Know About Swamp Thing - Duration: 6:29.
Swamp Thing!
He is amazing!
And since his debut in 1974, he's been one of the most fascinating characters in the
entire DC Comics lineup.
From his origins as a straightforward man-turned-monster, to his strange luck on the screen, here's
what you might not know about DC's resident muck monster.
Convergent evolution
While he would definitely go on to become the most famous, Swamp Thing is by no means
the first swamp monster in comics.
In fact, he's not even the first one created in the early '70s at one of the major superhero
publishers.
That honor in particular goes to Marvel's Man-Thing, created by Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway,
and Gray Morrow in the pages of Savage Tales #1.
In that story, Dr. Ted Sallis is working in the swamp on a formula meant to give people
super-powers when he's attacked by criminals and gets exposed to it himself, plunging into
the swamp and emerging as...
Man-Thing!
It was only months later that Len Wein and Berni Wrightson introduced their new swamp
monster in the pages of House of Secrets #92.
In that story, Dr. Alex Olsen, later changed to Alec Holland, is working in the swamp on
a formula meant to give people super-powers when he's attacked by criminals and gets exposed
to it himself, plunging into the swamp and emerging as ... Swamp Thing!
did I just get deja vu...
Needless to say, Conway noticed the similarities between Man Thing and Swamp Thing, which were
especially apparent since he and Wein actually roommates in New York at the time.
The Green
In 1986, Swamp Thing became something more than just a monster.
Instead, he was the latest in a long line of plant elementals who were connected to
what was called the Green a mystical field encompassing all of Earth's plant life.
From there, Swamp Thing was connected to other plant monsters: DC characters like the Floronic
Man, Black Orchid, Solomon Grundy, and even Poison Ivy were added to that connection,
but it went beyond just their pages.
Another elemental that we get an explicit backstory for shares a suspiciously similar
origin with a golden age swamp monster called the Heap, and a reference to the repeated
pattern of origin stories is pretty easy to read as an acknowledgement of Man-Thing, too.
The Red, the Clear, and the Rot
Connecting Swamp Thing to the Green gave DC an idea that's been extended to a whole
lot of other characters, complete with their own rainbow of colors.
Animal Man had a head start.
The idea behind this forgotten hero had always been that he could access the abilities of
animals by tapping into a "morphogenetic field," which later became known as The Red.
It didn't stop there, either.
Aquaman's ability to talk to fish was explained as the ability to tap into the watery force
called the Clear, and the same story that tied Animal Man to the Red also introduced
the death force, known as the Rot, which was pretty much bad news for everyone.
Love in the time of dendrophilia
In the beginning, "Alec Holland" was mourning both his own status as an undead muck monster
and the death of his wife, Linda, who perished during his fiery origin.
Meanwhile, the human perspective on his adventures fell to Abigail Arcane niece of the depraved
supervillain Anton Arcane and her boyfriend Matt Cable.
Unfortunately for her, Matt was killed, and in one of the most horrifying moments of the
series, it was revealed that Anton had been possessing Matt's body without Abby knowing.
Once that was taken care of and Anton was sent straight to hell, the way was clear for
Swamp Thing and Abby to fall in love with each other.
This sparked one of DC's most enduring romances which is kind of surprising considering that
one of the lovers in question was a shambling monster made of trees.
He beat Batman
You might find this hard to believe, but it turns out that in some states, it's actually
illegal to… um… how should we say this… wait.
I got this - "bump uglies" with a swamp monster... get it?
Ugly.
Monster.
Anyway…
When the locals discovered that Abby Arcane was engaging in dendrophilia, she was arrested,
and Swamp Thing wasn't happy.
He launched an all out attack on the city that was holding her… a little place called
Gotham.
Needless to say, Batman didn't appreciate having his hometown turned into a jungle.
While he did his level best to fight the Swamp Thing off, he found out that an Avatar of
the Green isn't as easy to take down as, say, the Riddler.
Instead, Swampy just kept coming back bigger and tougher, until Batman finally saw his
point.
The Dark Knight figured that if you're going to arrest non-human heroes for having romantic
relationships with human women, you're eventually going to have to try slapping handcuffs on
Lois Lane and Superman.
Reefer madness
Sometimes, it can pay to have a friend with absolute mastery over plants.
In Hellblazer #63, he got an invite to John Constantine's 40th birthday party, which came
as a surprise since the characters had never exactly been pals.
Even so, Swamp Thing gave Constantine a birthday present by rapidly growing a single marijuana
leaf into enough for everyone.
"Communing with the Green" indeed.
Swamp to the Future
When Rick Veitch took over Swamp Thing in 1987, he launched one of the most memorable
stories on the book ever: a time-travel epic that saw Swamp Thing hurled back through the
ages, encountering heroes and villains from throughout DC Comics history.
And then he abruptly left the book in mid-story.
The reason for was no secret, and was even the topic of discussion in the book's letters
pages for several months: DC asked Veitch at the last minute to change the end of his storyline,
and he refused.
The reason?
Rick Veitch's original plan had been for Swamp Thing's next stop to land him in the Roman
Empire circa 33 AD, where he'd meet an obscure character called Golden Gladiator.
Oh, and he was also going to team up with Jesus.
Only a few years later, it's unlikely that this story would've been a problem.
By 1995, DC's Vertigo imprint was publishing Preacher, a book that made "Swamp Thing meets
Jesus" look like a Sunday School lesson.
At the time, though, Swamp Thing was still firmly set in the DC Universe.
To this day, his version of Swamp Thing #88 remains unpublished.
Swamp Thing conquers the screen... sort of
With critically acclaimed stories and a dedicated fan base, it makes sense that Warner Bros.
would bring Swamp Thing to the big screen.
The first attempt came in 1982 from Wes Craven, the legendary horror director who went on
to direct A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream.
It stuck to Wein and Wrightson's origin story, pitting Alec Holland against Anton Arcane,
with Adrienne Barbeau as a love interest.
It wasn't exactly a success, but it garnered generally positive reviews.
1988's Return of Swamp Thing wasn't so lucky.
With a low budget and a bad script, it flopped hard at the box office.
It did, however, pave the way for not one, but two television shows.
In 1990, Dick Durock returned as Swamp Thing for a series that ran for three seasons on
USA.
In 1991, things got even weirder when Fox Kids got in on the action and launched a Swamp
Thing animated series.
That one only lasted five episodes before it got axed, but it did give the world the
gift of an incredibly weird theme song.
"Swamp Thing, you are amazing."
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Defending the "Bad" Indiana Jones Movies - Duration: 11:57.
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The Indiana Jones movies have sort of a weird reputation.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is thought of as one of the greatest films ever made, The Last
Crusade is often thought of in much a similar way with many fans even preferring it to Raiders.
But whether you're looking at the critics, or the die-hard fans, Temple of Doom and Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull are usually ranked as the lowest in the franchise, with some refusing
to even acknowledge their existence.
I'm not going to pretend that these movies are without their flaws, but I think they're
both largely great entries into the Indiana Jones canon that don't deserve nearly as much
hate as they tend to get.
Particularly Temple of Doom, which I think is every bit as good as Raiders or The Last
Crusade.
One of the main things that people seem to forget about the franchise is that they were
always designed as B-movies.
They weren't trying to create something on par with Cecil B. DeMille or David Lean, they
were trying to match the style and tone of 1930's Saturday morning serials.
Complete with over the top action, campy dialogue, and the cliche villains.
They had no idea how acclaimed or influential Raiders would go on to become.
Inspiring a new mold of action hero with humor and vulnerability that stood in stark contrast
to other action hero's of the 1980's.
Or that this cheesy form of escapist entertainment would one day completely dominate the box
office.
They just wanted to make a tribute to the fun action movies of their youth, but with
a technical prowess yet unseen in the genre.
And it did the trick.
General audiences in 1981 had never seen anything like it before, it was the highest grossing
film of that year and even earned eight Academy Award nominations, taking home four, as well
as one additional Special Achievement award for its sound design, all in all, not bad
for a B-movie.
The same could not be said for Temple of Doom however.
It still turned a considerable profit, and still took home an Oscar for Visual Effects,
but critics and fans alike felt that it didn't live up to the hype.
Where was Marion, or Sallah, or Marcus?
Why was it all so dark, and violent?
What was with all the racial stereotyping?
First off, I'm honestly shocked by how many seem to miss the fact that Temple of Doom
is a prequel, set one year before the events of Raiders.
George Lucas explained the reason being that they didn't want to use the Nazis again, and
they wanted to follow a similar formula as Bond with a different leading lady in every
picture.
So setting the film before Raiders took care of all of that, and allowed it to become its
own entry in the Adventures of Indiana Jones, which was always the intention for the franchise.
It wasn't like Star Wars with a grand over-arching narrative, it was supposed to feel like the
weekly serials of the 1930's, with our hero going on many different adventures.
As far as it being too dark or violent, that's actually one of my favorite things about Temple
of Doom.
I think it's such a bold choice that makes this chapter feel completely unique to the
other films in the series, something you would never expect from a franchise like this today.
In a world where every sequel tries to capitalize on the success of the first by falling into
fan-service, I think it's great that they took such a unique direction for the film.
It does get dark, with black magic and child slavery and ritual sacrifice, but that only
creates a more triumphant final act, and frankly, the final 40 minutes or so of Temple of Doom
are arguably the best in the franchise.
The liberation of the slaves, the conveyor belt fight with the voodoo doll, the minecart
chase sequence, the rope bridge.
Pure Indiana Jones action at its absolute finest.
I can see how people would be irritated by Willie Scott, but frankly can you imagine
being in her shoes?
This pampered club singer is all of sudden taken to the jungles of India with every sort
of creepy crawly slithering creature you could imagine?
I think we'd all be terrified and uncomfortable having to go through what she does.
But I can see how some wish it was toned down just a bit, at least for the audience's sake,
but the hate for Short Round never made any sense to me.
He's a great sidekick, always has Indy's back, can hold his own in a fight, and can be absolutely
hilarious.
One of the biggest criticisms of the film was its offensive portrayal of Indians, but
I always thought that was an unfair criticism.
The whole point is that this is a cult that has taken over the Indian Royalty, the Maharajá
of Pankot was brainwashed just like most of his other followers, and even Indiana Jones
himself at one point.
The whole reason Indy is there in the first place is to help retrieve the Sankara stones
that were stolen from a local village, and to rescue the children who were taken prisoner.
Meaning that this black magic cult isn't supposed to represent the whole of the country, but
a small corrupted minority.
You can then definitely argue that it falls into the whole "white savior" trope, but this
is Indiana Jones we're talking about, and if you don't have a problem with him saving
the day from the Nazis, I don't think it should be a problem for him to save the day from
cultist Hindus either.
Honestly sometimes it feels like the Temple of Doom critics don't remember Raiders as
well as they think.
"Oh, the villains are campy."
Really?
Forget about this guy?
"Some of the special effects look really bad."
What, like Raiders didn't have that problem as well?
"Well, all the bad guys are just negative stereotypes!"
Because this is such a loving portrait of the German people.
"Umm, well, it's too dark!
There's not enough humor!"
Oh I beg to differ.
I'm not saying you have to like Temple of Doom as much as Raiders of the Lost Ark, but
I think that if you consider it to be a bad movie, you probably should reassess why you
think Raiders is such a good movie.
Both have great humor, great action, over the top villains and supernatural twists on
old world mythology.
With incredible photography and music, and our beloved hero on a non-stop thrill ride.
What's not to love?
But with the film receiving so much backlash, they decided to play it safe with The Last
Crusade by basically re-hashing everything that worked in Raiders.
With the beloved sidekicks, the Nazis, searching for another Christian artifact in the desert,
but this time with a twist, his dad is along for the adventure.
The Last Crusade is a great Indiana Jones film, don't get me wrong, but it feels like
a retread to me and I would have loved to see the franchise follow its original episodic
intentions, for instance, one of the original story outlines for the third film involved
a haunted mansion, to give you an idea of the sort of campy adventures they were originally
going for.
And this is why Kingdom of the Crystal Skull seemed to come out of nowhere for most fans,
but for the true die hard Indy fans, it made perfect sense.
If the originals paid homage to the adventure serials of the 1930's, and if you have to
move the timeline forward to account for Harrison's age, then it seems like a no brainer to pay
homage to the adventure B-movies of the 1950's, where it was all about the Red Menace, usually
interpreted through a Martian invasion.
And just like the other three films, it relies on real world mythology and politics.
The Russians were interested in exploring mind control possibilities, and theories of
ancient aliens contributing to highly advanced old world civilizations have been around for
centuries.
So it carries on the tradition of honoring adventure serials of their respective time
period, while still allowing for the globe-trotting treasure hunting adventure that we've come
to expect from Indiana Jones, complete with the humor and the action set pieces that have
become trademarks of the series.
Obviously I'm with most fans in thinking that a few scenes took it too far, and there are
enough flaws to hold the film back from being truly great, I think it was ill advised to
break tradition by starting the movie with a bunch of random teenagers instead of Indy.
I think Mutt was underdelevoped and doesn't contribute much to the story other than making
old man jokes and justifying Marion returning to the franchise.
I think they should have toned down the CG quite a bit, even though most of it actually
looks solid for a movie that's ten years old.
It seems like the magnetic power of the skull changes every single time it's on screen and
all in all doesn't quite hold up to the other three.
But in spite of all of that, I still think it's a really fun movie.
Many of the action set pieces were incredibly satisfying, I found a lot of the humor to
be thoroughly enjoyable.
I loved most of the new characters they introduced, and Harrison Ford is undeniably excellent
as always despite his old age, and it still feels like it has all of the staples that
made the other three films so great.
I definitely think it's the weakest of the four, but to be fair that's some pretty stiff
competition, and when the series was in hibernation for twenty years it's only natural for it
to suffer from all that time waiting.
Ultimately, I think that all four Indiana Jones films have something different to offer.
They're all fun and exciting in their own way, and I think that if you watch Temple
of Doom or Kingdom of the Crystal again understanding that they're campy on purpose, cliche by design
just like the rest of the series, I think you can appreciate them more for what they
are, not masterful works of art, but pure popcorn fun with our favorite archaeologist.
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10 Ways To MASTER Hammond's Movement - Overwatch Wrecking Ball Rollouts Guide - Duration: 8:01.
if you've ever wanted to play overwatch as a hamster and wanted to learn to fly
around the map like that little spider hamster man that you could be today
you're in luck I'm going to be bringing you some really
insane ham and roll outs my name is Nathan and welcome to Blizzard guides,
before we get into the roll outs there's a few things that I need to establish
beforehand so that you can do this a bit easier first thing is that when you're
trying to do these roll outs you always want to have the hook error more towards
the longer side if the ground pushes you and forces the rope to be shorter you'll
still be able to make a lot of these roll outs if your rope is too short
though you can't make it any longer so just as a general tip make sure that you
leave your rope a bit longer the only team that you really want to use a
shorter rope is that when you're trying to get a quick burst of momentum but
this isn't really going to apply with the roll outs also you can sometimes use
that ground slam ability to gain just a little bit of range on your jump which
can be very useful so if you need it you can always use that I recommend that you
do practice these roll outs in a custom game before trying them in game because
you'll probably mess them up a lot more than you'd like to also I recorded all
this gameplay in this video myself but I saw these routes on the subreddit
Hammond rollouts and wrecking ball rollouts so you guys should definitely
go check those out it'll also be giving credit to all of the users who posted
the routes these featured in the videos are the best ones I could find but there
are also other good ones in this sub at number 10 some Li Zhong rollouts the
first one comes from user toilet assassin on reddit showing us how to
contest a point on Gardens
next we've got reddit user Yoshi brownie 12 giving us an alternate route to
contest point with and lastly we've got this really powerful flank on night
market that I happen to discover myself
at number nine we've got a really powerful will sky route from user
autistic on reddit bringing you number eight Kings row toilet assassin shows us
another route to get those pesky widows off of high ground next up we've got a
route that I also ended up discovering myself it's just the classic last point
flanked on a tech allowing for quick and easy alt on King's row
coming in at number seven a strong but difficult ileus flank to contest point
with from user artistics once again next up at number six some Dorado flanks user
birch a so shows us how to get behind the enemy lines and then back
then user Rocksmith two to five gives us an anti Widow route and lastly raw
yogurt gives us a really quick way to jump the choke point and surprise the
enemy backline at number five is some temple of Anubis spawn routes and flanks
user Spyros 42 gives us a way to get behind the enemy lines and on to the
widow spot for defense
l phallus it gives us a classic rollout to contest point maintaining your ground
slim as well this is pretty important so that you can use it if you need it
with number four we've got some I can wall flanks and methods to attack the
unsuspecting enemy user Barroso gives us a quick and easy way to surprise the
enemy's Widow a narwhal teaches us how to get behind the enemy lines
spider-bite shows us a really sneaky way to grand slam on the enemies at choke
this one is actually really really interesting because it uses a new
mechanic that people have discovered to ground slam on slope points so that you
get a bit of extra speed at number three we've got some junker Town flanks cadeau
XD shows us a really easy way to just jump the enemies set up toasty astronaut
shows us another similar way to get behind the enemy lines just a bit
further back on first point coming in at number two some Nepal flings MW didi
shows us a really quick way to get to the point without getting noticed at all
three opz flies across temple to get a seven second route to point this is by
far one of the fastest that we've seen
and last but not least at number one Hollywood surprise routes the real boy
shows us how to get up to the widow water tower spot as well as
demonstrating a really powerful perch above the Hollywood flank and the last
roll out in this video elf Alice gives us a really really good
perch to surprise the unsuspecting enemy with this one's really good if you want
to set up an earth-shattering that controllability you have
anyway I hope you guys found these really useful I've been practicing them
a lot and they proven very useful so far learning it takes some time but you can
really get it down with just some practice if you have any questions about
the video or the game in general feel free to tweet me on Twitter and comment
down below I'm always reading what you guys have to say and I really love
reading the comments if you guys enjoyed this video don't forget to leave a like
on this video to show us your support and if you really enjoyed it consider
subscribing if you haven't already and turn those notifications on so that you
don't miss out on any content anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this video have a
nice day my name is Nathan and this was Blizzard guides.
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Reece Prescod retains his British 100m title in Birmingham - Duration: 6:13.
Reece Prescod dropped the best of Britain on their backsides for the second straight year on Saturday night and then revealed how videos of Anthony Joshua might just see him conquer Europe as well
That latter title in Berlin in August will likely require a stronger performance than the 10
06sec he delivered here at the nationals to beat Zharnel Hughes and CJ Ujah into second and third, but reassurance and hope for the European Championships comes from his apparent imperviousness to pressure
For make no mistake, he was under some in Birmingham. Last year he had the luxury of storming through under the radar; this time the 22-year-old came with the hype of a defending champion and having run a wind-assisted 9
88sec earlier in the season. That led to a proclamation that he could potentially beat Linford Christie's 25-year-old national record of 9
87sec here and, while that proved fanciful, he did confirm that he is the best of what can be considered a golden generation
That is no small achievement.Hughes had a claim to that status with his 9.91sec run earlier this month — the best in Europe this year — but Prescod was the comfortable winner in their showdown, finishing 0
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Reece Prescod in mood to beat Linford Christie's 100m record. British Athletics avoid embarrassment as Justin Gatlin pulls
Caster Semenya bids to stop new IAAF testosterone regulation. Share this article Share They will now fill Britain's two automatic 100m spots for the European Championships and Ujah, the reigning Diamond League champion, has strengthened his claim for a discretionary spot after finishing third in 10
18sec. It was a disappointing time in a disappointing season, but he has likely avoided an awkward selection situation by beating Nathaneel Mitchell-Blake, a fellow sub-10 runner, into fourth
Ojie Edoburun was fifth. It is entirely possible that Britain could secure a 1-2-3 in Berlin, with the smart money on Prescod to lead the charge
He said: 'It was a different kind of pressure this year. Last year I was a surprise to everyone else but this year everyone was kind of watching me, putting that pressure on me
'Everyone now knows me as a racer — I turn up for the occasion and I do what I need to do to win
'I have been looking to role models in other sports. I have been watching Anthony Joshua and a few other top guys and taking bits of what they say about mentality
I have seen him perform on the big stage in boxing and even though it is a different field it is about embracing that — training hard, preparing right and coming to the championships and doing what you need to
'My mental game is what is going to take me to that next level.'On the challenge of winning in Berlin next month, he said: 'Last year I did well at the worlds and finished seventh
If I am seventh in the worlds you would expect me to contend for a medal at the Europeans, if not win gold
'Meanwhile, Dina Asher-Smith ran a championship record 10.97sec to win the 100m title and Morgan Lake did likewise to take the high jump crown with a leap of 1
97m.Earlier, former Olympic and world 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu, 34, announced her retirement
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'Scorpion' de Drake es el álbum más escuchado en Spotify a nivel mundial - Duration: 2:13.
Sin duda alguna el nuevo álbum del rapero canadiense Drake, Scorpion, era uno de los más esperados de este año, por lo que no es de sorprender que muchas personas lo escucharan una y otra vez en su plataforma de streaming favorita
No obstante, algo que no muchos esperaban era que se iba a convertir en ¡el álbum más escuchado en Spotify! De acuerdo con el sitio Spotify Charts, sitio de cifras oficial de la plataforma, la canción mas escuchada a nivel mundial es Nonstop, con 9 millones 298 mil 297 reproducciones
Pero no es la única canción de Scorpion en la lista de las más escuchadas, pues de las 25 que componen este álbum doble, 17 ocupan los más altos lugares de popularidad
La suma de las reproducciones de los tracks le daban a Scorpion el record de ser el álbum más escuchado en su día de lanzamiento con 132 millones 450 mil 203 reproducciones
Por otro lado, Variety indica que un representante de Apple Music confirmó que en ahí también había roto los records de reproducción en un sólo día, con más de 170 millones
Anteriormente el record lo tenía More Life el mixtape de Drake lanzado en 2017. Aunque estos números son muy impresionantes, un representante de Spotify dijo a Variety que estas cifras pueden no ser completamente atinadas, pues no se actualizan al momento en que alguien le da Play, sino que están detrás por un día
Este disco ha sido particularmente llamativo para los seguidores del género, no sólo por que incluye participaciones de gente como Nicki Minaj o un sample del mismísimo Michael Jackson, sino porque Drake por fin confirmó lo que el rapero Pusha T había dicho: su paternidad no reconocida
A través de la frase "No estaba escondiendo a mi hijo del mundo, estaba escondiendo del mundo a mi hijo", Drake que tuvo un hijo con la actriz porno Sophie Brussaux, algo que se rumoraba desde hace tiempo
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The HGTV star welcomed her baby boy last week. - Duration: 2:29.
Little Crew is snug as a bug! Joanna Gaines took to Instagram on Saturday to share an adorable new pic of her baby boy, Crew, "settling" into his gorgeous nursery
The HGTV star welcomed the newborn with husband Chip Gaines last Saturday. The two are also parents to Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie
"It's been a little over a week and he's settling in just fine 🧡," Joanna captioned the photo, which showcases both her bundle of joy as well as her impeccably-designed nursery -- which received plenty of comments from fans
"What a little sweetheart!!! He looks very comfy!" one follower wrote, while another added, "That baby rocker is adorable! Info plz!" ET spoke with Joanna in April, where she opened up about how her pregnancy was going, nearly nine years since she gave birth to her last child
"It feels like it's all brand-new, even the things that are available now to moms," she said
"Everything is so fun, these things are really going to help me!" "[Like] all of the swaddle things," Joanna continued
"I was so bad at swaddling my kids, and now there are all of these things that will swaddle them for you and it's like, 'Oh, that is done
' And the kid clothes." See more on Chip and Joanna's journey to baby No. 5 in the video below
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Tim Robbins ve Varech uvedl Shawshank: Nejdřív ale musel před lidmi na záchod! - Duration: 1:09.
Natěšení diváci nabalení v bundách a mikinách, jelikož je v lázeňském městě chladný večer s teplotami okolo 10 stupňů, mu proto cestu na WC zpestřili velkým potleskem
Když se pak Robbins na jeviště vrátil, sklidil aplaus znovu. prohlásil pak herec
dodal Robbins a vysloužil si od řady lidí potlesk ve stoje. Následně z letního kina odjel zpět do centra města, kde se věnuje společenským povinnostem
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