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- [JAMES] Should you buy a PS1 in 2018?

Originally released in 1994 in Japan

and 1995 in most of the rest of the world

this is the console that put

Sony on the map.

Originally planned as a disc-based add-on for the Super Nintendo,

after relations with Nintendo went sour and we were

graced with Zelda on the CDi,

Sony decided to set off on their own in a fury!

They were set to make a console of their own that would kick Nintendo's ass!

For that initial console generation when the PS1 came out,

it did!

This thing sold phenomenally well.

It undercut the Sega Saturn,

and it had disc-based games

that held much more on them than the cartridges of the N64,

and honestly having a really nice grey design,

it's no wonder why the PS1

sold as well as it did and is considered an absolutely classic console.

But the real question is: is it worth owning nowadays?

Well that's what we're going to answer

in today's video.

Welcome to Stuff We Play,

where I love everything that's weird and retro,

even if you might not actually need it nowadays,

and if that sounds cool to you, why not subscribe?

So, jumping into hardware,

yeah, this is the PS1.

This is the Playstation 1.

There's a lot of different variations of this one model.

A lot of them have various ports removed

or added and what not.

The original model actually had RCA ports on the back.

There was originally a serial expansion port.

There was a weird expansion port that for some reason

you could put an unofficial Game Boy Player-type-thing into.

But, what was also weird at the time

is that this thing didn't use cartridges.

It used compact discs!

Aw man, that's such a pleasing button to press.

This is the Sony Playstation 1.

An absolutely

phenomenal console, but,

it was also a bit different than most Playstations that came after.

For example, just look at this original controller.

Notice something that's missing?

Joysticks.

Before we had the Dualshock we just had

the PS1 controller, which

was pretty much just a SNES controller but with these little

feet-grip things.

Oh, and also an extra set of shoulder buttons.

However, this was followed a few years later by the Sony Analogue Controller.

Yeah, not the Dualshock but the Analogue Controller.

Shortly after, though, we were finally given the original Dualshock.

What's interesting, though, is do you see this connector used by the PS1?

You can actually use all controllers and accessories

made for the PS1 that use his connector

on the Playstation 2.

But the honest truth as well is that

this isn't the absolute best version of the PS1.

I mean there are probably better ways to play PS1 games as well,

but we aren't at that point yet.

What was interesting is that

also unlike cartridge-based games

you can't save directly to the disc, so the PS1 came with memory cards.

These are cheap and easy to find, but

but do keep in mind that if you're playing a PS1 disc on a PS2,

you still need to use a PS1 memory card.

But what I think is the absolute best version of the PS1 is this:

this is the PS One.

With it actually spelled out as "PS O.N.E."

It came out right around the same time as the PS2.

Cooly enough, it has this flip-top screen.

It's not completely portable, I mean

unless you bought a third-party external battery pack.

You still had to plug it into a wall.

It has the portability factor

of like a laptop without a battery,

which means it's still

completely impractical to own today

but I still absolutely love this thing!

Besides, that's a nice CRT screen on there

and there's no better way to play Mega Man X5 than on one of these.

Well, at least as far as I'm concerned, right?

So that's cool and all.

The PS1 has had some cool revisions and what not that were super interesting when they came out.

But what are the games like?

And why are the games so revered nowadays?

Why are we seeing so many throwbacks

to PS1 games nowadays?

What are the games that are inspiring these throwbacks?

Well, that's what we're about to get into!

So, the PS1 had some fantastic games.

There were a lot of good ones, such as the start of series like Gran Turismo!

GT 1 and 2 were phenomenal games

back in the day, and while they haven't aged the best

they are still solid racers for the time.

But, what's even better than those are MotorToon Grand Prix.

This was actually made by the same guy, but like

before them

and it's a more cartoonish racer that's also really good!

Staying on the topic of racers,

Crash Team Racing!

It's so good! It's like Mario Kart but with Crash Bandicoot!

But, speaking of which, let's go into some platformers!

The Crash Bandicoot games:

now, I'm very new to these, but it's obvious that these are such classics.

They're a ton of fun here

and, yeah, they don't look pretty.

PS1 3D honestly looks really ugly.

But, Crash 1, 2, and especially 3

still play phenomenally well.

Now, admittedly these games are now best experienced via the Crash N. Sane Trilogy,

which actually remade this and is out on the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

But, they are still solid on the PS1.

There are other great platformers as well, though.

The Spyro games. Croc: Legend of the Gabbos.

Gex, which, okay, hasn't aged the best

but I still enjoyed Gex. That was a fun 2D platformer.

Funny thing about that: there weren't a lot of 2D platformers on the PS1.

Sony was making a really big push towards 3D.

Y'know, that was the new big thing at the time.

But, someone who was actually still really good with 2D stuff then

was Capcom.

Capcom gave us Mega Man 8,

the one and only 32 bit-style

classic Mega Man game.

While the cutscenes are laughably bad, the gameplay is extremely solid.

It's a bit easier than your average Mega Man game, meaning

that it's a great place for beginners to start with the series.

However, what really shone here were the Mega Man X games.

Mainly, Mega Man X4 and X5.

Yes, there was also Mega Man X6,

but I like to act like that one doesn't exist.

These games are honestly

really solid adventures.

X4 especially, but

X5 is great as well.

Fun fact about Mega Man X5, by the way,

this was originally actually going to be the last game in the Mega Man X series,

but then they made Mega Man X6

anyways because it was selling well.

X4 also has laughably bad anime cutscenes,

but it also has Zero, and this was his

first completely playable experience.

Without any frills, of course.

Seriously!

Whether you play as either X or Zero,

and I prefer Zero because he's so up-close and

personal and he has a sword and the long hair

and he's so cool -

it's a blast. It's a great game!

Mega Man X4 is probably one of the best platformers of all time.

It's at the very least in my top 20.

But of course there is more than just platformers.

They had RPGs!

There was the original Persona game.

Chrono Cross!

Final Fantasy! Oh my goodness Final Fantasy!

We had ports of all the games from 1-6

except for three for some reason.

And we also had Final Fantasy VII, the game

that made RPGs popular in the west.

I could go on about this one for hours, but let's be honest,

it's Final Fantasy VII.

This is pretty much the gold standard for RPGs,

even though I like Final Fantasy VIII and IX more.

By the way, Final Fantasy VIII and IX!

They're great games!

Final Fantasy VIII gets a lot of hate,

and honestly it does some weird things

like, seriously, what the hell is with drawing magic, y'all?

However, it's still a great time, and Final Fantasy IX

goes back to more of the fantasy-inspired roots of, well, Final Fantasy

instead of more of the futuristic theming that was done in VII and VIII.

There was also Final Fantasy Tactics,

a game that, admittedly when I played it back in the day I couldn't get into it, but,

I'm giving it another try.

I gotta say, this is great.

It's so fun.

It's so good.

I love me some Final Fantasy Tactics.

I mean, I could talk about more PS1 games for hours:

Rayman,

Jumping Flash,

Alundra,

Crash Bash, okay maybe not so much Crash Bash.

Though, I guess it was the closest thing to Mario Party we had here.

And, yeah, the Spyro games but I've never played Spyro.

But, if you want to learn all about Spyro, my buddy Jordan Fringe

has a channel that talks a lot about Spyro. It's good stuff.

But, moving on,

I have a controversial opinion on the PS1:

it's a great system

but the best way to play PS1 games is NOT on original hardware.

Okay, so many of you are probably saying

"Emulation!"

And, y'know what, no!

That's not technically where I'm going with this.

If you're screaming at me in the comments about emulation

then go away. Please.

But, you see, the PS1

of course can play PS1 games, but the PS2 can also play PS1 games.

But, as we established in my PS2 buying guide,

some of those have major issues.

But, as we also established in my Playstation 3 buying guide,

while only the first model of the PS3 can play

Playstation 2 games off the disc,

every single model of the Playstation 3 ever made

can play like 95% of all

the PS1 games ever made.

It doesn't matter if you have a launch model or even the recently released,

as of, y'know, a few years ago

Super Slim model,

it can play PS1 games off the discs.

It even upscales them!

In addition to that, though, you can buy PS1 games off

the Playstation Network Store as PS1 Classics!

Not only can you buy them like that on the PS3,

but you can also buy them on the PSP and Playstation Vita/PS TV.

I should also mention that

the PSP can natively run Playstation 1 ISO files,

but please do with that info as you wish.

So, ideally

though the PS1 is great and my

personal favourite way to play PS1 games is using the

PS One slime revision

with the flip-top screen because of how

cool that is! I mean,

it just look so cool.

The real best way to play PS1 games, whether they be

downloaded from PSN or

well, otherwise...

yeah, I know modding exists. You don't have to tell me.

Or play them off the actual discs, because yes,

the discs do work.

The best way to play them is on a PS3.

And even though this definitely isn't the prettiest PS3,

I still stand by what I said in my PS3 guide:

the best model thus to get to play PS1 games

is the Playstation 3 Super Slim.

It is still fairly cheap.

Plus, along with being able to play Playstation 1 games,

you can play all of those fantastic

Playstation 3 games.

But you know what, I may be beginning to ramble on just a bit.

What memories do you have with the Playstation 1?

Let me know down in the comment section below

and while you're at it, why don't you subscribe to Stuff We Play

for more great content like this,

and if you want to watch more buying guides,

why not check out one of my weirder ones

such as this one that I did on the Bandai Wonderswan?

Do you have any idea what that console is?

If you don't, or even if you do,

check out that guide!

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So, stay classy and I'll see you...

next time.

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Reading Women Award Nonfiction Shortlist | 2018 | Kendra Winchester - Duration: 12:09.

Hello, friends! I'm Kendra Winchester. Welcome back to my channel. Today we are

talking about another Reading Women Award shortlist . . . say that five times fast.

And if you haven't seen the fiction shortlist already, I will link that to

above my head and down in the box below. You can go check that out, but today is

about nonfiction, and so we have six books here that are made our nonfiction

shortlist. We love them all. I'm excited about them all. They're beautiful and all

of the other common descriptors that I use for books apply to all of these

books. I really enjoyed all of them, and they're just so important. And in fact I

believe they are all memoirs, and that is the first time that that has happened.

But I think women's voices women's stories, especially a women of color and

women from other minority groups, that are so important because we need to be

listening to women. We need to be hearing what they have to say and paying

attention to that, and I think all of these books just illustrate that very

beautifully. All right, so let's just jump into the list. So first up is HEART BERRIES

by Terese Marie Mailhot, and this is from Counterpoint Press. This is a

very slim memoir, but—oh my goodness—it's so beautiful.

The writing is so beautiful. Her story is very heartbreaking because she describes

her life as and Indigenous woman. She's from British Columbia, and grew up on a

reservation there. And then she moved to the United States later in her life, and

we open the book when she's having her first son taken away by child services

and her husband, her ex-husband, then got custody of her son and just what

that did to her. This is a nonlinear memoir, and it's like little snapshots of

her life and her experience with mental illness of trying to get her life back

together. How writing really saved her life.

And I don't know anyone who read this book that hasn't just been overwhelmed

by her story and just have taken so much out of her story. She's put what it takes

many authors hundreds of pages to do and she's put that in a very tiny little

beautiful book, and this edition has a Q&A in the back with Terese. So I just, I

just love it. I think it's great, and you'll definitely wanted to pick up if you

haven't already. So one of the sleeper books that I haven't reviewed on this

channel at all because I think it's one of the ones we've read most

recently, but that is Cinelle Barnes's MONSOON MANSION. This book is incredibly

beautiful and heartbreaking. So now Barnes grew up in the Philippines. She

grew up in a very affluent household, and the first section is just so vibrant and

dreamlike of how much money her family had. But then it starts to fall apart

very, very quickly, and she soon finds herself living in poverty. And she and

her brother can't even find food to eat, and I found this story so

heart-wrenching. And I had no idea that this type of thing had happened in the

Philippines at the time that the author was growing up, and so I think this

memoir is incredibly important and reminds us that there are other stories

out there that we need to listen to and pay attention to. I thought it was also

great that she has a level of symbolism throughout the book. Monsoon Mansion is the

house itself. It's almost a character and it also represents several different

things in her life, which I won't tell you because of spoilers. Now I will say

that Cinelle Barnes suffered through a lot of things in her childhood, so just be

aware that this might take an emotional toll. It might be very difficult to read,

but is it just a beautiful book. I just so incredible I also look at how it's

made this is out from Little A publishing. And they even did a printed

hardback. I mean, that's gorgeous, so yes that is just it. I just have no

words, like when you finish this book there's just no words left. Also the

author lives in South Carolina, so I think that's a bonus. If you've been

watching my channel, it's no surprise that this book is on the shortlist, and

that is I AM, I AM, IAM by a Maggie O'Farrell. And this is the subtitle is Seventeen

Brushes with Death, and this is a nonlinear structure type memoir about seventeen

times where she came in contact with a near-death kind of experience. And we

learned pretty quickly that Maggie O'Farrell suffered from something as a

child, and she was basically paralyzed for about a year and had to go to

physical therapy. Snd from there she had to really cope with that and fight

through that and then also her daughter in the present suffers from severe

eczema and also allergies. And you know as someone with a severe chronic illness

reading about someone who as one will had one as a child and then

that still effects her as an adult. But then also her child, caring for a child

who has also a chronic illness so much more, I guess, chronic. It's not as intense

she had like this one really sick incident that had effects on the rest of

her life, but her daughter is living through something every day and has

since she was a small child. And seeing that come about, it was just so important

for me to be able to see myself as someone with a chronic disease who lived

as a sick child and having food allergies. And I just saw so much of

myself and for me personally this was one of the most important books that I

read all year because I never see the chronic illness part of my life in books.

There just aren't a lot because, you know, sick people are sick . . . sick people are busy

being sick. And very few have the opportunity to write books and when they

do, I think they should be really treasured, especially from my from my

perspective. So I just love this book so so much, and we interviewed her on the

podcast, so I will put that link down in the description box as well as my video

of my reviews for I AM, I AM, I AM. and HEART BERRIES, so you can go see those if you

want.The third book is one that Autumn found earlier this year, and I'm so glad

she did. And that is OLD IN ART SCHOOL by Nell Irvin Painter this is a memoir of

starting over. So now she's a very decorated historian, but when she was in

her 60s she decided to go back to school. And she goes and gets a BFA in Fine Arts

in painting, and then she goes and gets an MFA. And this is that story. And she

talks about ageism, and then she's also, you know, a black woman. So the racism that

she faces, and how those intersect. And also, she's a woman, and how art criticism

asked her to leave behind a huge part of herself, which is the history part

of herself. And how through this time period of discovering art and learning

more about her own art, she's able to combine her love of history and art

together by the end of a memoir. And it's just, it's just incredibly beautiful. I

haven't seen people talking about this book much at all, but I think it

definitely needs to be talked about because we think that older people

don't have hopes and dreams still. We are very ageist in our American society, and

it's a huge problem, so we definitely need to be reading this and listening to

the elders in our society and respecting them and their wisdom and their gifts

that they have and the experience. So yes this is a beautiful book. This is also a

glossy page book because there are illustrations. Of course, I wouldn't open

to an illustration. Here we go. So when she talks about our pieces that she drew

for various assignments and different things. There are examples on this, and

the cover is kind of inspired by some of the art that she did. I think they like

took part of that and then did stuff for that. I don't know. Anyway, I don't know

art, obviously, but if you love art if you love stories about older women going and

conquering the world, then yes, definitely put this up. It is absolutely amazing.

Next up is ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by Nicole Chung. This is out from Catapult,

and this is her experience as a transracial adoptee where she is a

Korean American woman who was adopted to white parents. And she really loves her

parents and cares for them and appreciates how they raised her in many

ways, but she felt that they didn't address a part of her, the Korean part

of her, and that it seemed irrelevant to them in a negative way. She wanted

to learn more about her history and her struggles with that. I have never read a

book by transracial adoptee, and this is just so important. And she does it

a respectful way, and you know when you're adopted there are so many

different complications, just of wanting to know who your biological parents are.

But then being afraid to know who they are that you might be disappointed, and I

feel like she describes that so well. And throughout the book, she's basically just

asking you to quit assuming that adoption is just pretty

straightforward. Adoption of any kind is complicated, but especially if, you know,

you're not of the same racial background as the people who are adopting you. So I

feel like she did a great job with that. She is very clear in her writing style,

very precise, and I feel like the structure the book is beautiful. As a

writer and editor, I just love this book because you can tell she is also a

writer an editor. Obviously, it's on this list,

one of my favorite books of the year. Incredibly beautiful, I just can't get over

the book. Also the cover is just gorgeous! So that's ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by

Nicole Chung. The last book I have on this list is one that a lot of people

are talking about, and that's EDUCATED by Tara Westover. Tara Westover grew up

in a very like outlying conservative Mormon Fundamentalist kind of subgroup,

but also her dad was a survivalist and also struggling from a mental illness

that was left untreated even though her parents knew that he had it. But he did

not allow his family to go to hospitals or to go to school, and they "homeschooled"

them at home, but actually they didn't homeschool them. They just said, "Here's a

book. Go flip through it." And that was basically it.

And this is a really harrowing story about Tara coming into her own. And this

book is entitled Educated, but it's really I feel like that's a bit of a

misnomer because it's really about her life and coming to terms with her

parents and the emotional abuse that she suffered. It really is more about her

family. Now often the vehicle of education is very helpful for her and

giving her independence and knowledge and that is so incredibly important, so

I'm not like saying that that wasn't a huge part of the book. But I feel like

ultimately, it was her struggling with things that she knew versus her family

and what they thought and basically being excommunicated from her family.

They won't talk to her anymore. And she eventually went to Brigham Young

University which is the big Mormon University out west, and then she went to

Cambridge and got her PhD. And she's very respectful to her upbringing. She's no

longer a Mormon, but she has a note in the front that's like 'These are specific

people doing specific things ,and it's not a reflection on the Mormon religion

as a whole etc.etc." And just there's . . . just a unique memoir. She took a very

interesting approach to this, and yeah, it's just so so beautiful. I've talked

about this before in a different review, and we discussed it on the Reading Women

podcast. So if you have questions or wondering what on earth I'm talking about,

go check out the links down in description box. And you can find a more

detailed review of it. We really love this book, obviously, and so if you haven't

already check out EDUCATED—which you probably have, most people I feel

like reading this this year— check out EDUCATED by Tara Westover. so

Those are the six books on our nonfiction shortlist. I will link the

episode where we talk about the books down in the description box, if you like

to go check that out. But yeah, thank you so much for

watching. And the winner will be announced on December 5th, I think. That

Wednesday, first Wednesday in December, and you can find out which one of these

books won the nonfiction Reading Women Award for 2018. So have you read any of

these books? Which one do you think will win? Are there any of your favorites on

this list? So yeah that's it for me, and I guess I'll see you next time. Bye, guys!

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How to set up your Pumpkin Nester from Spirit Halloween. Your parts list is as follows;

Seat with legs, ropes and hanger,

Body,

Head,

Screws, bolts and plastic wedge,

...and Adapter piece.

First, unfold the legs.

Attach the body to the seat by inserting the plastic and metal rods in the corresponding places on the seat.

Insert the plastic wedge into the front rod and secure it with the screw on the opposite side.

Screw the larger screw through the metal rod and secure it with the nut. A screwdriver can be used to ensure a tight fit. [optional]

Pull down clothing to cover the module.

Attach the head by lining up the notches on the head to the corresponding holes on the body.

Make sure the connection is very secure.

Attach the adapter piece to the corresponding adapter jack coming from Pumpkin Nesters torso.

If you plan on using a try me button or step pad [SOLD SEPARATELY] connect the plug to the square jack also coming from the torso.

Now carefully hang the prop using the hook at the end of the ropes.

Lastly, position the hands around the rope and adjust the clothing as desired.

Your setup is now complete! If you have any questions or concerns please feel to ask me in the comments...and as always, thanks for watching!

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[DFFOO] Royal Hope Event Discussion - Duration: 4:53.

Hello. I am Harvey.

Today's video is about upcoming event, "Royal Hope".

This event will start on November 29th at 2 a.m. UTC.

With this event, Noctis will join our party.

Let's take a look at what he can do.

Noctis is a damage dealer with tons of skill uses.

However, he has a super high speed and his unique mechanics will also increase the actions he will act.

This might increase the number of actions that is needed to complete missions.

Therefore, to effectively use him, you need at least his 15 CP weapon and 35 CP weapon to increase his combat power.

He is also one of the strongest character currently in Japanese version of the game,

which makes him a good value character for free-to-play players.

His first skill is Shooting Star.

A skill with base use of 7 and MAX use of 8, which is good already.

It is a 2-Hit BRV attack, where the first hit is single targeted and the second is Area of Effect.

If the attack inflicts break on target, or hitting a broken target,

it becomes Shooting Star+ after use.

Shooting Star+ is a stronger version of Shooting Star.

It hits harder and able to move Noctis' next action right before the target's.

After use, the skill will become Shooting Star again.

Noctis' second skill is Death Drop, or Warp-Strike if you have his 35 CP weapon.

For convenience's sake, I will use Warp-Strike to explain in this video.

The two skills are pretty much the same, while Warp-Strike launch an additional HP attack.

Warp-Strike is a 1-Hit BRV + HP attack, with base uses of 7 and MAX uses of 10.

It grants Attack Up I to Self for 5 turns when used.

Again, if the attack inflicts break on target, or hitting a broken target,

it becomes Warp-Strike+ after use.

Warp-Strike+ is a stronger Warp-Strike.

Again, hit harder and able to move Noctis' next action right before the target's,

and turns back to Warp-Strike after use.

So, just remember, command skills with "+"(sign) hit harder and move Noctis' next action right before the target's.

For Noctis' EX skill, it's Conjure Armiger.

A 12-Hit BRV + HP attack and it grants 2 stacks of Armiger.

Armiger is a buff on MAX BRV and it grants 1 additional BRV hit to Noctis' command abilities.

This Armiger buff provides a huge buff to Noctis' combat power.

For passives, Noctis has a support passive at Crystal level 54,

which moderately raises Party's MAX BRV and slightly increase their SPD.

These kind of Party buffs will become more and more important later into the game.

Keep an eye on them.

For the boosted characters for the mission, we have Noctis, Irvine and Rem this time.

Seems the Co-op stage will be Clouds of Noctis this time.

Why not Terra you may ask.

It is because the boss, Phantom Mail, is resist to MAG attacks.

This annoying Giant will also hide their actions.

I expect there will be many misplays from Cloud players.

One way to reveal their action is to use Noctis of course.

You can keep track of their actions by using any command abilities with "+" (sign) of Noctis.

Still, each time they hide their actions, they become more powerful in terms of ATK and DEF.

Therefore, you need to kill them fast or you will be in great trouble.

This time, the EX mission should be pretty difficult as this event should not be out in this point of the timeline.

Finally, the banner.

Noctis, as mentioned, a very good character for free-to-play players.

As a character with Awakening and EX weapon right from the get-go,

Noctis is expected to do very well.

Therefore, 7/10 for his 15 CP weapon as Shooting Star is only a BRV attack skill.

His 35 CP weapon on the other hand, turns a BRV attack skill into a BRV + HP attack skill.

10/10 only for this reason.

It will help boosting Noctis' combat power.

For his EX weapon, it is very strong at the moment, and probably later as well.

However, not a must to have I guess. 8/10.

Irvine, HAhaa, Irvine.

He is no where strong, but one thing that he does well is quick farming the daily quests.

That being said, 1/10 for his 15 CP weapon.

His 35 CP weapon though, I will give it a 4/10.

A quality of life weapon which it should not be the target for you.

Rem's weapon rating is the same as mentioned in the Awakening video.

1/10 for her 15 CP weapon and 2/10 for her 35 CP weapon.

After calculation, the total score for the banner is 3.8/10.

Still this score should not be the only consideration for the pull.

The true question here is, is Noctis better than Vaan.

I will not answer this for you, but you should ask yourself this question before pulling.

I listed some points right here, you may take these as some advises.

For me, I would say Noctis is better than Vaan.

As a free-to-play player, I prioritize value a lot.

I think I will pull for Noctis just because he is strong in Japanese version of the game.

And his command abilities are benefited from Bahamut blessing power.

That's it for me today.

Before saying goodbye, I would like to tell you that I put all the sources of information under the description down below.

Feel free to take a look at them as what I said here is just a brief introduction.

Also, tomorrow's video will be delayed as I want to cover the EX mission as soon as I can.

Thanks for watching, and I will see you tomorrow.