Welcome to Indieformer, I'm Josh and today we're taking a look at the Top 5 Indie Games
from November 2018.
We just finished our giveaway of the complete first season of Life is Strange, so head over
to the discord to see if you won.
Now let's take a look at some honourable mentions.
From an ex-animator from the Witcher 3, we have Ricky Runner.
A hardcore parkour platformer in a fully physics-based world.
It hit early access November 30 and I had the chance to play it before release.
And at the very least, the animations are good.
The levels difficulty increased at a good pace and left a lot for you to work out.
When you get into games like this you may feel restrained by what's in front of you,
but you've got to look at how to break the rules.
The only 2 points that need work for me are, firstly there's got to be some music in
the background, it's quite bland without any tunes as you're running and jumping.
Secondly, it's just a tad slow and sluggish for me.
Although it's in a physics-based world, everything just seems a little held back,
or maybe I just suck at these types of games.
I'd love for there to be a sprint option implemented to speed up the pace a bit.
One to watch through its development.
Miles is a freshman in college and 'The Wall' has been his passion project for the last year. last year.
It's a fusion of the strategic elements in RTS' like Starcraft, the fast-paced combat
in online FPS' like Call of Duty, and the crafting/survival elements in open world games
like Rust and Minecraft.
Now that's a great combination of games to draw from.
From the trailer, the crafting and survival look great, the shooting mechanics make it
look like an entirely different game and the reviews so far are really good.
Defend your team's generator and destroy the enemy's in this online multiplayer experience.
It's a got a ways to go with it expected to remain in Early Access for over a year,
so it might be good to invest in it now.
Coming in at an affordable 3 AUD, Warpzone Drifter is a challenging game to fill the
void.
A breakless drifter retro-hardcore arcade game, made by the same creator of the UBERMOSH
series.
The Warpzone is an unstable parallel dimension used for transportation, and it's your job
to drift through specific nodes to stabilise areas of the zone.
There's moving tentacles, limited time and procedural levels to keep your fingers on
their tips.
The controls can be difficult to learn, but once you've got the hang of it, Warpzone
Drifter becomes a great experience.
Here's an interesting one; what happens when you combine a first-person shooter with
the progression and upgrades of a clicker game?
You get Time Warpers, duh.
Coined as an 'incremental game', there's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and
the numbers keep getting bigger.
If you're someone who likes having a game idle in the background whilst you do other
tasks, then this might be something for you.
If a level is getting too hard, go idle and let your drones and turrets do the work.
Or join a public server and others may be able to boost you along.
Like any clicker game, there's going to be a grind and a point you can't pass unless
you grind, or in this case, go back in time.
For 30 AUD it might be a stretch for some people, but I'd consider it if you want
something you can literally just leave in the background and progress with and can play
at any time you want.
Maybe try to convince a few friends to get it too.
Now let's take a look at our Top 5 from November.
Based on Colin Thiele's 1964 children's book of the same name, Storm Boy takes place
on the beaches of South Australia near the mouth of the Murray River, where the titular
protagonist rescues orphaned pelican chicks, one of whom later becomes the child's pet
and faithful companion, Mr. Percival.
Cool.
Simplicity is at the core of this game.
It's comprised of many mini-games as you experience an interactive retelling of this
classic.
You take control of both Storm Boy and Mr. Percival in key moments, such as when the
pair rescue stranded sailors during a storm.
The music and design are beautiful, but it's a little rough around the edges.
This is definitely more of an interactive story than a game.
It puts pictures to the words of the book.
It's a way to follow a story, whilst also getting involved with some mini-games that
allow some attachment rather than just imagination.
I'd definitely say this was is aimed towards children, but if you like a good children's
book then this will take it to the next level.
It's a different experience when you can actually explore the world of a children's
book, and for a child, there's nothing better.
You can grab this on pretty much any platform of choice.
We live in a world where we use machines to do the dirty work, Despotism 3k flips that
and has humanity enslaved by an AI.
A resource management game, so there's nothing overly fancy here.
Manage the stamina, hunger and reproduction of your human race to continue building energy.
Every 20 seconds your food and energy deplete, so you need to manage how you're making
food and how your creating energy.
The aim is to make it to 25 days.
It's point and click, but there's nothing wrong with that if you're into it, but it's
necessary when there's so much to manage at once.
It's funny and challenging, but when you get the hang of it you pretty much know all
of the responses to make it through easily.
Thankfully though, there's a big update coming to the game that will be add more content.
Random events, point and click and general fun, can't complain for 11.50.
Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade,
Bruton & Moore.
Distraint 2 is a 2D psychological horror adventure game.
It has a dark story and it's fair share of dark humour.
The screen scrolls as you move to its edges with beautifully hand-drawn graphics.
There's music composed for each specific section of the game along with an atmospheric
sound design.
There are jump scares, as it goes with horror games.
But Distraint relies on human emotions, mainly fear.
So I'd call this more of a thriller than a horror.
Obviously, by the title, this is a sequel to an original of the same name where it follows
on from those events.
The mechanics are based around puzzle solving, so if you like a bit of a slow, story-heavy
puzzle game then you should give this a go.
I'd suggest picking up the original if you're going to buy this, but if you don't, the
sequel does a pretty good job of wrapping up the first.
It's only made by one guy, so any support his way ensures he can continue to make games
like Distraint.
For this one, I'm just going to let the developer explain.
It's one of the better trailers to let that happen with.
I'll give you my experiences once he's finished talking.
In theory, it sounds great.
But much like the babies, new players are useless unless
taught what to do.
So far I've not had many take the time to teach me, so I've had to have the wiki up
to see how to make things.
This game will take a lot of time invested to get knowledgeable at.
If you like a game that will reward you for knowledge then One Hour One Life is great.
Speaking and interacting with other players leads to hilarious situations, and you even
choose to be born as twins, triplets or quadruplets with a few friends.
For 30 dollars, I think this is a stretch, but as mentioned, if this is right up your
alley then you'll find it's worth.
A cooperative puzzle game that mixes eye-catching abstract art with mind-bending puzzles to
a unique gaming experience.
DERU is about playing together, you can play single player, but it's about communicating
and solving puzzles with someone else.
The main mechanic of the game is blocking the opposite colour stream.
It begins simple but ramps up in difficulty when new mechanics are added like being able
to leave a block in place to stop a stream or to transfer your size to the other player.
The design of the game is minimalistic and it uses nice shades of colouring.
It helps you focus on the task at hand and doesn't draw too much attention to itself.
There are a few bugs, but nothing that will stop you from figuring out a level.
One thing I forgot to mention is that this is a couch co-op game.
You need to use the same controller or keyboard to move the shapes around the screen.
That might be a turn off for some people, so they've integrated the game with parsec.
A client you can download to play with others online.
DERU is $21.50, so make your own judgements about the price, personally, it's a great
way to wind down and chill out with someone else and I'd happily spend the money.
It may seem odd to have a game like this as number one for the month.
But it's got challenging puzzles, a great design and plenty to figure out.
There really are no downsides to this game, and for other puzzle games like this, DERU
should be an example of what you should be aiming to achieve.
But that was my number one, what do you think the best of November was?
Let me know below.
Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time here on Indieformer.
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It turns out that many of the names we consider to be common are also used as words in other
countries that, unfortunately, have some pretty nasty meanings.
You might want to check out what these baby names mean in other parts of the world before
deciding whether or not to give one of them to your own little one.
Fanny
The name Fanny is more or less regarded as old-fashioned in most countries these days,
although it's still inexplicably popular in France, according to Behind The Name.
Once you know what the word really means, it's not too hard to see why this name fell
out of favor.
In the United States, the word is used to refer to the buttocks, which is pretty bad,
but nowhere near as bad as what it means in British English.
Across the pond, the term is a pretty offensive slang term that refers to a woman's private
parts.
"Oh god."
Mark
The name Mark has been around since the Middle Ages, although it didn't really take off in
English-speaking countries until the 19th century.
Today, the name is frequently given to baby boys, and was most popular for boys between
1958 and 1970 in the U.S.
While the name is beloved around the world, Mark's popularity doesn't extend to Norway.
And there's a pretty ironclad reason for this, "mark" is the Norwegian word for "worm."
Bill
Bill, a standard name for William, means a slew of things in the English language, but
they're all inoffensive, so English-speaking parents usually don't hesitate to use the
name.
Those parents might think twice, however, if they spoke Dutch.
In the Netherlands, "bil" translates to "buttock," according to Dutch Word Of The Day.
The term is more commonly used in its plural form, so Bill might not get too many giggles
in that part of the world.
But if you want to spare your baby the unpleasant Dutch meaning, you could opt for a less offensive
nickname for William like Will or Liam.
Lou
On this side of the Atlantic Ocean, there aren't really many downsides to the name Lou.
This short and sweet name originated as a nickname for names like Louis and Louise,
and was widely used for both boys and girls before falling off the baby name charts by
the 1970s.
The most commonly used language in the U.K. and the U.S. might be the same, but there
are some major differences between British and American English.
For example, in British English, loo is slang for toilet, not exactly something you would
want to name your baby!
Tessa
Originally a nickname for the name Theresa, Tessa first hit the U.S. baby name charts
in the 1960s and has seen steady use for baby girls since then.
Unfortunately, many Danish parents can't appreciate the name in quite the same way, according
to The Irish Times.
In the 1960s, a Danish priest in a rural church in Denmark was unfamiliar with the foreign
name Tessa and refused to allow a baby to be given the name as it sounds like the Danish
word for "urinate."
"What are you talkin' about?"
While Tessa is now on the list of Denmark's pre-approved baby names, Danish parents might
think twice about bestowing their baby girl with a name so close to a common bodily function.
Gary
The name Gary has long been popular around the world, and it was so widely used in the
United States that from 1944 to 1947 the masculine name even hit the baby name charts for girls,
according to Behind the Name.
Unfortunately, the Japanese definition may very well change your perception of this classic
name forever.
Gary sounds like the Japanese word for, well, diarrhea.
"Oh no"
Willy
In the United States, the name Willy is a fairly safe nickname for the more formal William,
a name which has been incredibly popular for centuries.
Given the widespread use of the name, you kind of have to wonder how it became a slang
term for male genitalia.
Fortunately, this slang word is mostly used in British English.
But if you plan on visiting England, you should probably shorten the name to Will.
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John: Would you stop switching the lights off! I can't see what I am doing. You need a good spanking
I did not show you this. Oh! I did you show you but I did not open the box.
Just a moment will do unboxing
I will place this by the window
It's not focusing properly but my happiness is shallow. I appreciate little things
I will put some candles next to it so she's not as lonely in there.
John:Big spoon for big mouth!
John:You got pretty little one darling!
John: This one is for you darling
John: I would rather give you the money and you can get something that you really really want
Tea time! This is my tea humba or sweet stew pork(not so sure of that ;D) and rice. It's left over from last night.
So I only have 3 pieces left
It is true because sometimes John's son and his girlfriend borrow the truck.
So there is possibility that this is hers because she is so glam woman. So that's why there's like a diamond detail in here
Gosh! if only this is real..it's massive.
I'm just a bit paranoid when I found this pen in the kitchen so I apologise
We got the response!
John: Who is it?
John: Where is that come from then?
Good morning mga palangga (my love)! Yes its already morning here and I did not end the vlog last night
Because we have some fight! No!!! Just kidding! We just so busy doing groceries
And so far there's none..
but to those people who is hurt and being hurt
Let go before it cuts you deeper. Do not lose yourself to a guy who is not even deserving to have you.
Don't be fool! I know they say love is blind
but please..you're so beautiful and you deserve more beautiful than what you are experiencing right now
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Nat Reviews: 5 Seconds of Summer's Youngblood - Duration: 7:35.
Hello once again everyone and welcome back!
I am Nattie and this is Nat Reviews, the series where I take a look at some piece of media
(music/shows/etc) and give my thoughts on it!
This week around I hit a bit of a snag, I don't know what to review, so this week around
I am going to be pulling a song off the Hot 100 and taking a look at it.
Okay, let's see what we got here... hm, this looks like something we could take a look
at!
Alright, so I believe we'll be taking a look at 5SOS' Youngblood!
I haven't taken a look at the Hot 100 in a few months to be honest or really listened
to the radio itself much.
I just go on YouTube or Spotify and find random music to listen
to.
I have missed out on this song for much of the year it seems.
It's been out for most of this year and yet I didn't hear it too often except for tiny
bits at the beginning or end on the radio.
Now I shall listen to it fully for once.
Let's see how this goes...
Now, I have heard of 5 Seconds of Summer before, when they hit it big back in 2014 and all,
but I haven't really sat down and listened to their stuff entirely.
So I have begun to correct that mistake, I just now listened to Youngblood in full
a few times.
I will try to keep things short and not go to full detail on the song, but I shall give
my best.
Okay, so the song starts off low but quickly ramps up in the chorus and from the first
chorus on, the song maintains a mid tempo energy.
I actually quite enjoy how the song sounds, but I can't be the
only who notices how much the song sounds like I Don't Know Why by Imagine Dragons.
Like seriously, it's eerily similar.
If this wasn't a review, this would definitely be a Nat Compares of this song
with that one.
In fact, they are so similar, I am not the first to notice!
There is even a mashup on YouTube!
(Linked below)
I am sorry, even when I am not trying to review Imagine Dragons, they creep back into my videos.
But yes, the songs sound verrry similar.
I will move back to Youngblood now, I will get to the lyrical
content but first I wanna say a few things.
I think the vocal delivery is really good, I really do like this song, it'll definitely
be stuck in my head a good while.
It kinda reminds me of Shawn Mendes.
The chorus is really big and epic, I enjoy it.
Now, lyrically, what is the song about?
Well, it's about the up's and downs in a relationship.
Now, I know the other week I 'complained' about love songs being so frequent on Imagine
Dragons' Origins, but I don't hate love songs, they can be great!
This song here, it's one of those great ones.
It actually has more depth than a lot of those songs did, and I enjoy it!
Thats as far lyrically there is, you can find out yourself, I linked the song below.
But I am not done yet, I have one thing I wanna point out.
Anyone notice how often 'Youngblood' as a term is being
used in music lately?
I can't be the only one to notice.
Off the top of my head I can think of a few, Green Day's Youngblood, this song, and Fall
Out Boy's The Phoenix all mention Youngblood.
There are also quite a few others, here's a list of just a few of them.
Okay, so about the music video.
Well, there are two of them.
One 'Alt Video' and another which is the one I shall be focusing on.
The Alt Video is just stage performance footage really, the Official
Video has more for me to go into here, thus I shall be looking at it instead.
Okay, so the official video is about an elderly Japanese couple in their last moments remembering
when they were young during the Japanese Rockabilly movement.
I find it to be very cool to get a peek into that kind of culture.
I have a few thoughts of my own about it, but I won't go into it here.
However, the video is quite entertaining to me and I quite enjoy
it just on it's own.
The video plays the last moments of their lives through their memories and the video
ends with them 'running out of time' and thus they pass away, having enjoyed one last memory
of being together as their youthful selves.
It's a very touching video to me, and perhaps the best couple in a music video since Justin
Timberlake's Mirrors video a few years ago.
I hadn't been so involved in a video like this in a while as well, so all the positive
points for the official music video!
However, we have reached the end of the song and all the directions I could talk about
it, so let's find out what my overall thoughts are!
-CONCLUSION-
Well, I actually really love this song, perhaps one of the best of 2018!
Sure, I may not have listened to a lot of the new music of this year, but ones I have
listened to, usually weren't my taste.
I do notice a trend of rock acts either making it big for the first time in years, as in
acts making comebacks that are successful.
Or rock acts that were huge in previous years turning out a flop
song or album.
5SOS are the second act I notice that had a first single for their 2018 album perform
lowly but their second single be a smash hit.
The other being Panic! at the Disco (don't worry, I will
be taking a look at them real soon) I have no idea what may be the cause of this trend,
but eh, I found it interesting.
This song will certainly be making my awards show at the end of the year, it's definitely
a fave of mine, even if it's already late in the year as I find out about it.
It gets a A+ from me.
It's refreshing to hear a song with so much cool energy from
it, even if it sounds similar to another song I know.
I won't take away points there.
Seriously do listen to this song if you're interested!
As I review it, it is still charting decently well even after
it's peak, so you likely will or have heard it on the radio or by streaming by now, but
yeah!
Do give it a listen!
Certainly!
For my first full experience with their music, if it's this maturely written lyrically and
this well produced musically, then yes!
Do let me know if you're a fan of their work, and if so, also
tell me a few of their songs I should check out!
I think I may be a new fan in the making haha.
It would appear we have reached the end everyone.
I love the song, very glad I discovered it before the year went out.
Do give it a listen if curious!
Thank you very much for watching, you know the usual
end of video stuff about liking and subbing, etc. thus I won't mention it.
However, this has been Nattie and I wish you all have a wonderful day!
Also, go out, have fun, get into a dance battle in the
middle of a Japanese city, and byebye~
Youngblood Say you want me, say you want me out of your
life And I'm just a dead man walking tonight
But you need it, yeah, you need it all of the time
Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh
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1000 Subscribers - Duration: 8:38.
It is time to celebrate. My name is Zdenka Darula. I work as a photographer and I
just reached my first goal few days ago which is getting 1,000 subscribers. So
how did I get 1,000 subscribers organically? What are my thoughts and
tips?
Before I get to the rest of the video, I would like to thank all of you who did
subscribe to my channel. You are the one who pushed me through the challenges of
getting started on YouTube here and I wouldn't be here without of you. So thank
you very much.
What did it take? How long did it take? What are my suggestions? What
are my thoughts? What do I think?
Now before I get into all that, let me take
this off please. Why did I even start posting videos here in the first place?
Well this is better. Just chilling on a couch.
My hobby is figure skating. Yeah. Well some of you will be probably raising
your eyebrows right now and thinking.... Wait. What is she talking about? This is
photography channel. Yeah, I know. Just wait.
I hit 40 when I sign up for figure skating lessons and all I knew is how to
go forward, stop and a little bit of the forward crossovers.
And you know naturally I wanted to see my progress so I recorded myself with my
cell phone when I was by myself on ice. And I and I wanted to share with my
family. Mainly the overseas part, so I kept
uploading it on YouTube and I didn't do any of the search engine optimization
stuff no keywords and stuff like that. That came much much later. I simply
called the videos Adult figure skating progress one month, Adult figure
skating progress two months and so on. And out of nowhere
people started subscribing. It kind of made me laugh and a little bit
embarrassed too. I was thinking who is watching 40 year old how to learn how to
figure skate? And then I realized later that people were getting highly
motivated by this. They saw my videos, what I was able to learn in one year and
I'm able to jump and I'm able to spin.
And then I was deciding if I want to bring this figure-skating channel to the
next level, but I treasure my figure skating hobby. It's a hobby and I really
don't want it to become a job. And since I work as a photographer, it was only
natural for me to open up a photography and a videography channel. It is
something I'm truly passionate about and I can honestly just say I know it well.
So when you open up a channel, nobody knows about it yet. You are not gonna
get many views. And as bad as it sounds, it's actually a good thing because those
first few videos you will be making will be videos where you will be learning how
to make the video, put it together, upload it on YouTube and how to do all the
search engine optimization. And I actually still remember how
uncomfortable I felt when I was making my first few videos. I couldn't deliver
any of the lines. I had a paper sitting right underneath my camera and I had to
read every single word. I just could not deliver it. ....a former model with 16 years
of experience. I was represented by agencies such as Velocci, Next and
Elmer Olsen.... and now that I made over 40 videos I no longer feel that
uncomfortable. I actually feel pretty good. The more videos I'm making it feels
more natural and sometimes it actually feels like I'm chatting with you. This is
my treasure box. This is where I keep all my goodies when I do photo shoots and
it's time to put those things away. Well my biggest fear here on youtube was the
fact that English is my second language and the fact that I have an accent. I
have a Czech accent. I struggled with it during my acting years back in in the
past and I still remember every single time I went to the audition I heard
again please but no accent this time. And this is something I absolutely love
about YouTube. Nobody's asking you to do it all over again without an accent. You
can completely create your videos and you can work with whatever you've got.
So don't get frustrated that you don't have any subscribers yet. Focus on your
content and the value. If you're gonna give the viewer what he is looking for
she's looking for, they will want to watch more videos from you.
And once the subscribers start showing up, create your own little community. You
know read their comments, respond to them. Say hello. You know care about your
subscribers. And in that time I'm here on YouTube I've met so many cool people
here. I had so many amazing chats with them. It totally feels like we became
friends over this time, right? And you know I gotta say how many times do you
meet somebody on the street who has the same interest or their same hobby? Not
too much, right? How many times do you meet somebody who is a photographer or
videographer on the street. Not too many times. You know those comments people are
gonna be leaving for you will give you strength to continue.
That's exactly actually how I feel. Every time I see a comment and I'm like alright,
thank you. Let's quickly get on the next video and it's gonna be even better than
the last one. Back on the coach. I know. Well by doing all these
common-sense steps you will grow your organic base subscribers. Well there is
no shortcuts my friends. No shortcuts. So my message to you who is starting your
YouTube channel. Is brand new here. Focus on your content. Just keep creating keep
uploading. Don't look at the subscribers number. I know it's very hard. Every time
I get a new subscriber I'm like thank you thank you thank you please come
again. Yeah it's hard. Just don't look at the number, ignore it. Keep creating. Make
new videos all the time. And finally message to my subscribers. Thank you very
much one more time. You are all very special
to me. I promise I'll have these videos coming up more and more and they
will only get better for sure. And as always if you liked this video
please give me thumbs up and don't forget to hit the subscribe button. If
you have any questions or comments or simply want to say hello, just do so in
the comment section below and you know I'll read them and I would respond them.
So thanks so much again. And I'll see you next time. Cau. Ahoj........thank you.... You will be back.
Can you say that because you kind of sound German. I'll be back... I'll be back..... Zdenka
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AAAHHH...giving. This is probably one of my favorite things in life. We do it a lot and
regularly, so random acts of kindness is something that we're all kinds of
familiar with here. It's something I think everybody should do. It feeds your
soul and takes you out at that place where all you think about is me me
me me me and into other people's hearts.
I am Wendy Valencia. If you new to my channel we are a family of three, or five
if you count my mother and father. We're on a debt free journey to pay off more
than $300,000 worth of debt. PPPPFFFTTTT. That number disgusts me every single time I think
about it. But on the upside we're well over halfway! So yeah we paid off this
much to date. Which is pretty awesome. So I'd love it if y'all would just stick
around and walk through life with us. That would be amazing.
Budget Girl invited me to participate in this collab. Which I love and I know
every single one of you who are watching already know Budget Girl, but just in case
you don't I'm gonna link her channel and all the other collaborators down below.
There's a lot of them and there are some really awesome channels doing this. As I
mentioned we give regularly. We don't talk about it much on this channel
because I believe that giving is so deeply personal and when and how you
decide to give is up to you and no one should judge you if you're on a debt
free journey or if you're not. You shouldn't feel pressure from anyone but
you to give. And in truth, if you're familiar with my channel giving is
actually how we got into debt. We took out bank loans for over one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars helping other people out. We never really thought about
anything more than the payment, but then we didn't have trouble making the
payments. We we were good financially but then we moved to Washington DC and
things started to look a little tighter cuz this place is super expensive y'all!
We decided it was time for a change and here we are and we paid off this much
money. Did did I mention..... The thing is we we have a giving category and there's
stuff in it every month but now our giving is just planned and budgeted and
we don't over give usually Christmas time is a problem for us because we have a
tendency to over give at Christmas time in fact it's usually pretty
desasterous for us. You know cuz we do our budget and then we're like well shall we
give some to this person and this person and this person and I really want to
give this item to this person and it's all more than we plan and it turns into a
debacle. But in ten years we really haven't ever stuck to our Christmas
budget but we've come close a couple of times but we are no longer struggling in
January to recover from Christmas because we're doing awesome financially.
But since we keep our giving private today I want to talk about some of the
like most significant giving that I've personally done in the past and we're
not talking about like the most largest amount of money giving I'm talking about
the most like impactful giving that we've ever done and so let me go ahead
and set the scene for you I was single and free freedom I had just moved to
Managua Nicaragua and I was a single twenty-something girl
living in the rich part of town I had a 3-bedroom 4-bath house well four
bedrooms if he count the maid's quarters I had a maid a gardener and a driver not
because as a single person I actually needed these things but because in my
role with my job it was kind of expected that I would hire these people but for
example my maid she worked a 40-hour week because that was the normal
schedule and I'm a crazy neat person look I mean there's like nothing and so
I'm pretty sure all she did all day every day was hang out and watch TV and
play with my dog and for that service I paid her $80 a month $80 a month I'm not
even kidding and when I was living in Nicaragua at that time there was a
person standing in every single intersection begging for money and I'll
tell you I don't really support Bay in any form shape or way I don't agree
with it I think there are better ways that people can get help but in
Nicaragua it was common and I was just shocked by the sheer number of people
that begged the kids that hung out in the streets and they were dirty and
hadn't showered nuts my gut kind of told me that the kids were probably a scam
and they were probably paid to be out there and every morning they went out
and like rub dirt on themselves to look more authentic but I wasn't about to
support that kind of behavior but I way to work that very first day there was
this mom out there with her son and he was obviously had Down syndrome and I
had no clue how old he was but for some reason I was immediately drawn to them
as a couple I saw them on the way home and I saw them on the way to work and on
the way home the day the next day and the day after that and the day after
that I really wanted to get them some money but I didn't think pocket change
would actually help them so I never gave them any money but every day as I drove
by I smiled and waved at the boy kind of like a I see you I know you exist sort
of wave he clearly loved his mom and I'd often like see her sitting on a milk
crate with this ginormous kid sitting on her lap she looked tired and I knew she
had a rough life so over the years that I was in Nicaragua they grew to
recognize me I mean look at me I have blonde hair and blue eyes and they're
not really common in Nicaragua so I pretty much stood out like a sore thumb
but every day as I drove by I'd smile and wave I never gave him any money and
I actually felt really bad about it because I felt like I had developed a
connection with them but I had a bigger plan
so after more than three years there when it was time for me to leave the
country I moved to Colombia where I'd meet Maurizio eventually I moved into a
hotel for a few days the hotel was located on the other side of town so I
knew I probably wasn't going to see this mother and son
again and so the day before the movers came to pick me out I went to the bank
to get cash I had planned from very early on that rather than give them
money every day I was going to wait until one of my last day is there and
give them a hundred dollars so I took it out that money from the bank and I put
it in an envelope and I went to a local toy store and bought the boy a wooden
airplane he never really had anything to play with but while he was out there
he's just kind of hung out and didn't really do anything so I thought maybe a
toy would be cool for him and I really wanted to give him something too so as I
went home that day I came to light and I smiled at the woman and I kind of like
waved her over this is the Nicaraguan way of saying come here and I stuck out
the envelope and the plane of the window and and I handed it so the woman in the
light change and as I drove away I could see her open the envelope and she had
this stunned look on her face and basically I figure I had given her
what she earned in at least a month maybe even two or three and imagine how
you would feel if somebody handed you your monthly income as just a kind
gesture so I don't know whatever happened to her I left shortly after
that and I obviously never saw her again I don't know if she's still out there on
that street corner I don't know if my money helped her I honestly I don't even
know if you know it was a scam but I don't think so and and I have a pretty
good scam meter so I hope that my little gesture made some sort of impact on her
life and I hope it helped her in just a tiny way and truthfully I know this is
all selfish because it made me so happy to help her just like it makes me happy
to help everyone except a see in the next one
see yeah we're out
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【Saya Scarlet】☆ 寄明月 ☆ - Duration: 4:19.
Passing through the old alleyway
Next to the green wall, you look at the sunset
With just a casual look
You mess up my thoughts and make me stay up late
I want to turn into Zhuang Zhou and become a butterfly
And glide across the green clouds and tree leaves
Even if the mountains are stacked
I don't want to stop here
I will send my lovesickness to the bright moon
Hoping that you will notice
I will write you as a poem
And send it innocently across thousand miles
You are the dream that soaks the new moon white
That brings an overcast of sadness and joy
You are the breeze that dyes maple leaves red
That carries my thoughts through the mountains
You are the tears that soak through the first snow
That's why you can come and go as you like
You are the you who dyed my years red
Changed my silent black and white world
Like the stream that trickles through the old street
And takes away the dreamlike season
The people on the bridge pass by endlessly
Dragging my troubled thoughts
If we can't recognize the butterflies Liang Zhu turned into
And ride on purple mist through the heavenly palace
We won't understand the feeling of parting
The autumn wind blowing off the leaves
I will send my lovesickness to the bright moon
My heart is in turmoil, I can't decide
I prepare for a long night
Like the numerous stars flickering on the sky
You are the dream that soaks the new moon white
That brings an overcast of sadness and joy
You are the breeze that dyes maple leaves red
That carries my thoughts through the mountains
You are the tears that soak through the first snow
That's why you can come and go as you like
You are the you who dyed my years red
Changed my silent black and white world
You are the dream that soaks the new moon white
That brings an overcast of sadness and joy
You are the breeze that dyes maple leaves red
That carries my thoughts through the mountains
You are the tears that soak through the first snow
That's why you can come and go as you like
You are the you who dyed my years red
Changed my silent black and white world
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