I'm afraid to speak my mother tongue.
I grew up with it. It was in my food, it was in my drinks.
It was sitting with my Abuelita,
or as I'd call her, Wela
listening about her life back in Cuba.
I grew up needing English in the hospital.
I grew up needing Spanish at home.
I grew up with immigrant parents who's second language was English
but they wanted to make sure English was my first.
I grew up loving speaking both English and Spanish at home.
But I grew up being ashamed of my Spanish every where else.
Because I've grown up in a country where to be American,
I shouldn't speak Spanish.
I'm afraid to speak my mother tongue.
And now because of this fear, I'm afraid to speak Spanish with the ones I love.
For fear of sounding too much like a gringa.
For the fear of messing up because I practice English more.
For the fear that I feel that although
my blood bleeds Cuba and Puerto Rico,
I can't claim Spanish as my own.
No matter how much I want to.
I love where my family comes from,
I love our food, I love our traditions,
I love our language but
Me da miedo hablar mi lengua materna.
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[MMD/OC] Radioactive (Credits in Description) - Duration: 0:58.
*Music*
I waking up, to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in, the chemicals...
Yeah...ahhh...
I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus
This is it, the apocalypse, whoa...
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my systems blow
Welcome to the new age, Welcome to the new age...
Whoa-oh...Whoa-oh...
I'm, RADIOACTIVE!
Radioactive
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Hollow Victory: No Evil 023 - Duration: 5:29.
(Banjo Music)
(Footsteps in the snow)
I got skaaaates….
And some sticks!
Let's go blow off some steam, eh!
You have fun.
You're acting crazy again.
How?
Didn't that wig have a death omen in it?
Last time you called me crazy it was because I followed an omen,
now I'm crazy because I follow socially accepted normality.
Which is right?
Neither, obviously.
Well… I'm gonna go skate, eh.
(Harmonica)
(Sound of falling sticks)
Me, versus all of you!
Aren't you gonna stop by the house for some rest?
If it really is Charles, then he's going after Xochiquetzal.
Why else would he have had Corn lead him to the fountain?
We gotta beat him to it!
Is that really why...
Marshal: Chalchiutlicue.
(Whistling)
Evening Marshal.
What can I help you with?...
...Only, I'm in a hurry.
You're looking… bluer than usual.
Marshal: Heh! You don't even care do you?
Not really!
Believe it or not there are scarier things than me here right now.
Marshal Bass: I believe you.
Marshal: Mind telling me about any of them other scary things?
You not gonna want to be in the way, human.
It's my job Chal.
Watch out for a little kid with brown hair and black dots across his face.
Marshal: What about a giant yellow snake?
Watch out for him too.
(Flute)
Former classmate: Ichabod!
See there, he's back!
I told you those rumors were hogwash.
Rumors!
Well there was this one story that you went to go live in a tree.
Former classmate: Who wants hot punch?
(Music)
Ah! You are cheating!
You aren't supposed to be…
You know….
Eh?
You're… it isn't fair.
Oh don't be silly!
If I let you guys face me one-on-one,
it'd be no fun for anyone.
You boys don't have anymore buddies you wanna join yer team do ya?
Hey, Icky!
Hey! Icky!
Icky!
Come on! Join their team!
(Music)
(Dramatic music)
I knew it!
Nagual form, NOW!...ALL OF YOU!
(Crowd murmurs)
(Music intensifies)
(Splashing sound)
(Stringed Instrument)
Kitty: Don't worry, Xochiquetzal, we can take it off them.
Kitty to Paula: You're gonna have to throw me.
(Somber music)
Sung by Kitty: I'll soon be free...
Sung by Kitty: ...from every trial.
Sung by Kitty: This body sleeps...
Sung by Kitty: ...in that churchyard.
Sung by Kitty: I'll drop the cross...
Sung by Kitty: ...of self-denial.
Sung by Kitty: And enter on...
Sung by Kitty: ...my great reward.
Sung by Kitty: I'm going there...
Sung by Kitty: ...to see my Savior.
Sung by Kitty: To sing His praise...
Sung by Kitty: ...forevermore.
Sung by Kitty: I'm only going...
Sung by Kitty: ...over Jordan.
Sung by Kitty: I'm only going...
(Loud percussion beats)
What?
Sung by Kitty: ...over home.
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Vino el Amor | Capítulo 43 - Duration: 4:12.
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Down to the last puff - Duration: 12:59.
Is hookah in demand?
Yes, it is in demand, but there is a shortage of craftsmen
I am Sivasankaran
How old are you?
49
How do you sell this?
There are a few agents here
They place orders with specifications of sizes and we make hookahs accordingly
Do you get any assistance from banks in the form of credit?
Yes, we do. I had taken a loan which I repaid
How much do you spend to manufacture one hookah?
A 16 inch-wide hookah will cost approximately 1,600 rupees
Including making charges?
Yes
How much do the agents sell it for?
It is difficult to say
Which communities make this?
The coppersmith-blacksmith castes used to make this
But now, I am the only coppersmith who makes these
Now Thiyya castes have taken to this occupation too on a large scale
In the1977-1980 period, hookah was a thriving business
Almost 90% of the houses and lands in this place used to be owned by hookah traders
Then, an investment of 12,000 to 13,000 rupees would give around 30,000 to 35,000 in return
Do you get any assistance from the government?
No, there is no assistance from the government at all
Is that resin?
Yes, resin [it is extracted from trees]
Is the resin melted?
Yes
Isn't hookah manufactured in Moradabad as well?
No, Moradabad does not manufacture hookah anymore
Do you prefer working in solitude?
Not like that, I will be more inclined to work only if I have people around
If not, I keep postponing the work
Is this household run on your income alone?
Yes
Do you manage with it?
Yes. I am able to earn 600 rupees per day
Is it possible to cover all expenses with this income – children's education, medical expenses, and all?
Isn't it possible to find markets for hookahs on your own?
Finding markets needs lots of money…
My name is Akshay
In which class are you studying?
Ninth standard
Have you ever made hookah?
No, I never made one, but I help with the polishing
Will you learn this craft?
Maybe…
At first, apply wax on the moulds of the three parts of the hookah
Then plaster each mould with three separate layers of clay
Then pour the molten metal into the moulds and forge it into the respective shapes
When you remove the clay, you will find the hookah parts in another colour
Then polish the units into this colour and assemble them together
My father learnt the craft in six months. And started to work from his homestead
Then he bought a four-cent plot [100 cents is one acre] and moved into this place and started working
He got plenty of work. He used to manage four smithies [workshops]
Your family used to employ 75 coppersmiths?
Yes, but gradually the smiths ran out of work during Saddam Hussein's rule [in Iraq, because it affected export of hookahs to West Asia]
Similarly, during 1977-1980, in the Emergency period [in India], the smithies began to suffer losses
Following these, my father could not continue the smithies or employ artisans
Also, my elder brother moved out of the homestead
My younger siblings chose other occupations such as that of an automobile mechanic
My younger brothers are now well-off because they shifted their fields of work
Those of us who chose to stay back lag behind…
Did the Gulf War affect the hookah trade?
Yes, it affected the hookah craftsmen who did not know any other occupation
They found it difficult to do any work other than this in the immediate aftermath of the war
We are more familiar working in closed quarters while other available jobs were to be done out in the sun
You were compelled to shift to other occupations?
Yes, I got into industrial works. I used to operate a lathe
Later, I returned to making hookahs
This is an unprofitable work of an artisanal nature and involves a lot of hardship
If you go out and do any other work, you will earn around 500 rupees per day, but not for this craft
But we continue with this occupation because we do not know any other trade
How do you sell these?
We work according to the orders
Once we make a hookah, we take it to the agents in Koyilandy and they export it to foreign countries
So you think it is better to take up another job?
Without a doubt
What was your traditional occupation?
We belong to the Thiyya caste
So you learnt the craft?
Yes. And I have been working for the last 30 years
How did you learn this? Did you pick it up from others?
Yes. Earlier there were quite a lot of smiths around
We went out and learnt it
There were a lot of artisanal families as well as some 30 workshops here
There were a few workshops in Kollam as well
Now the number of smithies has come down to just five or six
I somehow manage with this occupation
I have been in this trade for the last 30 years
Can you manage your expenses with this work?
Yes, I manage. I continue this as it is a matter of employment
Is hookah still in demand?
Yes, it is. This product is in demand all year round
But the traders who buy hookahs from us do not pay us well
The artisans must get at least 2,000 rupees per piece
But they give us only 1,700
We have no idea how much the traders sell our hookahs for…
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5 EPIC JAIL ESCAPES CAUGHT ON TAPE - Duration: 10:03.
from a jail worker that forgot to lock
the door to three inmates that escape
prison dressed as guards here real prison
breaks caught on camera number one Derek
Estelle thirty-four-year-old Derek
Estelle was arrested in 2013 after
stealing a car and evading police the
police chase ended in a standoff that
involve the SWAT team and teargas a week
prior to his arrest he was also involved
in a bank robbery he was held on 26
charges in total including aggravated
robbery burglary theft breaking and
entering and fleeing over the next
couple of months
Estelle with the help of his mother
girlfriend and her stepdad begin to plan
how he would make his escape on july 28
2013 he was transferred to the garland
county jail following in court
appearance this CCTV video footage
catches a still using the inmates phone
while talking to his mother he then
quickly drops the phone and dives
straight through the jail's open
reception window and runs out the front
door
Estelle then jumped into a waiting car
and sped away tomorrow Shaw Estelle's
girlfriend was later revealed to be the
driver of the getaway vehicle
investigators say upshot step dad
William Harding distracted the deputies
and divert their attention to the other
side of the booking room giving us tell
the perfect opportunity to escape as
downs mother was eventually arrested for
her part in the escape after
investigators listened to their phone
conversations and her say are the
shackles off and are there two or three
less than a month after the escape
Estelle and his girlfriend were found in
the home an Arkansan were arrested in
2015 and style pleaded guilty to his
charges and was sentenced to 32 years in
president his girlfriend was sentenced
to three years for her part of the
escape the two others involved are
currently awaiting trial number two
torriti Smith in 2009
thirty-one-year-old torriti smith was
arrested for aggravated battery on her
boyfriend she was brought into a new
orleans jail for processing
she was only in the jail for about two
hours before she saw an opportunity to
escape in the surveillance footage that
was captured at the Orleans Parish
Prison we can see an unidentified guard
entering the jail and slowly closing the
door
however it turns out that he didn't lock
the door that he came in he then asks
another jail worker to buzz him through
we then see the guard open and walks
through the door inside the jail and for
a second time he doesn't lock the door
just a frame torriti Smith has seen what
has just happened and asks if she can go
to the bathroom she then begins to make
your escape from the jail she quickly
walk straight through both doors without
anyone noticing and starts running down
the side of the jail
she then scales offense before moving on
the side of the camera story was founded
re-arrested is 24 hours later in new
orleans apartment building
she was rebooked into the jail on the
battery charged as well as an additional
simple escape charge number three rocky
Marquez rocky Marquez was jailed in 2010
on many charges including forgery
witness tampering DUI misconduct
involving weapons and drug offenses the
34 year old was incarcerated in Phoenix
prison where he befriended an inmate
that was close to being released somehow
Marquez convinced the inmate to swap ID
wristbands with him so we can get out
instead he then simply walked out of the
prison Marquez went on the run and
wasn't found for eight months until his
car with track down in Detroit
he was then locked up in Detroit prison
unbelievably rocky marc has escaped
prison for its second time using exactly
the same method in the surveillance
footage we can see how he just casually
walks out without anyone asking any
questions
authorities didn't even notice that
rocky and escape until a full five days
later after just over a month he was
found in Mexico and was swiftly deported
back to the US and 2014 rocky Marquez
pleaded guilty to many offenses
including conspiracy to possess with
intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms of
marijuana and conspiracy to commit money
laundering july twenty 2014 he received
an 18-year sentence
number four Chinese prison break on
September second 2014 gal you land lee
highway and weighing demen escaped from
a prison in yangshuo county northwest of
China all three men were in prison for
very violent crimes including murder
50-year old gal ulan had been given the
death penalty the three inmates teamed
up and began to come up with an escape
plan at 6am a guard named one took gal
you land to an interrogation room as he
requested to make a phone call once
inside you'll and began to strangled to
death
the other two men then rushed into the
room and grab keys at duane's pocket and
use them to steal police uniforms all
three men then put the uniforms on and
walked out of the prison one-by-one
police offered a twenty-thousand-dollar
reward for any information that would
lead to the recapture of the escapees
the three men were quickly recaptured in
apprehended within 10 days of the escape
on November 13 gal ulan and weighing
demen were both sentenced to death for
their killing of a prison guard and lee
highway was sentenced to life
imprisonment for his part in the escape
three guards were also given prison
sentences in November of 2015 ranging
from three to six years for their abuse
of power as one guard order to reduce
patrol and monitoring frequency at the
prison another guard was found guilty as
he was responsible for the lack of
supervision of police outfits and the
final guard had fallen asleep on the day
of the escape number five
el chapo
58 year-old joaquin guzman also known as
el chapo is a Mexican drug lord and
founder of the Sinaloa cartel described
by the US government is the most
powerful drug trafficking organization
in the world since 1989 the Sinaloa
cartel and trafficked I amounts of drugs
from South America to the United States
and beyond much of their success has
been due to their smuggling methods one
of which involve air-conditioned tunnels
that ran onto the mexican border guzman
hired many men to protect himself in his
empire that are allegedly responsible
for over a thousand deaths in 1993
Guzman was arrested and sentenced to 20
years in a Mexican maximum security
prison
however in 2001 guzman escaped prison VL
laundry card by bribing officials and
guards including the prison's own warden
a free man once again
Guzman continue to running through his
drug empire in 2009 it was reported that
his cartel was making an estimated three
billion dollars a year
el chapo became the US government's
number one drug target and offer five
million-dollar reward for his arrest in
2014 authorities tracked it down in
Mexico hotel and arrested him again
Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto
declined the US government's request to
have good man extradited to the United
States and explained that there is no
way he would escape again on july
eleventh 2015 guzman escaped from a
Mexican maximum security prison again
however this time he doesn't even have
to leave his cell the CCTV footage shows
guzman pacing up and down in his cell he
then moves towards the shower section
crouches down and appears to vanish
it was later revealed that there had
been a mile-long tunnel dug directly
under the prison that Guzman was able to
use to escape this footage shows just
how well-made the tunnel network was
equipped with artificial light air vents
and even a motorcycle that is believed
to have been used to carry materials or
possibly transport guzman himself
footage from guzman cell was released in
october 2015 that includes audio and
shows just how loud the digging of the
tunnel was and may actually prove
without a doubt that the prison guards
allowed to escape to happen
el chapo is currently on the run the US
government are once again offering a
reward of up to 5 million dollars for
his arrest and conviction
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Playing God(dess) - The Six Forces of Nature - Magic - Duration: 18:35.
Hey again! Alright, this's what you've been waiting
like three months for. Magic... as a force of nature. Not in the metaphorical sense,
but the quite literal sense among the four forces of nature.
Or, six forces of nature in fiction. I'll cover psionics next time, but for now, MAGIC!
So... why am I calling magic a force of nature? Well, if you're going to build a world from
scratch, you have to understand how stuff works so that you avoid plotholes and inconsistencies.
It doesn't have to be super-ultra rigorous or anything, just internally consistent.
For me, that means viewing everything from a scientific perspective. When it comes to
magic, that means I consider how it does what it does, and that involves much of the same
stuff we already know about physics, but skewed to work a lil bit differently.
This means that magic has a carrier particle - known as mana. It can be called all sorts
of things, from zeon to aetheric energy to whatever else you can think of, but it's basically
mana. Without this mana, there is no magic. Kind of like photons or electrons, if you
don't have either of those, you don't have electromagnetics.
Now this isn't just me making stuff up. Well it is, but it isn't. See, this's more of a
description of how magic is already used in fiction to begin with. For example, mana flows
in a very predictable manner similar to electrons - a path of least resistance. We see this
all the time, with the most obvious example being ley lines, which may as well be conductive
metal. Other examples are things like wands, or staves... again, basically the same concept
as holding an iron bar in a thunderstorm. I don't suggest holding the iron bar in a
thunderstorm. Just saying.
So before we go any further, what makes magic... work?
Four main things, really. First off, you need an energy source. Magic
doesn't just "magically" happen, as much as that would make sense. No, it still follows
the conservation of energy principle in which energy can neither be created nor destroyed,
merely reconfigured to another form of energy or matter.
We see this all the time in games, actually, it just doesn't seem obvious at first. The
concept of "mana" or anything similar at all, in fact implies this conservation of energy.
You don't consume the mana so that it disappears, you just change it into another form. The
mana was already present as a (super)naturally occurring form of energy to begin with.
The importance of this is that there must always be an energy source somewhere. Maybe
you draw upon the spirit world, or the warp from warhammer 40k, or the lifestream from
Final Fantasy 7, or some other variant upon such - it doesn't really matter the form it
takes, just that there's always something which supplies the energy to begin with. It's
just waiting there to be tapped. The second part of magic is a focusing agent.
This may be a unicorn's horn in My Little Pony, or a wizard's wand in Harry Potter,
or the gloves worn by the cabalists in hellgate for a few examples. The stereotypical wizard's
staff since at least Lord of the Rings is the same concept as well here - it doesn't
matter if you have a ton of mana just floating around you as an ambient source, you still
need to have some way to focus all that energy into a single spot so that it can be turned
into something actually useful. In many cases, this takes the form of the caster's own body
- in games and novels where only "some" people have "the talent" for magic, basically what
they're describing is the body having a low resistance to mana, similar to how some few
people just have a naturally low electrical resistance, allowing for them to conduct electrical
currents at an amazingly efficient rate. What this means is that energy can flow through
the caster like a lightning rod, drawing magical energy to them to be used. A walking battery
of sorts. This takes on a lot of different incarnations across various movies, books
and games, as well as even mythology and actual religions in reality - but it all boils down
to the same concept: you need an energy source, and a way to bring that energy together before
it can be properly utilized. Now that brings us to what we colloquially
call "magic" itself - the spell. A spell is... essentially a computer program,
for lack of a better term. The spell tells the energy you've gathered what to do, how
to do it and the specific details about exactly what's being done. Even a fairly simple spell
has an enormous amount of context which is needed to be able to get it to do what you
want. Consider the basic idea of "create water" as a spell for a moment here.
Alright, so you convert magical energy into matter, specifically water. Yay! That was
easy! Wait... but you need to tell it what water is - two hydrogen atoms spread at 120
degrees apart attached to an oxygen atom... and what atoms even are. More than that, you also need to specify exactly
where that water will appear. Want to create water inside someone's stomach? Oh. That's
uh... that takes some finicky calculations doesn't it? What defines "stomach" in this
case? You need some way to specify exactly where that water's going or it might just
be plopped into someone's bloodstream, which could very well kill them. You also need to
specify that the water doesn't just replace tissue which is already present, lest you
accidentally bisect someone. That would be kinda messy. At least you'd have lots of water
to clean it up on hand, so that's good I guess. Anyway, the point is that the spell itself
tells the energy what to do. This can take the form of rituals, summoning circles, hand
waving, chanting, all sorts of things. One of the novels from Shadowrun explained it
in a very eloquent manner I found - the act of drawing the summoning circle isn't the
spell itself, it's merely the organization of your thoughts in a particular manner. That's
why you can't just draw it out on a sheet of paper and dump it on the ground, the circle itself
doesn't mean anything, rather it's a step-by-step checklist of how to tell the mana what to
do. It doesn't really matter if you actually draw out the summoning circle with chalk or
not to be perfectly blunt, what matters is that you go through the mental motions of
basically printing off a circuitboard for the energy to travel upon so it knows what
it's supposed to do. This same concept can be applied to virtually
every form of magic ever imagined. Shamanism where you get your dead ancestors or some
spirits of the wild to do stuff for you? You still have to tell them what to do, and they
still are the ones to actually cast the spell, and it still requires input to know what to do.
What about using spell reagents in D&D? Yep, still used as a shorthand method of telling
the energy what you're trying to accomplish.
Even like uh, rune magic. Where you draw out the runes and then they trigger. Yeah, same thing.
So that's three out of four... but... but
what's the last bit? You already have a spell! That's the end of it, right?
We~ell, no. The last part is your triggering mechanism.
A lot of the time this's built into the end of a spell. If the spell itself is a program,
then the triggering mechanism is when you compile your spell's code and actually run the executable.
This isn't always built into the spell itself, though. Any sort of delayed spell, a trap, runes or warding
spells all have a separate trigger. Consider it to be like a safety match. Your
standard strike-anywhere match in old cartoons had both the ignition source and the fuel
together, so you could just strike it anywhere and poof, done. That was also dangerous as
hell. Today, virtually all matches come in three parts, the fuel is the wooden matchstick
itself, but the igniter is two separate stages - the tip has half of it, the box has the
other half. It's only when you put the two ignition halves together that you actually
get the fire started, which is an awful lot safer to use. As such, you may see this kind
of a thing show up in games or novels from time to time. Saorsa itself actually has a
two-stage casting sequence for it's spells where you build the spell's program into a
spell lattice, then you collapse the lattice as a separate action into the actual spell
for use, triggering it to actually perform the spell's actions. Meaning you can create
a spell long in advance and hold onto it, ready to release the moment it's needed at
a fraction of the normal cost, other than the fact that doing so would kind of keep
your attention busy elsewhere most of the time. And you couldn't cast another
spell if that one turns out to be inappropriate. You'd just have to lose it basically.
Anyway, what I'm getting at here is that the triggering mechanism for a spell is not actually
the spell itself, but a separate step which just normally happens to be built into the
spell in most cases, but it's important to recognize that it's a discrete action in and of itself.
Soooo with all of this, we now know that, even in fantasy, even in myth, even in actual
religions which practice magic in reality, or at least they believe they do, there's still a scientific basis behind all
of it. Magic is not, interestingly enough, magic. You can actually understand how it works.
In terms of how magic works in fiction, the
more you study it, the more it actually seems to work suspiciously similar to electricity.
Mana, or any other energy source for your magic regardless of what you call it, is essentially
the carrier particle for magic, just as photons and electrons carry electricity, gravitons
carry gravity, and the bosons, mesons and gluons handle the nuclear forces. So in this
case, "mana" is not a generic source of energy, but rather an actual particle which can be
exchanged back and forth. You can have metals infused with mana particles, which suddenly
means things like how cold iron supposedly works now makes sense! It's simply iron with
a positive mana charge, which causes it to negate the negative mana charge in most forms
of magic by prying away the free mana particles. This explains so much in a consistent manner,
from magical spells to enchantments to magically enhanced creatures to things like mythril
and orichalcum. Everything just kind of falls into place with a reliable predictability
of sorts. Yes, it's complex and has many facets of how it works, but by treating magic as
a fundamental force of nature, it actually ties together all the different forms of magic
in every book, every myth, every video game and every other source you can think of.
Magic is... a force of nature. Literally speaking. This grand, unified theory of magic allows
for every concept of magic which has ever been made up to coexist within the same setting.
Some forms may be incompatible with others more or less, much in the way an alternating
current and direct current don't play nicely together without an intermediate point of
conversion between the two, but they're technically the same thing.
With this concept, things like ley lines also make perfect sense - all they are in this
theory is a location where the natural resistance values are either low, or nonexistent. Meaning
you could quite literally build a magical superconductor.
But anyway, that's magic, and magic works on a broad scale. It's big, it's kinda clunky,
and you need an awful lot of energy to do even relatively simple tasks with magic. That
being said, magical energy tends to be quite abundant in most settings. Even the settings
where magic is really scarce, there's still actually quite a lot of it around when you
think about it, it's just not in a usable format most of the time. You need to "do"
something to be able to put the magical energy to work for you... namely, a focus and a spell
and trigger, and these may not be especially refined to performing magic on a regular basis.
It doesn't mean there isn't high background levels of mana, just that it's difficult to
access it most of the time. Psionics, on the other hand, work on a vastly
smaller scale, with very small bits of energy to create a cascading effect, more of rolling
a snowball down a hill where the hill is the other natural forces. Magic tends to do most
of the work on its own, psionics just acts as the initial spark. We'll get into that
next time though when we cover psionics, because it works similar to magic in some ways, but
vastly differently in others. If you want a hint on such though, we can
pretty clearly define the "alchemy" as portrayed in Full Metal Alchemist as actually being
psionics, not magic. Or more specifically, that the human characters in the show and
manga are technically using magic... but indirectly - they're using psionics to trigger a magical
effect. Sound weird? Well, you've got a few weeks to think about it before I explain it myself.
Unless... you're watching this in the future after I've already posted the psionics episode...
In which case I guess you can just go click that. Whatever.
Oh yes... and one last thing - HOMEWORK. Le garsp. We'll be covering magic in a lot more
detail later on in the Playing God(dess) series, but for now, your homework is to get the basics
out of the way. Figure out what the energy source of your magic is and what viable methods
of focusing that energy into a specific spot are available. Once you have an idea of what
your energy source is, and how to get it gathered into one location for use, then consider what
kind of methodology for using that energy source would likely arise. We'll get into
the traditions and spheres of magic later on, so the specifics aren't toooooo important
at the moment, just get thinking about where this would logically go is all.
And with that, I'm out. I'll see you next time!
Mana mana mo mana... wait that didn't work right.
Uh. Oh. I need to put more stuff here, huh? I uh, I only had the one lame joke.
Er... right. Well then, uh...
Two mages walk into a bar, and demand to see the staff. The bar wench pulls it out from under the counter and gives them a fireball a la flambe.
Yes, I made that crap up on the spot. This's what happens when I'm backed into a corner. So really, that awful joke is your fault.
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just made this for fun i'll make more - Duration: 9:35.
next time on roblox
ARE THEY GAMBELING GUNS!?!?!
[present day] this time on roblox
wow this is good day for meh to be myself for once :P
[now just enjoy the gameplay don't hate on me for the rest of this video]
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I'm Afraid To Speak My Mother Tongue | Disabled y Latinx - Duration: 1:22.
I'm afraid to speak my mother tongue.
I grew up with it. It was in my food, it was in my drinks.
It was sitting with my Abuelita,
or as I'd call her, Wela
listening about her life back in Cuba.
I grew up needing English in the hospital.
I grew up needing Spanish at home.
I grew up with immigrant parents who's second language was English
but they wanted to make sure English was my first.
I grew up loving speaking both English and Spanish at home.
But I grew up being ashamed of my Spanish every where else.
Because I've grown up in a country where to be American,
I shouldn't speak Spanish.
I'm afraid to speak my mother tongue.
And now because of this fear, I'm afraid to speak Spanish with the ones I love.
For fear of sounding too much like a gringa.
For the fear of messing up because I practice English more.
For the fear that I feel that although
my blood bleeds Cuba and Puerto Rico,
I can't claim Spanish as my own.
No matter how much I want to.
I love where my family comes from,
I love our food, I love our traditions,
I love our language but
Me da miedo hablar mi lengua materna.
Thank you for watching.
If you want to help support "Disabled y Latinx",
please consider becoming a Patron on my Patreon page.
You'll be able to get content before the general public.
The link will be in the description below.
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Hollow Victory: No Evil 023 - Duration: 5:29.
(Banjo Music)
(Footsteps in the snow)
I got skaaaates….
And some sticks!
Let's go blow off some steam, eh!
You have fun.
You're acting crazy again.
How?
Didn't that wig have a death omen in it?
Last time you called me crazy it was because I followed an omen,
now I'm crazy because I follow socially accepted normality.
Which is right?
Neither, obviously.
Well… I'm gonna go skate, eh.
(Harmonica)
(Sound of falling sticks)
Me, versus all of you!
Aren't you gonna stop by the house for some rest?
If it really is Charles, then he's going after Xochiquetzal.
Why else would he have had Corn lead him to the fountain?
We gotta beat him to it!
Is that really why...
Marshal: Chalchiutlicue.
(Whistling)
Evening Marshal.
What can I help you with?...
...Only, I'm in a hurry.
You're looking… bluer than usual.
Marshal: Heh! You don't even care do you?
Not really!
Believe it or not there are scarier things than me here right now.
Marshal Bass: I believe you.
Marshal: Mind telling me about any of them other scary things?
You not gonna want to be in the way, human.
It's my job Chal.
Watch out for a little kid with brown hair and black dots across his face.
Marshal: What about a giant yellow snake?
Watch out for him too.
(Flute)
Former classmate: Ichabod!
See there, he's back!
I told you those rumors were hogwash.
Rumors!
Well there was this one story that you went to go live in a tree.
Former classmate: Who wants hot punch?
(Music)
Ah! You are cheating!
You aren't supposed to be…
You know….
Eh?
You're… it isn't fair.
Oh don't be silly!
If I let you guys face me one-on-one,
it'd be no fun for anyone.
You boys don't have anymore buddies you wanna join yer team do ya?
Hey, Icky!
Hey! Icky!
Icky!
Come on! Join their team!
(Music)
(Dramatic music)
I knew it!
Nagual form, NOW!...ALL OF YOU!
(Crowd murmurs)
(Music intensifies)
(Splashing sound)
(Stringed Instrument)
Kitty: Don't worry, Xochiquetzal, we can take it off them.
Kitty to Paula: You're gonna have to throw me.
(Somber music)
Sung by Kitty: I'll soon be free...
Sung by Kitty: ...from every trial.
Sung by Kitty: This body sleeps...
Sung by Kitty: ...in that churchyard.
Sung by Kitty: I'll drop the cross...
Sung by Kitty: ...of self-denial.
Sung by Kitty: And enter on...
Sung by Kitty: ...my great reward.
Sung by Kitty: I'm going there...
Sung by Kitty: ...to see my Savior.
Sung by Kitty: To sing His praise...
Sung by Kitty: ...forevermore.
Sung by Kitty: I'm only going...
Sung by Kitty: ...over Jordan.
Sung by Kitty: I'm only going...
(Loud percussion beats)
What?
Sung by Kitty: ...over home.
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*Music*
I waking up, to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in, the chemicals...
Yeah...ahhh...
I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus
This is it, the apocalypse, whoa...
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my systems blow
Welcome to the new age, Welcome to the new age...
Whoa-oh...Whoa-oh...
I'm, RADIOACTIVE!
Radioactive
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Playing God(dess) - The Six Forces of Nature - Magic - Duration: 18:35.
Hey again! Alright, this's what you've been waiting
like three months for. Magic... as a force of nature. Not in the metaphorical sense,
but the quite literal sense among the four forces of nature.
Or, six forces of nature in fiction. I'll cover psionics next time, but for now, MAGIC!
So... why am I calling magic a force of nature? Well, if you're going to build a world from
scratch, you have to understand how stuff works so that you avoid plotholes and inconsistencies.
It doesn't have to be super-ultra rigorous or anything, just internally consistent.
For me, that means viewing everything from a scientific perspective. When it comes to
magic, that means I consider how it does what it does, and that involves much of the same
stuff we already know about physics, but skewed to work a lil bit differently.
This means that magic has a carrier particle - known as mana. It can be called all sorts
of things, from zeon to aetheric energy to whatever else you can think of, but it's basically
mana. Without this mana, there is no magic. Kind of like photons or electrons, if you
don't have either of those, you don't have electromagnetics.
Now this isn't just me making stuff up. Well it is, but it isn't. See, this's more of a
description of how magic is already used in fiction to begin with. For example, mana flows
in a very predictable manner similar to electrons - a path of least resistance. We see this
all the time, with the most obvious example being ley lines, which may as well be conductive
metal. Other examples are things like wands, or staves... again, basically the same concept
as holding an iron bar in a thunderstorm. I don't suggest holding the iron bar in a
thunderstorm. Just saying.
So before we go any further, what makes magic... work?
Four main things, really. First off, you need an energy source. Magic
doesn't just "magically" happen, as much as that would make sense. No, it still follows
the conservation of energy principle in which energy can neither be created nor destroyed,
merely reconfigured to another form of energy or matter.
We see this all the time in games, actually, it just doesn't seem obvious at first. The
concept of "mana" or anything similar at all, in fact implies this conservation of energy.
You don't consume the mana so that it disappears, you just change it into another form. The
mana was already present as a (super)naturally occurring form of energy to begin with.
The importance of this is that there must always be an energy source somewhere. Maybe
you draw upon the spirit world, or the warp from warhammer 40k, or the lifestream from
Final Fantasy 7, or some other variant upon such - it doesn't really matter the form it
takes, just that there's always something which supplies the energy to begin with. It's
just waiting there to be tapped. The second part of magic is a focusing agent.
This may be a unicorn's horn in My Little Pony, or a wizard's wand in Harry Potter,
or the gloves worn by the cabalists in hellgate for a few examples. The stereotypical wizard's
staff since at least Lord of the Rings is the same concept as well here - it doesn't
matter if you have a ton of mana just floating around you as an ambient source, you still
need to have some way to focus all that energy into a single spot so that it can be turned
into something actually useful. In many cases, this takes the form of the caster's own body
- in games and novels where only "some" people have "the talent" for magic, basically what
they're describing is the body having a low resistance to mana, similar to how some few
people just have a naturally low electrical resistance, allowing for them to conduct electrical
currents at an amazingly efficient rate. What this means is that energy can flow through
the caster like a lightning rod, drawing magical energy to them to be used. A walking battery
of sorts. This takes on a lot of different incarnations across various movies, books
and games, as well as even mythology and actual religions in reality - but it all boils down
to the same concept: you need an energy source, and a way to bring that energy together before
it can be properly utilized. Now that brings us to what we colloquially
call "magic" itself - the spell. A spell is... essentially a computer program,
for lack of a better term. The spell tells the energy you've gathered what to do, how
to do it and the specific details about exactly what's being done. Even a fairly simple spell
has an enormous amount of context which is needed to be able to get it to do what you
want. Consider the basic idea of "create water" as a spell for a moment here.
Alright, so you convert magical energy into matter, specifically water. Yay! That was
easy! Wait... but you need to tell it what water is - two hydrogen atoms spread at 120
degrees apart attached to an oxygen atom... and what atoms even are. More than that, you also need to specify exactly
where that water will appear. Want to create water inside someone's stomach? Oh. That's
uh... that takes some finicky calculations doesn't it? What defines "stomach" in this
case? You need some way to specify exactly where that water's going or it might just
be plopped into someone's bloodstream, which could very well kill them. You also need to
specify that the water doesn't just replace tissue which is already present, lest you
accidentally bisect someone. That would be kinda messy. At least you'd have lots of water
to clean it up on hand, so that's good I guess. Anyway, the point is that the spell itself
tells the energy what to do. This can take the form of rituals, summoning circles, hand
waving, chanting, all sorts of things. One of the novels from Shadowrun explained it
in a very eloquent manner I found - the act of drawing the summoning circle isn't the
spell itself, it's merely the organization of your thoughts in a particular manner. That's
why you can't just draw it out on a sheet of paper and dump it on the ground, the circle itself
doesn't mean anything, rather it's a step-by-step checklist of how to tell the mana what to
do. It doesn't really matter if you actually draw out the summoning circle with chalk or
not to be perfectly blunt, what matters is that you go through the mental motions of
basically printing off a circuitboard for the energy to travel upon so it knows what
it's supposed to do. This same concept can be applied to virtually
every form of magic ever imagined. Shamanism where you get your dead ancestors or some
spirits of the wild to do stuff for you? You still have to tell them what to do, and they
still are the ones to actually cast the spell, and it still requires input to know what to do.
What about using spell reagents in D&D? Yep, still used as a shorthand method of telling
the energy what you're trying to accomplish.
Even like uh, rune magic. Where you draw out the runes and then they trigger. Yeah, same thing.
So that's three out of four... but... but
what's the last bit? You already have a spell! That's the end of it, right?
We~ell, no. The last part is your triggering mechanism.
A lot of the time this's built into the end of a spell. If the spell itself is a program,
then the triggering mechanism is when you compile your spell's code and actually run the executable.
This isn't always built into the spell itself, though. Any sort of delayed spell, a trap, runes or warding
spells all have a separate trigger. Consider it to be like a safety match. Your
standard strike-anywhere match in old cartoons had both the ignition source and the fuel
together, so you could just strike it anywhere and poof, done. That was also dangerous as
hell. Today, virtually all matches come in three parts, the fuel is the wooden matchstick
itself, but the igniter is two separate stages - the tip has half of it, the box has the
other half. It's only when you put the two ignition halves together that you actually
get the fire started, which is an awful lot safer to use. As such, you may see this kind
of a thing show up in games or novels from time to time. Saorsa itself actually has a
two-stage casting sequence for it's spells where you build the spell's program into a
spell lattice, then you collapse the lattice as a separate action into the actual spell
for use, triggering it to actually perform the spell's actions. Meaning you can create
a spell long in advance and hold onto it, ready to release the moment it's needed at
a fraction of the normal cost, other than the fact that doing so would kind of keep
your attention busy elsewhere most of the time. And you couldn't cast another
spell if that one turns out to be inappropriate. You'd just have to lose it basically.
Anyway, what I'm getting at here is that the triggering mechanism for a spell is not actually
the spell itself, but a separate step which just normally happens to be built into the
spell in most cases, but it's important to recognize that it's a discrete action in and of itself.
Soooo with all of this, we now know that, even in fantasy, even in myth, even in actual
religions which practice magic in reality, or at least they believe they do, there's still a scientific basis behind all
of it. Magic is not, interestingly enough, magic. You can actually understand how it works.
In terms of how magic works in fiction, the
more you study it, the more it actually seems to work suspiciously similar to electricity.
Mana, or any other energy source for your magic regardless of what you call it, is essentially
the carrier particle for magic, just as photons and electrons carry electricity, gravitons
carry gravity, and the bosons, mesons and gluons handle the nuclear forces. So in this
case, "mana" is not a generic source of energy, but rather an actual particle which can be
exchanged back and forth. You can have metals infused with mana particles, which suddenly
means things like how cold iron supposedly works now makes sense! It's simply iron with
a positive mana charge, which causes it to negate the negative mana charge in most forms
of magic by prying away the free mana particles. This explains so much in a consistent manner,
from magical spells to enchantments to magically enhanced creatures to things like mythril
and orichalcum. Everything just kind of falls into place with a reliable predictability
of sorts. Yes, it's complex and has many facets of how it works, but by treating magic as
a fundamental force of nature, it actually ties together all the different forms of magic
in every book, every myth, every video game and every other source you can think of.
Magic is... a force of nature. Literally speaking. This grand, unified theory of magic allows
for every concept of magic which has ever been made up to coexist within the same setting.
Some forms may be incompatible with others more or less, much in the way an alternating
current and direct current don't play nicely together without an intermediate point of
conversion between the two, but they're technically the same thing.
With this concept, things like ley lines also make perfect sense - all they are in this
theory is a location where the natural resistance values are either low, or nonexistent. Meaning
you could quite literally build a magical superconductor.
But anyway, that's magic, and magic works on a broad scale. It's big, it's kinda clunky,
and you need an awful lot of energy to do even relatively simple tasks with magic. That
being said, magical energy tends to be quite abundant in most settings. Even the settings
where magic is really scarce, there's still actually quite a lot of it around when you
think about it, it's just not in a usable format most of the time. You need to "do"
something to be able to put the magical energy to work for you... namely, a focus and a spell
and trigger, and these may not be especially refined to performing magic on a regular basis.
It doesn't mean there isn't high background levels of mana, just that it's difficult to
access it most of the time. Psionics, on the other hand, work on a vastly
smaller scale, with very small bits of energy to create a cascading effect, more of rolling
a snowball down a hill where the hill is the other natural forces. Magic tends to do most
of the work on its own, psionics just acts as the initial spark. We'll get into that
next time though when we cover psionics, because it works similar to magic in some ways, but
vastly differently in others. If you want a hint on such though, we can
pretty clearly define the "alchemy" as portrayed in Full Metal Alchemist as actually being
psionics, not magic. Or more specifically, that the human characters in the show and
manga are technically using magic... but indirectly - they're using psionics to trigger a magical
effect. Sound weird? Well, you've got a few weeks to think about it before I explain it myself.
Unless... you're watching this in the future after I've already posted the psionics episode...
In which case I guess you can just go click that. Whatever.
Oh yes... and one last thing - HOMEWORK. Le garsp. We'll be covering magic in a lot more
detail later on in the Playing God(dess) series, but for now, your homework is to get the basics
out of the way. Figure out what the energy source of your magic is and what viable methods
of focusing that energy into a specific spot are available. Once you have an idea of what
your energy source is, and how to get it gathered into one location for use, then consider what
kind of methodology for using that energy source would likely arise. We'll get into
the traditions and spheres of magic later on, so the specifics aren't toooooo important
at the moment, just get thinking about where this would logically go is all.
And with that, I'm out. I'll see you next time!
Mana mana mo mana... wait that didn't work right.
Uh. Oh. I need to put more stuff here, huh? I uh, I only had the one lame joke.
Er... right. Well then, uh...
Two mages walk into a bar, and demand to see the staff. The bar wench pulls it out from under the counter and gives them a fireball a la flambe.
Yes, I made that crap up on the spot. This's what happens when I'm backed into a corner. So really, that awful joke is your fault.
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Do you live in this base?
Where's your friend
Nah, I'll stay here
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First Night on the Job - FNAF - Duration: 0:30.
Fist Night
FIGHT NIGHT ON THE JOB
WOW, THIS IS SO EASY
ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT THESE CAMERAS
AND I GET PAID
EXCUSE ME CAN I HELP YOU
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This fucking stupid [person],
His name is "The Small Blue"
And
On Twitter, he said
That if, he got 2 likes
On his tweet, I have to make a video promoting his channel on youtube
And he's very stupid
Yes, I have to admit it
But...
I can't tell you guys that he makes good content.
He doesn't. I mean... No.
But...
It's a request, I have to say that you go subscribe to him
So
Go subscribe to "The Small Blue"
Normally, If this weren't a request, I'd tell you not to
But whatever, I have to, this is my job
I'm not being paid ;-;
I want to be paid
I don't want 2 likes
I want a little bit more than that
Smh
Oh and then he also thought that
That if he liked the tweet himself, it counted
No, dude lmao
That doesn't count, what's wrong with you xd
What's wrong with you 2x
It's like if you
You said "ahh"
Okay no, I don't have an analogy
You don't do that okay? lol xd
black nibbers
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