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[Assistant] The impact of those character choices as they became evident in conversation like, Oh, I stayed in Italy for a while. What happened? What's going on over there? You know, like after you just selected that you've hung out in Italy for a bit. I love that stuff. And, um, yeah, I was, I was really digging it. So I'm, I'm kidding. Plus I'm playing on a steam deck as well. It just feels like it's made for that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, this week I have actually been playing Marvel's Midnight Suns. I got sent an early review code for that. That one, there's a preview embargo that dropped yesterday or the day before, and the reviews are later on obviously.


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[Assistant] Surprising game. I really was not anticipating it to be this. Uh, I've like stayed relatively across it, but obviously not as across it as I should have been, because it turns out this game is quite different to what I was expecting. Uhm, I really was expecting kind of like Marvel XCOM.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know there was a card based system and I was ready for that, but I really was expecting just Marvel XCOM.


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[Assistant] Not that. It's, it's actually kind of two games. The first is Marvel X-Combo with cards. And I really like that a lot. I actually think they've nailed that side of the equation. Cardcom? Sorry. Cardcom. Cardcom. That is sick. That's it. We're gonna, we're gonna roll with that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the other side of it is kind of like Fire Emblem where you go back to this base of operations and you hang out with heroes and you do like dialogue choices.


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[Assistant] So like make them happy or sad and you hang out with them and read books with them by the fire to build your relationship. And as your relationship gets stronger, they get bonuses in combat and you up and you unlock new combo card attacks.


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[Assistant] And you also have this big island that the Abbey is on and you walk around on it picking up herbs and you use those herbs to progress side quests.


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[Assistant] When you meet up with your buddies in this thing called emo kids, which is a club that's designed to explore your memories because you are a resurrected demon hunter and you've forgotten your past. And I know this is sounding weird.


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[Assistant] But this is actually what the game is on that side of the equation. And uhm,


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[Assistant] And they're just not interesting to talk to, like they just, they have this, they're all written with the same sort of.


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[Assistant] Every single one is just cracking jokes left, right and center.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, I don't have, I don't have the full roster. I'm 10 hours in, so I'm missing a lot, right? But I do have, like, uhm, yeah, Ghost Rider, for example, uhm, and I've got, like, Magic, Niko, uh, I've, I have Blade, yeah, and Blade's a perfect example, cause, like, Blade is not a badass in this game, like, he's just not, like, he's,


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[Assistant] He's just a really kind of nice guy that he wants to have a drink at the bar with you and talk about how he's annoyed about vampire movies and how they're all teenage romances.


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[Assistant] Yes, actually yes, we talk about, essentially we're talking about Twilight at the bar. And I like, uh, and look, there's a way that that could have worked, I think.


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[Assistant] But it's not working for me. Maybe it works for other people. I don't know. I'm, I'm, I was so ready for like a kind of hardcore gritty take on these characters, uh, with them telling me to fuck off and you know, like whatever. I just, I was down for that. The way these characters are written is very much like,


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[Assistant] They're just kind of those NPCs that you meet in a Bioware RPG.


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[Assistant] Where they're like, if you want to get, if you really want to know my secrets, you have to get to know me better and then like fade to black and then you're back walking around the world and you're waiting for the next opportunity to like sit by the fireside with Blade reading a book together. Do you know what I mean? Uh, that is how that works. And so I'm not digging that side of the equation, but


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[Assistant] And rewarding, uh, it's more immediate. It's more about like making decisions turn by turn. Whereas XCOM is quite like delayed gratification. You make decisions that pay off six or seven turns later in XCOM.


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[Assistant] Um, I really like it, you know, and I'm, and I'm keen to get back to it straight after this man. I'm going to go play some more and I'm going to go, you know,


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[Assistant] It's, it's not a lot of time for a massive performance uplift to happen. I don't know. But, but to be fair, performance optimization on higher end GPUs is often problematic. They are always optimized for mid tier PCs. So we shouldn't look into that too much. Like it runs well on Steam Deck funnily enough. Like quite well actually.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it does. Uhm, so that leads me to suspect that it probably is a high-end optimization issue. Uhm, but, yes. I'm glad the gameplay is good because it's for access. Yeah. Totally.


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[Assistant] And the kits, like the cards that they have for the heroes are so good. Like, Spider-Man has like a blunt, like he, you know, web slings and one of his moves is like blind and he has this other one where he like web slings between two targets and he can chain between the two of, like it's hard to explain to me honestly as I'm on this podcast now.


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[Assistant] But when you play it, you will be like, cool, you have actually translated the, the fantasy of these characters into cards really well. Like they've nailed the gameplay side of it. And that's not surprising because Firaxis nailed gameplay. But I don't think they've nailed the narrative side of it, which again, probably isn't super surprising because they're not a narrative led studio, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the same as like a Mario Rabbids thing that's like a spin on the XCOM formula. And I think that that is a totally different take again, but I love that because I'm like, I'm really down for that formula. And so even though I'm not enjoying all the story stuff, I'm still just having such a great time on the strategy gameplay side, but I'm like, yeah, man, sign me up, you know? So yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how it goes.


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[Assistant] And I think as well, that whole point about like your interest in Marvel is waning. It's like you've seen Doctor Strange and Iron Man and Spider-Man so many times now, and I get that they need to include, or they should, or whatever, include these characters because it helps sell units. I get that, 100%.


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[Assistant] But because I'm not gelling with them, I'm also like, Oh, I really wish you didn't include these characters now because I wish you included a whole bunch of other characters that are totally random and totally new. And I get to know them. Like I just mixed them. I wish they mix that up a little bit more than they have because yeah, I feel I'm feeling the same way about Marvel. This would have been an opportunity to like go their own way on that. It's a shame they didn't, they didn't do that.


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[Assistant] 21 years ago, on November 15th, the world was introduced to the Master Chief.


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[Assistant] Oh good, good. Four years ago, Fallout 76, baby, four years ago. Talk about a moment. That was the one, right there.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've never met a two and four person to be honest. Has anyone know a two and four person? No, I know a lot of one and fours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, look, I don't think it's good in inverted commas, but I'm like trying it to see what it's like. And it's got some stuff about it that I like, but I just don't like being on Twitter much these days. I'm just like, they're way less. So yeah, I'm just like seeing how that feels. We'll see how it goes.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome to FudgeMuppet, my name is Scott and I'm here with Michael and Drew. We've got episode 3 of the Elder Scrolls podcast talking all about the A-Lids. But before we jump into that, I just want to thank all of you guys for the epic support.


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[Assistant] Let's get into the a-lids. Drew, I'm gonna put you on the spot. Give us just a general, general overview of what an a-lid is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so top of the pile wasn't an Aldmer dude looking for Aldmerus because they lost it. So they were coming from Somerset going for a look.


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[Assistant] Well they, they seemed alright about it, like the bird people. Like they were fine with it, but as we know.


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[Assistant] As we know, the bird people are gone afterwards, but...


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[Assistant] It's interesting because there's a lot of creed in, or like, at least I think there's no reason to, so some people like disbelieve the Topol story. It's like, oh, are these bird people even real? But I'm like, there's no reason to disbelieve it. And the whole feathers and bird imagery and stuff like that is something that is a big part of Aelid.


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[Assistant] But then they, but then they were gone though. So like why, it's interesting, maybe the a-lids like pushed him out later, but this is all like Murethic era stuff, so this is like,


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[Assistant] You know, a solid while before recorded history it would seem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, but, so, yeah, there's some kind of Ultima Descended thing, and I don't know where they are in the sort of timeline, like, there is a question here, I'll have to find who exactly it was from, but it was, uhm,


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[Assistant] It was basically trying to work out like when of the races came, and I think this is like a big loaded question, like when did the Kymer leave? Did they leave after the A-Lids? Which I would kind of think yes, because Topol sort of dropped into Cyrodiil first, and then I guess the A-Lids sort of started then.


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[Assistant] I guess we won't get into that too, because we don't have to get into the whole Aldmeris discussion this time around, because it's pretty simple. Topol rocks up into Lake Romare.


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[Assistant] So we can start talking about, uhm, ailids in general. So to start off with, like Drew was saying, they were really similar in culture, like besides some of like, you know, the aesthetic and...


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[Assistant] Uhm, Daedric Princes and some of the really vile ones, but they didn't have the same attitudes to the Chima where they were like, uhm, exclusively Daedra versus the Aedra. They're, they're kind of like all of it, you know, and it depends on the king, cause, cause the Aelids had an empire, but it was more like,


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[Assistant] They didn't have an emperor, it was more like a coalition of kingdoms. And lots of kingdoms would have their own microculture like, you know, this kingdom might be dedicated to Merlach Bell because their king really endorses that one or that one might be dedicated to Xarxes or something like that. Like they were a little bit more, it's not-


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[Assistant] Yeah, the, the, uh, bar basic, I think it's that's how you pronounce it. Something like that. Um, a lids and they're ones that left and they ended up in black Marsh later on and they've got some cool connections, but we'll, um,


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[Assistant] We'll sort of get to that, but we can kind of like talk about their society a little bit, like their magic. So, let's-


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[Assistant] We don't know enough about like, or before they were sort of like, you know, aedric sort of elven, but let's talk about when it gets interesting, which is basically around the first era, because I'm pretty sure, uhm, this,


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[Assistant] Yeah, in 198, there's the scouring of Wendelbeck, and there's basically pro Deidre alyds versus against the, the traditionalist ones. So then there's a bit of conflict there. But, so it is sort of in the, in the first centuries of the first era, where


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[Assistant] The Daedric worship is kind of becoming a thing and they're going, you know, a little bit far away. I don't know how they viewed Meridia either cause Meridia's got like different significance cause Magnege stuff and then also their obsession with light and so on. But yeah, let's just, one of you guys can take over and start talking a bit about, um,


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[Assistant] Their technology, culture, because they've got some cool technology.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I was gonna say, we'll have to go into another episode on this, so you guys can, if you want, are keen for it, but the idea that


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[Assistant] So uhm, back in the day, the further you go back in history, the more magical and advanced everything is. And the further you go in the timeline, the less like magic sort of seeping out of the world or there aren't Daedra roaming and there aren't all these cool like crazy feats. Like in many ways, the uhm,


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[Assistant] Not technology, but magical technology of the ancients was, um, far better.


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[Assistant] Magic from Aetherius and capture it in the Vala Stones and then...


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[Assistant] Uhm, recharge their weapons as much as they want, which is also powerful in the battlefield, like them with their, uhm...


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[Assistant] Basically unlimited, well, I mean they need, they need the viola stones, but it's like solar energy. It's like unlimited. Like they can just keep using their ailed wells.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I was reading with those, uh, if you remember in Oblivion, like one of the things you needed for the big porthole to Gaia Lata was, um, a greater welcome stone. And apparently these were these giant, um.


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[Assistant] Well, welcome stones, like huge versions of them, but they stored, they often like powered the magical systems of all the ruins and, and like, so they, they basically hoarded these massive sources of them and a lot of them got pillaged later on. That's why you can only find the one in, I forget which ailed ruins specifically it is, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, it's kind of cool, it's like this magical power source for their entire, uh, ruins, but that's like revolutionary too, like the way that they could just restore magicka with welcome stones and so on and, and they were, I guess we may as well like kind of,


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[Assistant] See, we can start exploring, I guess, how they would get into the Daedra and one of the easiest ways would be through Meridia because she, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's associated a lot with the light, she was a magna-gee, she's right into it and she sort of like, like we said in the previous episode, her realm is a reflection of, uhm, Ethereus's light into her realm, the coloured rooms or whatever. And then like, so she's sort of got this big obsession for it and so do the alyds, and so they have these sort of like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, united goals in a way in that kind of research. And then also, they're enslaving all the Nidic people so that they need some Daedric armies to help them do. And I guess we can start moving into that. Like, it's also not just Meridia, but, uhm, there was also, I think, like Moloch Baal and Mehran's Dagon.


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[Assistant] Hamaeus more is another one. I think therefore that I mentioned specifically, but, um, uh, there are more, but, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that- that's, like, I guess it co- sort of coincides with them sort of...


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[Assistant] Magic from the starlight as they want. They've got all these super powerful enchanted swords and daedric armies at their command. There's these powerful sorcerer kings. So yea, they're just like burning children alive for sport and so on and like, you know, all of these hedonistic pleasures. And uhm, I'm sure there's some substance abuse and like all kinds of stuff going on.


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[Assistant] But, uh, and that really, uh, is a big reflection on their like treatment of the needy people.


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[Assistant] As, uhm, Nidic slaves, but obviously not all of them were like pro-slavery because some of them, uhm,


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[Assistant] We may as well start talking about, like, the biggest of all Aylid events. Like, this is where we know where all of the writings of this time is where we get the most information about the Aylids, which also does mean there can be some inherent bias. Like, some people speculate that with all of these gut gardens and whaling wheels of Vin Diesel and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we have a little more first hand confirmation.


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[Assistant] He goes on, there's a lot of elves to massacre, although to be fair, Pelennil also just kinda massacred anything that remotely looked like an elf, including a whole bunch of Khajiits.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeaah, so, so the setup, uhm, basically, uh, Alicia, the Slave Queen Alicia, uhm,


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[Assistant] He gets help from Akatosh to, uhm, basically do in the alyds. And then he also gets some demigod sort of champions, Mora House, son of Kain, and, uhm, who is their man-bull, or


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[Assistant] Like an actual bull with wings or like, there's a few sort of different interpretations. Um, but then also palinal white strike. So Drew, do you want to?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, I think that's the other thing is they had like the Kyma from the get-go with the Sigic Endeavor and they have this like really sort of like tight philosophy that kind of, you know, involved the good Daedra, House of Trouble, so on. But because there was such a small group to begin with when they left and went to Resdain, it allowed them to sort of keep that monoculture sort of very like sort of


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[Assistant] And they were very zealous about their religion, whereas the aylids were actually, like you said, a more of a sort of coalition of multiple kingdoms. So it's kind of up to the specific kings that, that, you know, they might decide, ah, I want to worship this one. And then because this particular king.


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[Assistant] You know, authorizes it and says it's cool, then a lot more people gather on and basically they weren't as politically unified as the Chimera, I guess.


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[Assistant] If you look at the songs of Pelon, like one of my favorite, I always love like just these like cool little descriptions of some of the, the Kings, like.


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[Assistant] But yea, he did, like, if we talk about the alyds through the lens of Pelennor, we actually get a little bit of information on a whole bunch of them. And then, like, oh, pretty much all our information's gonna be through the lens of, like, the rebellion and so on.


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[Assistant] But uhm, there's, I, I love my, one of my favorites, uhm, is Fire King Hadhuul. I just think it's such a like, cool thing and he taught, he's a, he's an example of a particularly cruel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, slave master, where the slaves were subjected to tormenting drugs and children were set aflame for night time tiger sports.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah, he gets killed by, uh, by Palinol as well. And rightfully so. But, you know, it's kind of-


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[Assistant] I love the titles and so on and I'm a big fan of a lot of those sort of more poetic texts in the Elder Scrolls books that sort of


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[Assistant] They kind of feel like you're reading some epic mythology or some epic, you know, um, like the poetic editors of Viking mythology and stuff like that. It's like an epic song kind of vibe versus just the informational ones. But then again, there's, uh, they're more likely to be embellished. But, um, yeah. So what's interesting too is that their whole.


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[Assistant] Don't want to, like one example is the alyds of Nenelata, which is one of the known.


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[Assistant] Future vassals of the Elysian kingdom, at least for a little bit, but, um, yeah, not all of the elves agreed and they wanted to get rid of the Dejah worship and that, and that is why, by the way, this is important because the


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[Assistant] Uh, they were using Daedric armies, which was a massive problem for the rebellion. Whereas, uhm, in addition to their, obviously, elven armies.


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[Assistant] That's why the pact with Akatosh...


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[Assistant] Blocks, uhm, blocks out oblivion, like closes off the gates of oblivion basically, so that they can't just summon upon these huge armies. And it's a big, so yea, that's basically why that pact is so important and exists, so that basically humans can't be cheat coded by a bunch of Daedra, summons Daedra, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, but I mean, Drew, do you have any other things that you really want to mention about Pelinal, the songs of Pelinal? Cause we don't want to go make the whole episode about Pelinal cause there's a lot of cool stuff there, but are there any?


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[Assistant] That's what I was about to say before we get to Umaril. I was like, are there any last like notes?


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[Assistant] Like, let's also talk about, like, we could just briefly mention the whole, like, demigod kind of thing, and there's these ideas that he's a Shezerine or, like, kind of Shor, aka Lorkhan, sort of reborn, taking these different forms.


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[Assistant] Starting all these human kingdoms and this is one particular incarnation. And then there's all the cyborg from the future stuff. I think you could just watch our videos on that if we've ever talked about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but so out of all of the Sorcerer Kings, there's plenty of cool ones, but obviously the one that stands out the most is Umaril the Unfeathered.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and what's interesting is, is that he supposedly has a divine father, but that divine father is Meridia, like, and an, and an ailed mother, so basically,


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[Assistant] Well that's how it's been interpreted, like, I guess there's other ways you could interpret it, like, his alliance with Meridia, kind of in pla- like,


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[Assistant] Like the divine father could also not be Daedric, but the way that, um, people have sort of put it together is that he is a child of...


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, there's lots of like, we'll have to do a kalpa episode at one point because I know that's a very like, strange thing, but look, basically he's got some like, cool,


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[Assistant] Demigod status stuff going on, and that's part of the reason why he can kind of come back in the third era when you do the Knights of the Nine DLC. And uhm, you know, you go and fight Umaril in the sky. Which is, it's like a cool set piece, but it's actually not like the best battle.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Which is much cooler, I wish he was towering.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah, so what's interesting too is he's responsible for Pelinal being like decapitated and being split and different. He beat, Pelinal beat Umaril, but the other, I have to find out, I think it's the other Sorcerer Kings. Yeaah, the other Ayleid Kings came.


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[Assistant] The eight. And we'll, we'll get to that in a second. And, but, um, and then that's where, uh, Morrow House has a little chat with Pelinal's head.


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[Assistant] As well. But uhm, we'll, we'll actually jump into that, their obsession with the number eight and the significance of alyds on, on all culture. So you got to understand at that time, like the needs were slaves for, for quite a while, like for generations, they knew nothing else. So their gods were also the alyd gods.


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[Assistant] So the Elysian rebellion had a lot of help from the Nords who were basically just conquering all of the North at this time. So this is in the second two hundreds.


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[Assistant] Uh, year 242 was the Elysian Rebellion and the Skyrim Conquest started, well, actually not started, but uhm.


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[Assistant] To sort of create this new culture, this new Cyrodiilic culture of, of men, uhm, Alicia had to make a pantheon that both agreed with the sort of, uhm, Aelid kind of, Aldmeri kind of religion that all of the slaves and the elves believed in, as well as the Nord stuff, and that's where


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[Assistant] And I think like A-lit obsession with the number eight is also why there are the eight divines, like that they only chose eight. Cause theoretically, like you could have picked more, there's more to pick from, from both sides, but they sort of, she just sort of made them into the, to the eight of them, you know?


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[Assistant] Which we know as, you know, your classic Imperial cult divines that have lasted for a long, long time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they doesn't even last for more than a hundred years, but there is this period where, uhm,


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[Assistant] For a hundred years after Elysia's death, so, so all the, all, there's a bunch of ailed vassal kingdoms that are all working, such as Ninalada, that are all going along fine, but, um, I bet it's less than a hundred years after Elysia's death. This is a note I'm down.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, but uhm, basically they ended up telling all of the alids, you're no longer lords anymore, you're gonna get out, and uhm.


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[Assistant] And otherwise we'll massacre you, massacre you all. And they did, whoever stayed got massacred. And this is all because, after Alicia's death, there was the prophet Maruk, who came up with the idea of the one true god and, you know, was visited supposedly by Alicia's spirit.


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[Assistant] Indistinguishable from the, from the empire's power structure. So that all of, so it became this really like zealous nutcase kind of place pretty after. So, so like the little golden age of Elysian rebellion, it's like really, if you look at like the good it did,


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[Assistant] Maybe during Alicia's death and her Minotaur son, Bilhar- Bilharzar or whatever.


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[Assistant] For uhm, however long that lasted, but as soon as the Elysian Order started kicking up, things went downhill. At least if you just weren't a human. I guess if you're a human, it's alright.


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[Assistant] I guess too while we're here, cause in a little bit we'll talk about the late


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[Assistant] Uhm, to reflect the, uhm, adamantine tower, which is, uhm, in Hyrule.


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[Assistant] But uhm, there, there's some interesting, uh, there's some interesting sort of speculation with the ailed.


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[Assistant] In this regard. So at that time, I mean, is there anything you guys wanna drop in before I keep running my mouth?


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[Assistant] Not to go into the, into the towers too much, but there's the whole, um, someone was asking about this actually. I keep saying a bit like, look, I read your questions and I've tried to incorporate this into the.


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[Assistant] Into the talk, but uhm, White Gold Tower sometimes is attributed to the reason why Cyrodiil isn't a jungle anymore, that somehow the alyds kind of built it, and then the warm tropical environment suited them, so White Gold Tower sort of changes the territory of Cyrodiil, and then when the men


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[Assistant] You know, took over and they're sitting on the Ruby throne and so on. It all becomes temperate. Like, like, you know, like the more northern people, the needs and the nords.


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[Assistant] The most, even though it's already a little contrived, the most airtight explanation is that Talos became a thing and just went click, done. It's not a jungle anymore and retroactively changed it. I prefer that one. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Because there's already that kind of retroactive time breaking stuff multiple times throughout, like it makes...


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[Assistant] Um, especially with like the tribunal and so on. So there's already a precedent for it in the universe. So just do that. The transcription error is the weakest thing. That's like comical. I'm glad at least because that was introduced in ESO. I think from the frastas of Ellen here, guy.


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[Assistant] But then there's Lady Cinnabar who, who says the, the tower one is saying that the tower transforms the land. But I don't even know how like,


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[Assistant] There's a few, there's an interesting discussion on the towers to have at some point, but I don't wanna like, derail it too far.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't think of any off the top of my head. And the other thing too with that whole towers theory is, is not quite sure how it worked or, or if they kind of did even build it.


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[Assistant] Like I could, you could even theorize that they didn't, just because I feel like, you know, Red Mountain is there already, Adamantine Tower is there already, if High Frothgar is like Snow Mountain or whatever they, if that's the other tower, uhm, the Elm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's considered one of the towers too. So there's a few like created towers, but look, we don't know how exactly all this works, but there's the idea too that like each tower that was built kind of like cements reality more. And that's why.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm just gonna have a quick scan of some questions. There's a funny one, it's like, Galmir5, why don't the alyds have mer in their name? I have no idea why. There is no, just I guess they, uhm, it's just out of their classification. I feel like in early lore they have another name like, uhm, uh, it's like Selia.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sally Archer? Or something? Sally Archer?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, that's not a real, yeah, cause she's got, her real name's unknown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she, she doesn't, yeah, she, it's not, they're all like, cause I'm pretty sure, um, Alicia even means one of them, they translate to something. The high high.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Uhm, but what I mean is this Sally, Sally Archer was like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, like they're descriptive, or it's probably got some better pronunciation than that. But there was also a few names for like Dunmer or High Elf, like equivalent of the ending in the CHE. So like, so basically before the mer thing, I feel like it's an earlier lore thing, like from Daggerfall that's sort of been left over. So I forget what the, let me, let me see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it might also be a little bit more of a cultural distinction as opposed to sort of like a genetic kind of one. Like, you know, they might have identified more with...


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[Assistant] Like, Uldmer or Uldmer or whatever, but they are still like, they would call themselves a-lids, but it's not the same kind of difference as like, Awesomer or something like that.


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[Assistant] Or, or the Dunmer even. But yea, it kind of all becomes semantic kind of stuff, we're just gonna like it.


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[Assistant] Go down, uhm, but Glastro was asking, I'd really love to hear the lore about behind Alid architecture and the logic behind it. In Oblivion, they are dungeons, and they're supposed to feel well dungeon-like, but is there any lore about them? Honestly, any kind of...


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[Assistant] Alid architecture talk would be cool. Do you know, the most honest of honest to God answers I think is it looks so cool because it's modeled mostly off Lord of the Rings, which was the hot topic at the time back in that, in those days. And that's why oblivion.


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[Assistant] As a whole, has a big tone shift from Morrowind and looks, it really takes like, it's Lord of the Rings but in a fantasy sort of thing, so there's a lot more of those sort of like, aesthetic cues.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but uhm, I mean, obviously there's part, and this is going to be with like everything, but like the dungeon feel and look for the most part is just to accommodate gameplay. Like,


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[Assistant] They could have also once, like, because their ruins like spread further on the exterior and so on, because they're thousands and thousands of years old, so they could have been degraded and so on. Like another thing too is like, I think this is in reference to the Dwemer stuff actually, but, in the Dwemer ruins, but like,


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[Assistant] You see the structure and the stone and the metal left behind, but like fabric degrades and all of these like biodegradable things or wooden chairs and stuff like that. Like they might have had plenty of wooden chairs and furniture and all this kind of stuff, but it's just not there anymore because it's degraded and been eaten. So yeah, you're left with a plain stone room. So it looks, so yeah, there's a lot.


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[Assistant] A lot of other stuff that could be going on, but yea, ultimately it's, it's very cool. Like I appreciate the architecture now, but it's very like Lord of the Rings, Elven. Like if you look at the, every single ailer door and you're remembering like the Fellowship of the Ring with the Mines of Moria, like that, it's like literally looks exactly like that kind of thing. So uhm, but yea, it's cool. It's cool. I, I, I do uhm,


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[Assistant] I do appreciate, but if you go to, if you go to Morrowind's sort of lore, uhm, originally, originally, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, more alien, sort of crystalline aesthetic kind of thing, less, you know.


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[Assistant] Exactly, like they've just written, and that's fine, like I still like that. Um, but I, I'm, I'm usually a fan of the more exotic kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Bastion, Nightsab, or something? Uhm, what's the connection between Alids and the Dwemer? Both extremely advanced merracers that live in underground mega-polis.


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[Assistant] It's a poetic connec- connection. I like the idea of the mini- one manipulates light and the other m- manipulates sound, but ultimately not really. And to be honest, Dwemer Heyday was, uhm, I think later than the Eilids. A little bit.


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[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah. I dunno, I dunno if that's much of a...


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[Assistant] They need to consume, you know? So uhm, if there's nothing left to consume, they consume themselves!


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[Assistant] But uhm, another question is, there's a few more Umeril questions, before we get to some of the later, because I kind of break it up a bit, just deal with everything we can ailed first. Uhm, the Auroran heritage of Umeril the Unfeathered, and why is he called the Unfeathered? I wonder if it is some sort of, like,


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[Assistant] Because of his armor or Daedric connection, like the, the lack of feathers, cause, cause alyds were often described as using feathers and stuff in their sort of, like aesthetic. Whereas the Auroran armor is very pristine. Sleek, and maybe because of that Daedric heritage, that's why, that's why he's called the Unfeathered, cause he didn't like, have the same, or maybe, I don't know if that armor's born onto him or what, but if he doesn't, um,


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[Assistant] It's kind of like distinguishing him from the rest of them. He's unfettered, he's not like one of the normal Aylid-born, uhm, exceptions, but yeaah, I don't think there is that much.


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[Assistant] Umeril's such a cool character, but I think all of these cool characters, it's like when you actually talk about them, there's not as much to say as you'd think. But like, Pelinal, it's cool because Pelinal's just killing them all, but they're usually just like, they're just basically like, uhm, what do you call them? Like, you know, just crosses off on his hit list. But they're cool, but they're cool.


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[Assistant] Well, let's then get on to the late alid period and some of that stuff. So, so there's the hundred years, so less than a hundred years after Elisey's death, you're basically, all of the alids are either told, get out of Cyrodiil or we're going to massacre you.


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[Assistant] Those who, who stay behind get all killed. And uhm, there's a bunch that have fled to all these different kinds of areas, like, you know, into Black Marsh, Valenwood, High Rock.


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[Assistant] Um, and basically they, they often went to other elven populations and, and the boring, really boring answer to it is a lot of them just probably assimilated and got absorbed by the local elven populations, whether that's the Durenian High Rock or the Bosmer in Valenwood, or if they went to the Somerset Isles.


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[Assistant] Potentially, you never even know, but maybe some particular ones went to, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't know if that fits in with the timeline as well, but not really, I don't think so. Maybe, but what I'm saying is they could have gone with any sort of number of Elven.


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[Assistant] Populations, because a lot of them, you think too, it's not, it's not always gonna be a case of a king in a full like political faction, just,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uhm, well, he goes to, uh, first, he goes to build a city, doesn't he? Founded the city of Bis Nensel in High Rock, which was supposed to be a bit of an imitation of, of, uh,


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[Assistant] Not in their, uhm, expansion at that time.


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[Assistant] And this Dianar guy, he got caught in cold harbor.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, but there's also, I'm pretty, uh, forget her name. It's like something that starts with a T. Um, she's a, she's a sage or something that was living in Valenwood who's said to be an ailed or. Yeah, there are rumors that there are other.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, we can get started while I find this, uhm, on, uh, Menka Cameron. He's one of the potential... potential...


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[Assistant] It's good to like, it is stretch in some areas or something. Oh yea, it's a massive stretch. Yea. But like, it's a fun- It's still fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, here's a, here's a, by the way, just a quick reference to who I was talking about. Indeed, uh, this is from the book The Wild Elves. Indeed, one of the finest sages of the University of Gwilym was a civilized ailed elf.


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[Assistant] T-J-U-R-H-A-N-E. Sure. Ooh. Jorhain Fier. Jorhain Fier. Uhm, but basically she was born in, according to this little time thing here, in the really late first era, 2790.


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[Assistant] Who's published work on the wild elves suggests a lively vibrant culture, uhm.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeaah, so basically there were some up in like throughout the first era, but to be honest, I feel like they're kind of gone. I feel like some might be, it's the kind of thing where it's like, that person might be like, oh, I've got like,


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[Assistant] I'm actually, I'm one-eighth, uh, viking, you know, like one-eighth of my, like, you know, or, or, you know, 5% of my...


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[Assistant] But yea, like, I mean, they're not doing DNA tests, but like, in the lineage. But yea, so ultimately, I, I don't think, they're not around anymore. It's the same as the Dwemer. Everything, it's sort of like a bit of a hopeful stretch most of the time. And they're cool, but, I mean, some of them are around as liches.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I'm honestly, I'm so at peace with the idea that they're gone. Like they're cool, but a lot of things in history are, are cooler too because they're history as well.


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[Assistant] You know, it's the same as even our real world stuff, like heaps of the-


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[Assistant] Maybe, but people say that a lot with a lot of those embellishments, which is obviously part of, you know, part of the truth. But the thing is too, it's like you are living in this hyper-magical world, like it's very possible in regards to the Elder Scrolls things that, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then he got, um, some little shepherd woman, grabbed him, put him on the ruby throne, and then he spoke in a fully, fully grown man's voice and says, I am Cyrodiil, come.


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[Assistant] But then again, I'm like, there's sort of mythological ideas for us about in our world about things that are only like 2000 years old. Whereas they like, even the second era is, is a really long time away from.


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[Assistant] And that's how crazy how like far back the first era kind of stuff is.


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[Assistant] But uhm, one thing we can also talk about, just talking about like people claiming descendants and so on, uhm, I'm pretty sure, I might just have to look it up, hold on. Nenelada, you know the quest in, where you're going around getting the ailed statues in Oblivion for that dude. Uhm.


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[Assistant] He, uh, doesn't he claim some sort of ancestry or something is like,


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[Assistant] Umbacano. Yeah, I remember him. Umbacano. Or is he just, uh, he's just ultimate mage and suspected ailed revivalist.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the crowns, yeah, so I don't, yeah, I think it's just, he's just enthusiastic about it, which is cool, but it'd actually be a dangerous sentiment to have in the, um, like that'd be very controversial, like an A-lit revivalist, cause it's like, you know how like there's things with a big, like, um, you know, historical bad guys, like you can't be. Oh, I mean,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I don't, uhm, ehm, Alids are actually, that's what makes them kinda interesting, I guess, and you have to fill in a lot more, but there is a lot less to talk about than you'd think.


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[Assistant] I can't think if it was, you might, it might be an ailed story or that might be a thing with the...


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a few interesting things, but uhm, yea, Alid Society, it is cool, but it's over.


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[Assistant] Yeah, isn't there a cool quote there that was a translation from an aided?


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[Assistant] I'll find it for ya. I'll find it for ya. Something about like, scrying the edge of the Iceland or something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like as a whole they're just sort of, uh, uhm, don't cry cause they're gone. Smile cause they're gone. Smile because Daedric loving, enslaving elves.


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[Assistant] It gets better halfway, like I'd watch the next season.


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[Assistant] It's pretty much covered, like, there's, you know, the lore behind, like, there's some people asking for, like, specific, like, what's the lore behind the Valor Stones, the Welkin Stoads, and the Alid Wells? Well, it's like, pretty much they used meteoric iron to build these Alid Wells, which could absorb


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[Assistant] Magically from the, from the uhm, sun and stars, like the light, like there is no...


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[Assistant] There's, there's nothing really else to say, like, about them, and then they used these little cheat codes called welcome stones and vial of stones just to restore their, uhm, their weapons and their...


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[Assistant] It is interesting that the Vala Stones do, it's, cause the Vala Stones are a little bit different in the way that we don't quite understand it, cause traditionally enchantments we only use like they're powered by souls, but Vala Stones are using just light, like that's a pretty, um,


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[Assistant] I can throw another little fun fact out there is, uh, they have their own language, A-Ladoon, if anyone was interested. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they pretty much all are except Hissed, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they look, they all look similar when you look at the alphabets. Yeah, just Hissed. But, the interesting thing though, is there, is uhm, A La Doon is one of the only


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[Assistant] I had a, I mean, this is according to like multiple breakdowns and stuff, but, um, also like obviously Nidic, so a mix of Nidic, Aelodune, Nordic, and then there's also some Akaviri influence because of the Second Era.


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[Assistant] Another little piece about Umeril, and this is kind of talking about Aldmeris.


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[Assistant] Uh, unfeathered wings broken off with sword strokes delivered while Pelennil stood frothing above him, insulting his ancestry and anyone else that took ship from old Elnife, which is Aldmeris, which is the name of Aldmeris. Uhm, and that angered the other Elvish kings and drove them to a madness of their own. But that's a kind of like, interesting kind of thing, like insulting them for leaving Aldmeris?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, Palinol himself was a, uhm, is said to be a few different people. Well, that's that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm just, I mean, I think we're pretty much done, but I'm just trying to think of anything that we've, like, missed or we've...


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[Assistant] Cause yea, there just isn't as much as we wish we could tell you.


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[Assistant] Like we covered the, the viola stones and the, all that stuff. We covered the elements.


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[Assistant] We covered the flesh sculptures and art torches. Oh, the other thing I guess is, uhm, and once again, it's varying stories on the origin of the Amulet of Kings, the Kimmel Adabal.


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[Assistant] The, the stone was said to be the crystallized blood of the heart of Lorcan and they made that into the tower's founding stone for the White Gold Tower.


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[Assistant] But, you know, there's also their little ten ancestors, the statues sacred to the alyds that you went around collecting for that bloke in Oblivion. That bloke. Ah, yeah, I don't, I don't think, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, actually let us, do let us know what you do want to see topics on next, like,


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[Assistant] We might actually try next time to pick a topic with like a little bit more of like a subjective interpretation or like, like deeper discussion, you know what I mean? Just because like,


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[Assistant] The ailids are actually kind of rather just, they are what they are. There isn't really, and there is no like, it's not like the Dwemer where there's like, ooh, how did they disappear? Like all this stuff, there's, you know what I mean? It's just, they just died out. That's about it. But yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for watching, and uh, we'll be back to nerd out with you again, next time.


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[Assistant] But people outgrow stuff. It could have been bad then, and she's grown out of it after a while and just thought to herself, maturity.


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[Assistant] So are you trying to say that some men don't have small manhood?


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[Assistant] There's something you said that struck me and is very commendable. You said that your wife


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[Assistant] So they're like, oh my god, let her.


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[Assistant] If you see for me, I mean I start to be creative, I'm not be man, but I think that body language is the thing. Because me, if I know like you from day one, you will know.


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[Assistant] How is having multiple sexual partners less stressful?


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[Assistant] It's okay, it's okay, it's okay my brother, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.


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[Assistant] It's funny, you were talking about Confidence and uh, Sonic and Zelda and the thing that I felt immediately from Street Fighter. I played for...


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[Assistant] I've been, I've been saying four hours a lot. I think it's maybe like closer to three, but it also could be 10 depending on like my brain. I think the immediate thing that I got out of it was it's, they're confident. They get this. Uhm, Street Fighter V, I'm sure Gerard, you can talk about it as well. Like it looked like a confidently delivered game.


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[Assistant] They did just enough to get it into a playable experience that most people who don't have a lot of


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[Assistant] Overall, right, like the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way it plays. And I think that the thing that for me is most, uh, uh, kind of like a good sign about it is.


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[Assistant] I don't know how it all works. I'm not 100% sure how everything functions. When I played 5, I was like...


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[Assistant] It was like, there was not enough pieces for me to be confused about how it all fits together. It was like, this clicks into this, this clicks into this, and then this clicks into this. And that's it. And with a fighting game, that just means


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[Assistant] It's predictable, it's rigid, it only works in one way. Whereas Street Fighter 6, I played it, I'm still figuring out how one thing, like someone asked me if it had one frame links in it the other day.


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[Assistant] There's, there's too much cooldown on one and start up on the other to combo. However, there's usually something where you have a single frame in between those two moves that you can use if you land it in the perfect frame, one frame.


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[Assistant] Because I didn't try and do that because I've been playing five for so long where it doesn't have any of that, like, and it's boring because of it. The last time they did that was four and it was like, that was where, that was the thing that allowed you to elevate your play and it would have made it more interesting because then when someone was, when you were watching someone play competitively and you saw that


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[Assistant] I did an interview with the director and the producer and I talked a bit about that and obviously they didn't, they were a bit cagey around it, but I think the interesting thing about


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[Assistant] The adventure mode is the actual name of it. It's called world tour mode. And uhm, I think that's interesting because it's not a name that you pull out willy nilly and put into a street fighter game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, without kind of really understanding the implications of it. Because there was one other game, Street Fighter Zero slash Alpha Three, depending on where you played it, had a mode called World Tour mode. And that mode was like, it was just in that one game. It's not been used anywhere else. And that was made up of, you pick a character and then that character is your kind of main.


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[Assistant] But the important thing about it was it's a journey, it was all menu based, like you would move around the map via menus, but important thing was you were travelling the world. Everything we've seen so far has all been in Metro City. And so I said to them, like, why have you called it world tour mode when everything we've seen is in Metro City?


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[Assistant] We'll talk about this again, uh, we'll talk about this stuff in the future maybe, but like I'm expecting, uh, if I'm like really speculating, I'm expecting loads of locations. I expect we're going to Metro City is just a small of it. And if you look at the fidelity of stuff in Metro City, it looks at times not great.


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[Assistant] I looked at it and I was like the only reason that would be like that is if it's not a place that you spend a lot of time at.


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[Assistant] Like really scrutinizing, it's not like a Arkham City or something like that where you're supposed to really like...


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[Assistant] And the way they talked about that single player mode was they want that to be kind of also a training mode, where it's like people like Ralph can jump in and they can jump in and be like, I mean, I mean like jump in and be like,


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[Assistant] Play the game, understand the mechanics against these AI characters that are not ruthless immediately, uhm, and then that kind of serves as a gateway to like playing, you know, with your friends, which hopefully you develop some proficiency to play and then, you know, the world is your oyster from that point on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they have the, they sell kind of a like, uh, the taunt system, but they also have the tech and slowdown mode. So like when you're under a certain amount of health, like when you, when there's about to be the decisive blow happening, like it will zoom in and everything will slow down and you get to watch to see.


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[Assistant] In old fighting games, like there was one block animation, regardless of where you hit, it was the same animation. But now it's like if you're going low, like your character will have a low block animation, a mid block animation, a high block animation. It's a really cool like thing where, uh,


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[Assistant] Get into all of this shit. And that kind of, that swagger carries through to everything. Like it's, and the best, I think the most


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[Assistant] Well, the thing that gives me the most confidence is what you guys said with Zelda where Nintendo were like, do what you want. It's the opposite of what Capcom are doing. They came out, they showed the game, they let everyone play the game, then they tweeted, alright, we're going in dark for another six months. We'll see you guys later. We'll see everyone later. We've got some work to do.


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[Assistant] Uh, input methods, which I think a lot of people are going to turn their nose up to like, oh, it's shortcuts, but like,


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[Assistant] Firstly, Smash has normalized that. It's like perfectly fine. If you played Capcom vs. SNK, aka to EO on Xbox or Gamecube or whatever it may be, like that had simplified control mechanics. And also the simplified control mechanics in this one is more of a middle ground between something as simple as Smash and the others. So like the way it functions is,


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[Assistant] You press a direction and one specific button and it has a small subset of a character's special moves mapped to those.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's not the entire subset, it's the thing. Uhm, and the rest of the buttons still function as normal, so you can do...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think that really helps take the pressure off execution. Like, cause sometimes you teach someone new that here's the move, quarter circle forward punch does hadouken. You do, they learn how to do it on their own.


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[Assistant] And then the moment they're playing against someone and someone jumps at them, they can't do it because it's the pressure of it. And that's purely it. I think the value in this method is


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[Assistant] It takes the execution off and allows them to understand the mind games and the kind of strategy behind it. So when someone jumps at them, they don't have to think about how do I do this input again? They know uppercut.


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[Assistant] How do I do that up in this spot and do it? And if you're a, if you're a seasoned player, you just take that L because you jumped either way. A good player, a good player would have done the same thing in the same time with the same execution as someone who's shortcutted it. So you were at fault for jumping. That's it. So I think that's going to be an amazing way to bring new people in.


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[Assistant] And build the confidence to the point where hopefully in the same way that, you know,


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[Assistant] I got real comfortable with the strategy and the pacing, and now I'm going to manual execution. And then before you know it, you're a, you're a seasoned fighting game player.


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[Assistant] Somebody say, oh, my weakness is sex. You know, anything in sketch. If I see anyone in sketch, I can't help it. I say, really?


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[Assistant] When you say you are tired, when that snake walked in and said you were tired, no, you were not tired, you were running a script. Because if you were tired, as the snake came in to say, ah, this is my end. The snake has come. I'm tired. Then you should be useless. If you move, there's something inside of you. If you slap your wife.


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[Assistant] And people have traded, they've won so much justice, they have no peace left. A curse in itself.


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[Assistant] If I'm hardworking. Right? And you say I'll be poor. You are wasting your time.


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[Assistant] Right? Where was, I mean, if jazz was jazz, how did the white man get away with slave trade? How did he get away with colonialism? How many should have called his name?


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[Assistant] The new trend of your own choices. To have the attention, resources your individuality deserves. To control your own human experiences. Deal with human experiences. Even if you breathe, you are dead.


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[Assistant] Have this conversation. I'm excited to be here to be in your presence to share time with this great man.


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[Assistant] Think about it. Everybody in jail did a lot of things.


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[Assistant] You know, people say just start, keep moving. But to go to jail, you have to start. So there's no value in starting, except you start with intelligence.


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[Assistant] There's no value in starting, except you start with intelligence. There must be science and protocol to starting.


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[Assistant] People say, oh, you know, keep moving, move. So there is motion.


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[Assistant] So I can be in motion, but I'm not going anywhere. If I start jumping now.


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[Assistant] I'm in motion, I'm doing a lot, right? I'm sweating, I'm burning energy, but I'm not going anywhere. Then I choose to go, but where am I going? Right? So motion movement in the right direction, that requires a different type of intelligence. I don't think anybody is born to hustle. And let me say this.


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[Assistant] There is a part of you, now, hustle is a big world in pop culture. People use it all day.


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[Assistant] Of the compromises that it make in the name of hustle.


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[Assistant] Hustle has come to mean do whatever it takes. Do whatever you have to do.


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[Assistant] Part of what you know, you started very well by talking about rules.


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[Assistant] That rule in, trying to keep rules in itself can be a challenge. I believe that zero is not nothing. Empty is not useless. Zero is a lot. And people start everything from zero.


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[Assistant] To understand this very well, there are two types of thinking.


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[Assistant] For people to understand this awesome thing, there is a zero to one type of thinking. That's the energy of invention. Meaning that there's nothing on ground.


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[Assistant] Then there is one to infinity type of thinking, meaning that something has to be on ground.


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[Assistant] Before you can create more. That is the energy of innovation.


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[Assistant] Most people function between 1 to infinity.


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[Assistant] Meaning somebody has to call it short before they can decide what they want to do.


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[Assistant] Somebody has to make a rule. Some years ago, somebody said that we should apply for a coaching, you know, function in a company. Which my company did. Then they asked us to submit some.


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[Assistant] So I asked the person, I said, sorry, when you talk about this coaching thing, the first person that satisfied people, who satisfied him?


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[Assistant] The first person that said, okay, this is coaching and this is how it's going to be. Where did they get it from?


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[Assistant] Where it got it from, that's where I live in. That is where I think from.


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[Assistant] Find it very difficult to come into that kind of power.


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[Assistant] A power where you are creating, you are driving your action away from what, because anything a human being creates is open for disruption.


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[Assistant] Anything created by another human being has a loophole inside it, is incomplete, and cannot be at best with functioning this season. It's going to expire at some point.


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[Assistant] Now the energy of the majority, right, is locked inside that idea called hustling. So what do I say to people? I say don't hustle, position.


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[Assistant] You don't, you don't pursue your dreams. You position for your dreams.


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[Assistant] You don't pursue your dreams. No, you don't. Everybody say pursue your dream. You know, you have pursued. You don't pursue dreams. Dreams are not designed to be pursued. As a matter of fact, dreams are designed to gravitate towards you.


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[Assistant] This is what is happening. Your dreams are looking for you.


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[Assistant] You are looking for the dream. So you are missing each other for 30 years, for 40 years.


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[Assistant] If you position for your dreams, when they say networking for example,


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[Assistant] Meeting people, because everything in life comes down to three things. People, places and events.


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[Assistant] That's life. People, places and events. When death is sure, retirement is guaranteed.


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[Assistant] The weight of your legacy are all proportional to what you did with three things.


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[Assistant] The geographies you allowed yourself to see are the ones you refuse to see.


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[Assistant] The events that is the moments you prioritize and the one you de-prioritize. That's life.


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[Assistant] You will never have enough quality in your life more than those three things. In fact, when people come to me to say they are struggling, that's the beginning of my analysis. How are you, how are you managing people, places and moments?


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[Assistant] Guessing and assumption are the same thing. They are the lowest level of knowledge. Precision, right, requires mastery.


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[Assistant] When you don't know, you guess. When you don't know, you assume. Right? And you pretty much group all through life. So when you are doing trial and error, you're moving, you are getting up early in the morning. Do you know that there was a time in the human experience where there was no two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock?


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[Assistant] Time is oppressive on two levels. Time is oppressive. First of all, think about it. You can't manage time. Everybody says time management, time management. How are you managing time? How? Anything that can be managed. Think about the word management. Anything that can be managed must have the capacity


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[Assistant] To increase or decrease. To stop also. To stop or to move. To appreciate or to depreciate. Yes. Right?


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[Assistant] So management is the gap between appreciation or depreciation, between increase and decrease. So if I give you a shoe now.


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[Assistant] So if the thing has no potential for appreciation or depreciation, management is useless. Hmm, time doesn't have that. You don't waste time, you waste your life.


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[Assistant] Fools have 24 hours. The wise don't have 25.2.


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[Assistant] Everybody has 24 hours. 24 hours is what everybody's going to do it. Standard. So, and no matter how, what you do with 24 hours today, you are waking up tomorrow with a brand new 24.


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[Assistant] You don't ever waste time. You can manage time.


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[Assistant] Time as a quantity cannot be managed. The same time you had when you were one is the same time you will have when you are a hundred.


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[Assistant] Right? What you don't have again at your 100 is energy. Now energy, if you understand that, can be managed. Energy can be managed. You can take from tomorrow's energy and burn it today. You can take from today's energy and throw it to the future. That's called savings. So you can see a 25 year old looking 44. He has taken a lot of energy in the future and burn them today. You see a 44 year old looking 59.


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[Assistant] Because he has taken from today's energy and kept them in the future. The whole concept of savings is the ability to trap value and put it in the future. Right?


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[Assistant] So energy is what you can manage. You can waste energy. You can, you can.


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[Assistant] Control energy, you can make it appreciate, you can make it depreciate. So when you now think energy management.


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[Assistant] Because it has a lifespan. Time is infinite. It will never expire. Energy has a lifespan.


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[Assistant] So the meaning of that. So while time is a constant, right? Time is a constant. So I don't try to manage time. I try to, and can I shock you? Nobody does. Let's start with you. If you keep to time all the time,


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[Assistant] If your life has momentum, you will apologize. You will run late.


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[Assistant] If you are really engaged, you'll miss an appointment. You will manage them, right?


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[Assistant] So if you keep to time, the reason why you will never apologize is because you are not doing anything.


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[Assistant] If you are doing stuff, there is no way you are going to be, you are not going to have to run late. So, a very, a somebody who keeps to time every time, never late, never say sorry, never apologize, never needs to manage anything, is a life without momentum and that life is a poor life.


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[Assistant] It'll be successful a lot of times, but because it's a human being.


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[Assistant] There are unplanned interruptions in the human condition you couldn't have prepared for.


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[Assistant] And so a time will come where you are not in control of the dynamics. Right?


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[Assistant] And maybe there's an accident on the way. Maybe there's traffic on the way. You've done your best.


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[Assistant] To really live, and I pray that our conversation gets there, to really live powerfully in this world.


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[Assistant] You have to be mature to understand the beauty and the wisdom of imperfection.


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[Assistant] And you have to know that you are living in a flawed world on many levels. And you can't be perfect. Neither will anyone be. If you insist that only through perfect behavior will you have peace, you will never have peace.


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[Assistant] The reason why people are struggling in marriages, essentially, is because they insist on perfect behavior. It took me about seven years of marriage to realize that I'd rather be at peace than be right. Because every time you fight for your justice, you trade your peace for it.


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[Assistant] Every time you win that battle for justice, you trade your peace for it.


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[Assistant] And people have traded, they've won so much justice, they have no peace left.


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[Assistant] You have to come to life to understand that profit and loss are the same. Success and failure are the same. The opposite of success is not failure.


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[Assistant] The opposite of success is death. I'm going to come into all of this. The opposite of success is not failure.


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[Assistant] Yes, they are trying to be true to time.


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[Assistant] And so they are in the jail of time.


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[Assistant] And when you are in the jail of time, hustling is your mantra. You are going to walk all day by


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[Assistant] Standards you really cannot keep as a human being. Now somebody gave me a call one time, a very, my childhood friend. Got on the call, got me finally and said, hey, you have, you have become very arrogant. We call you, you don't pee.


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[Assistant] And he came with a lot of energy. He was kind of trying to really harass me. So I gave it back to him. I said, can I be honest with you? He said yes. I don't miss you.


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[Assistant] You see, it's not that I don't want to call you. I'm not aware that you exist. It's not in my consciousness. I say, and I say, you need to understand this. Now, in this life, you'll be food to somebody and somebody will be food to you.


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[Assistant] The humility to understand, the humility to understand that.


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[Assistant] You will be food to somebody and somebody will be food to you. It's very important.


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[Assistant] Food has never put an application for people to apply. Food doesn't say I'm here, who wants to eat me, please apply, come and eat me, I want it. Anyone that needs food must understand that I'm hungry, my only solution is to eat.


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[Assistant] And when you are food to someone, they need the humility to know that you are food to them and they should find you. Now you, somebody is food to you. That is the person you are born to connect with.


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[Assistant] As long as you keep connecting to those who have food to you, those who you have food to will find you. That's my food theory.


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[Assistant] Now, people complain because they refuse to see you as food. And so they want you to come and look for them. Right?


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[Assistant] If you stop chasing your own food in that sense, and you turn to them to attend to them.


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[Assistant] They will eat you for a while, but if you keep eating the same thing you become nauseous. Right?


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[Assistant] So they can't eat you again. The person you didn't go for, they will abandon you and go for the person.


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[Assistant] Your only sharpness to be able to navigate your continuous relevance and continued existence is to focus on your food and keep eating. Let all those who you have food to come after you. Somebody called me the other day and said, you didn't call me on my bed. I said, why should I call you on your bed? Do you know how many people are in this world? Why should I call you on your bed? Do you know people who don't call me on my bed? I can't.


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[Assistant] Did you call me? I didn't pick. I told that my friend. You said, you know, I don't call you. Did you call me? So it's the force to complain. Did you call me? Did you come to my house? Did you try to see me?


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[Assistant] What did you do? You just believed that because we have some all time connection, where we have an all time connection, but our responsibilities are now different.


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[Assistant] And if you sleep for four hours, nothing's going to happen to you.


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[Assistant] If I sleep like that, some people will not, some people can go to jail.


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[Assistant] The premium on my time is not the premium on your time. If you don't have the humility to understand that we don't do the same thing and for some reason, I'm not even judging you for it. Let's call it providence. For some reason we work different parts and we are on different places in life.


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[Assistant] So this is the idea, this is the idea. Whether we like it or not, you know, when I was much younger, I used to think that I have to do something wrong for people to be offended. So when people get offended around me, my default is what did I do?


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[Assistant] I'm 53 now. 10 years, 5 times. Right? I can't BBC to myself for the rest of my life.


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[Assistant] Jesus didn't do anything wrong, right? And he was beefed, killed for doing nothing wrong.


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[Assistant] Right? You come to a place where your maturity has to wake you up to your own essence as a human being. And when you come to that place, your power is...


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[Assistant] Whatever happens after best effort is the will of God.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna take you, my dear. Two, your positioning is to be clear about the wisdom to know what is important at every point in time.


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[Assistant] And to have the courage to watch other things undone. The wisdom to always know what is important.


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[Assistant] Because you will never do all that you want to do. Never. You will only do all that you can do. Once you understand that you are managing energy.


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[Assistant] Once you are managing energy that has a lifespan, there must be a skill of preference.


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[Assistant] On limited things to do, limited energy is what can do it. So you have a scale of preference, basic economics. Scale of preference. On that scale of preference, you need choice. You need to choose the things you are going to focus on. For every choice you make, there's an alternative for gone.


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[Assistant] The problem with people is they want to make a choice without forgoing anything.


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[Assistant] Right? The more choices you have to make, the more you have to watch some things undone because there is a compromise for every choice you make.


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[Assistant] So, once you are making choices, you are creating alternative for gone, and that is what is called opportunity cost.


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[Assistant] That's the cost of that opportunity. The idea that your choices are birthing alternatives for gone. That's alternative for gone. Human beings will be there. Things will be there. Your personal things will be there. Friends will be there. Right? Family will be there.


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[Assistant] Right? But there will always be alternative for gone. That is life. There's nobody that will get wiser above that. There's no intelligence away from that. No matter how old you get, no matter how much education you acquire, you are going to submit to that protocol.


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[Assistant] Therefore, the only positioning you can have is


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[Assistant] The wisdom to know what is important. And the courage. It takes courage. The courage to insist on your freedom.


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[Assistant] I call freedom credible, independent action. CIA. The ability to take credible, independent action. It may fail the test of popularity, but it will pass the test of essence.


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[Assistant] This is where the game changes. Nobody commits suicide outside this place. This is where you lose.


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[Assistant] You can win all the battles out there. Billionaires have killed themselves. They passed all the battles. They passed all the tests. They failed. That was essence. Comes down to here.


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[Assistant] If you pass the test here, you can control your outer rules from there. If you pass the test of your outer rules and fail that of your inner rule, you fail in everything.


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[Assistant] So the thinking is the wisdom to know what is important, the courage to watch other things undone.


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[Assistant] Well, I won't use the word care. It's not that you don't care.


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[Assistant] So what is empathy? People think empathy is sentiment. Empathy is emotion. Empathy is the ability to abandon my position.


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[Assistant] I abandon my position. I come into your head and take a space there. Experience your world to know exactly what is there.


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[Assistant] Now the decision I would take, I can come into your world and understand your situation more than you do. That is why a doctor listens to you.


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[Assistant] And then when it's listening to you, it's entering your head. It's getting into your own space.


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[Assistant] But he has come into your world and he has understood your world more than you do.


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[Assistant] And he's now giving you prescription based on his understanding, right?


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[Assistant] So, you may not like the prescription, but it is what has to be done. It's easier to trust a doctor.


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[Assistant] When that is coming from your friend, or from your wife, or from your husband, or from your neighbor, gets a bit more complex. So I won't use the word care, but empathy.


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[Assistant] I come into your world, I understand exactly where you are, and I know what I don't have to do and what I have to do, regardless of what you want me to do.


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[Assistant] So we have to understand these things because, you know, common knowledge is out there, you know. Any fool can wake up.


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[Assistant] You don't need wisdom to wake up. You don't need format training to know how to get angry.


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[Assistant] Those are, you know, common rigidness of the human condition. Those things will happen to you no matter, right?


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[Assistant] So, the real knowledge that are advancing, that are liberating, are rare.


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[Assistant] We are intentionally coming into zones, like you said, breaking those rules, right? So I'll say this freely that in practical terms there's nothing called future.


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[Assistant] You have never been in the future before. There's no such thing called future. Right? So when you say good morning, you are in the morning.


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[Assistant] It's kinetic energy. You can feel it. You know you are in the morning. When you are in the afternoon and you say good afternoon, it's hot. Everywhere is warm. You know I'm in the afternoon. You're not saying it by faith.


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[Assistant] When you say good night, everywhere is dark. When you say...


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[Assistant] Like you say good evening. Or good past. You say good, good, good past. You can even say, I've been in the past. You can say, oh, my past was great or my past was bad. But you will never have the misfortune or blessing of saying, good future, hey, like you say good morning, say good future. No, you will never do that.


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[Assistant] You don't stay in the future. You will never stay in the future. Like you stay in the morning. Like you stay in an afternoon or in an evening.


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[Assistant] Except that you go and look at all of those things we mentioned. Morning, afternoon, evening, night. They are all still one day. Still a day.


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[Assistant] It is God's arrangement to keep you driven today. To keep you enthusiastic, optimistic, to keep your environment meaningful.


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[Assistant] In practical terms, you will never be in the future. Today was once a future.


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[Assistant] Every time you arrive, when you arrive in 2046, it's going to be today. You're not going to say 2046, wow, we have that. Do you know when Charlie Boy released 1990?


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[Assistant] Space 1999, every kid in Nigeria at 5 o'clock, they are sitting down to come and watch Space 1999 in the 80s, right? 1999 is how many years ago now?


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[Assistant] That used to be science fiction. Yes. The movie was science fiction. Then, imagine in 1999. We are now in 2024, right?


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[Assistant] When we get there, we're going to call it a day, right? You know, so, let us, let's come off that, you know, technicalities.


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[Assistant] The next one second, the next five seconds is the future. Let's go there. One, two, three, four, five. We are in the future.


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[Assistant] Right? We are in the future. So today was once a future. But every time you arrive in the future, you call it only two things. Moment now or today. Both of them are today. Right? So today is the critical connection for every meaning. Today is the critical connection for every meaning.


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[Assistant] Today, yesterday is an experience, tomorrow is nothing but an idea, today is the critical connection for everything. So when people say they had a great life, you know, he's 85, he had a great life, it's somebody who lived each day well. So it comes down to each day.


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[Assistant] People look at time like 10 years from now is different from today. Today is different from 13 years ago. Now listen to this. Every day you live successfully, you create a new past.


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[Assistant] People worry about their past, oh, I've done this, I had a terrible past, you know. Uhm, I spent 12 years in the university studying a four-year course.


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[Assistant] I've tasted everything from chewing gum to cocaine. I mean, I've been stupid.


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[Assistant] Right? When I was on campus, my nuisance value was very high. I was a virus. Right? I was in the cold. It was terrible. Right?


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[Assistant] So I didn't graduate. By the time I got to 400 level, which was supposed to be final year, I had about 52 carryovers. So I wasn't going anywhere. My mom used to call me Metusela.


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[Assistant] She was sure I would be in school forever. Right? She was so sure. But that past, nobody can look at it, and look at me today and connect it. So people, I don't care how messed up the past is, if you master the science of today, every right decision you make,


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[Assistant] And those decisions are taken either with insight or weakness. Insight is power, right? And sight is suspect.


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[Assistant] Because hindsight is drawing from yesterday and it has its limitation. So why do you think Range Rover is powerful?


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[Assistant] Why do you, why do you say, wow, look at this Rolls Royce, what a car, oh look at this girl, oh my god, when am I going to marry this? You know, why are things so powerful in the present? You know why? Because you cannot live in what I call deep time. You are living in the jail of time.


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[Assistant] The same Range Rover, if you go to 15 years from now, it will look like a coffin.


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[Assistant] Right? It should look like, what is this? So.


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[Assistant] So the reason why God is God and nothing moves Him is because He's the same yesterday, today and forever.


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[Assistant] It means that when God sees a shoe today, it's not just seeing the shoe you are giving him today.


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[Assistant] So, 25 years from now, it's not a shoe.


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[Assistant] And you shouldn't plan too much for tomorrow. I don't believe in savings.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. See, when you save, you are betting against inflation.


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[Assistant] Right? If you save 10 Naira today, 3 years time, your 10 Naira will still be there, right?


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[Assistant] But the value is off. But it's like 8 naira now. Or far less. Or far less. Even though you see 10 naira. Right? So s- Maybe if you put the savings in gold. Yes, except in gold.


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[Assistant] Even realize that, yeaah, but think about it. Depending on the objective.


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[Assistant] You are hoping somebody will buy that house. Somebody may not buy that house until another five years. So what happens to your emergency?


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[Assistant] Right? And I'm not saying don't buy a house. Right? I'm not saying so. But I'm saying, and I'm not even saying don't save.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying that, you know, the meanings in life are deeper than that. Right? And I'll tell you what we should do. I believe more in investment, because when you invest, you are betting against possibilities.


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[Assistant] As in against inflation. But both of them have their limits because a lot of what we call hustling is a fight for profit against loss.


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[Assistant] In my world profit and loss are the same. The difference between profit and loss is time.


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[Assistant] There is nothing you lose that doesn't go into your future to multiply.


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[Assistant] You may not have that knowledge, that is not my fault. Those who have that knowledge are not moved by immediate loss because they know that immediate loss births a new type of awareness and positioning that will deliver on hunger, that will deliver on its value in time.


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[Assistant] So, you see a glass cup. This glass cup was once sand.


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[Assistant] Right? Before it, it's heated sand that becomes glass. Right? So when you're looking at that cup, look at the cup when it was sand.


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[Assistant] To know it was nothing to you, to think anybody at that time wasn't attractive. Then it became a cop, anybody wants to die for it. In the next 10 years or two weeks, somebody's going to break it.


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[Assistant] When you see that it gives you a different type of positioning


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[Assistant] You see a Range Rover or a Lamborghini. It looks beautiful. You know that in 20 years time. Nobody will look at this car twice.


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[Assistant] That is true for the car. It's true for the business.


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[Assistant] Everything in the hand of a human being will aspire, right? So once you understand that, what kind of person ought you to be?


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[Assistant] Right? So there are, there's that dimension of peace that he's creating without even knowing. Each time he's asking those questions. That dimension of peace. By the time you get close to him, as he's thinking like that, alone, you can begin to understand even some of the results he's getting.


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[Assistant] Because there's a composure. So when, when life comes against you, your first level of strength is composure. It's not action. It's composure. Being able to take it, you know what I call it? Feedback from the future. Yes. Anything you are experiencing is feedback from the future. Because whatever they do to you, you are going to face the future with that. And don't forget that that future when it comes is going to be just another day.


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[Assistant] Do you understand? So, how can you live in deep time? You don't compete with people because you know...


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[Assistant] Things will change. Obviously. This is not even my permanent state. Obviously. Do you understand? So can you live, now there's a lot of teaching in that, this is not where we are going to do that, but you have to find the maturity, right, to live in deep time.


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[Assistant] And deep time allows you to see the value of a thing in the present, in the past, and in the future.


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[Assistant] So that when you see a 6-8, a lady that is 22, she looks so beautiful. She's gonna be 69.


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[Assistant] She's going to have wrinkles, her teeth are going to drop, you know. Her muscles will be weakened. You know, you go, you know, when you look at life from that angle, it's, you know, it changes everything. And it allows you to, you know, one of the places I honor a lot in life is the grave. So there are some geographies I don't take for granted. And when I find young people who are struggling, there are three places I must guide them to see. Once they understand the economy of the prison,


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[Assistant] It's only like you came before me. You buried me with gold. Move. You know, I came here before you. It's only like that.


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[Assistant] In the grave, there's no rank. Everybody's the same, right? So, the economy of the grave, the economy of the mortuary.


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[Assistant] You see a beautiful girl in the mortuary. When they come to, she can't say, boys are here, cover my body, cover my body. It's only like that. Everything is defenseless and naked in the mortuary. And a lot of youthful exuberance is the unawareness of these blocks of understanding.


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[Assistant] Right? And it's fine when young people struggle with that. The tragedy.


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[Assistant] of modern, modern life is that adults don't understand that as well.


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[Assistant] So the moment you understand that, you understand that wow, zero is a lot.


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[Assistant] Zero is a lot because all of us are coming there because we are all going to die. True.


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[Assistant] You understand? And everything has a lifespan, therefore. So, once you get that, then you say, okay, how do you zone into imperfection?


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[Assistant] So, if today can be perfect, tomorrow will be unnecessary. Right? Completely unnecessary.


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[Assistant] The only reason why all of us are even doing one more thing, what's one more thing that we're doing is because we can, we can impact on our experiences tomorrow, right? The imperfections of today is the relevance of tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow's people will only find continuity and engagement because of the imperfection of today.


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[Assistant] If today can be perfect, tomorrow's people will have nothing to do.