Video yükleniyor...

Video Yüklenemedi

Ana Sayfaya Dön

Early Practice Post/Perimeter Shot Creation, Shot Making when driving angles are cut off. Can you still get to you scoring spots and convert? Corner Spot Ups - Attacking Middle Gaps - 1 Foot Finishes - 2 Foot Finishes - 2 Foot Fade - Rip, COD, Downhill Finish - Rip...

57,310 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce •via X (Twitter)

2 Yorum

FRANCISCO ROJAS profil fotoğrafı
FRANCISCO ROJAS1 yıl önce

amazing stuff!!!

Clean Sheets profil fotoğrafı
Clean Sheets1 yıl önce

Looking for the edge this Premier League season? We’ve got you covered! Get detailed insights into every match with our easy-to-read Clean Sheets. ⚽📊 Visit to stay ahead of the game!

Benzer Videolar

Every night as a kid, Kobe Bryant fell asleep visualizing basketball. He’d see himself scoring 10 straight. Then 20. Then 30. “But in the dream, why would you ever interrupt that?” “So you keep dreaming.” “Before I go to sleep, I’m at 120 points.” In 2006, he scored 81. Kobe spent an hour at USC explaining what Mamba Mentality really means: He was born to play. "I started playing at like 2 years old." "My father wasn't one of these fathers that was like: you're going to play basketball. It was just I was around the game a lot and I gravitated to the ball." "I was completely geeking out about the smell of the ball. The way it sounds when it hits concrete versus how it hits a parquet floor." "The sound of the nets. The different material of the nets." "There's certain basketball hoops where the rim sits slightly above the backboard. I was geeking out if I got into a gym where they were completely parallel." "Little shit like that would freak me out." "To answer your question, I was born to do this thing, man. And I did it non-stop all day long from the age of 2 to when I retired." He explains how to know if you've found your thing. "That's the trick, isn't it? Finding what you love to do." "We talk about hard work all the time. And it's like, if you got to get up every single morning and remind yourself how hard you need to work, you probably need to choose a different profession." "That shouldn't be there." "I wake up in the morning excited to get to it. If I'm not training, I'm missing it. If I'm not watching a game of basketball, I miss it." "There's no place I'd rather be." "If you have that feeling, then you're truly doing what God has put you on this earth to do." He explains the 81-point game. "When you grow up downloading that into your brain over and over and over..." "That summer, I made 1000 shots a day. 1000. On top of weight training and conditioning." "And they weren't just shots. They were shots that you saw in that game." "Coming out of the corner. Going to the pinch post. Footwork in the post. Coming off the screen." "It was very specific." "So when you download that into your system and you go out on the court, you're just executing things that you've done thousands of times before." "And you have that dream." "Then that becomes possible." He explains why he doesn't reinvent. "Everything's been not choreographed, but it's been practiced so many times that it's second nature." "Why reinvent it?" "I don't understand that. You go out and play the game and you're just trying to create something new. No." "This is what I do. This is what I do extremely well." "You're going to have to stop me from doing that. And if you do stop me from doing that, I have a counter to that." "Done." He explains the pain. "To be honest, I wasn't even thinking about the game." "My knee was hurting so much. I didn't know then, but I had a flap of cartilage stuck in my joint line." "My mind was really trying to go to a place where I don't feel that pain." "The game started. And because of that, I was just in a different space." "I wasn't worried about what was to come. I wasn't worried about what just happened. I was just here." "When you're just there in the moment, your focus is heightened because nothing else matters." Pete Carroll asked the hard question. "What was it like for you to play with people that weren't as gritty as you were?" Kobe's response. "I'd kill them. I'd bury them." "The kind of culture that the Laker organization stood for, winning championships, is not tolerated." "You're going to show up to play. And you're going to lollygag through this scrimmage, through this drill? I'm going to beat you." "I'm going to let you know I beat you." "I'm going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice." "People will say: okay, that doesn't make a great teammate." "Well, I'm not here to be a great teammate. I'm here to help you win championships." "So it's different." He explains practice. "As a leader of a team, it's your responsibility to elevate the rest of the guys." "What people tend to get stuck on is saying: the way to make players better is to pass them the ball when they're open." "That's a very trivial way to look at things." "You have to get them emotionally to want to be better. You have to get them to an emotional space where they wake up every morning driven to be the best version of themselves." "How do you do that?" "In practice for me, it was a chance to drive them, to challenge them." "You have to know your teammates. Because then you know what nerve to touch." "Some guys, it's like: okay, come on, we can do this. That'll get them going." "Other guys, no. You got to figure out what button to push." He gives an example. "Pau was always Spain." "If I tell him how they lost in the gold medal to us and how they're going to lose again, how I'm going to beat your ass in practice just like I beat you in the gold medal game." "Oh. He would hate that. He would hate that." "But that's what practice was. You have to drive them." "If practice is more intense and harder than a game seven will be, then a game seven will be easy." "But if it's not, then that's when teams start folding and capitulating." He explains standards. "If I got to fight to get you in the gym, that's a problem. That's a problem." "You want players that are gym rats. Players that want to be in the gym, that want to work." "Then from there, you build on top of that." "But if you're lazy, man, I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to deal with you. You make me feel dumber." "You're going to lower my level. I don't think so." "You can go over there. There's plenty of teams where you'll fit right in." He explains loyalty. The Lakers offered to trade him to a contending team. His response. "We've known each other for a very long time. I'm questioning myself because I'm wondering what about me makes you think I would jump ship." "We don't do that." "As a leader, you got to be able to take the good with the bad." "You can't just because the ship's sinking all of a sudden jump off and swim to another. You don't do that." "If you can win championships in front of everybody, then you could miss the playoffs in front of everybody." "You got to be able to take both sides of it." "If you're doing something that's easy, you might want to reconsider what you're doing." He explains what he wishes he knew earlier. "Understanding empathy and compassion." "As a young kid when I came in the league, it was like: I'm driving this way and either you're going to be on the train or be on the track." "There was no such thing as understanding that people have lives outside of the game. Which apparently I did not." "If I understood that at an early age, then it helps me as a leader to communicate better." "Getting to know people on a personal level. What are their fears. What are their insecurities. What are their dreams and ambitions." "When you come to understand that about a person, then you can help them reach the best version of themselves." "I wish I'd known that earlier." He explains how he teaches his daughter. "My daughter said: Dad, can you teach me how to play basketball? I want to be better than you." "All right, cool. Let's start with 15 minutes a day." "For 15 minutes a day, we just stood right in front of the hoop and just shot. Right under the hoop. We didn't move around. We didn't do any dribbling." "Just 15 minutes a day just shoot here." "You do that for a month and a half. Then next month, you step back. Then next month, you step back again. Then you start working on dribbling." "Through actionable things is how we teach our children." "If it becomes a part of their process in sports, it'll become a part of their process in life as well." He explains dreams. "I just dream. I have dreams." "Dreams should be pure." "A lot of times when we're born into this world, we actually wind up going backwards." "The more we mature, the more responsible our dreams become. The more governors we put on ourselves and our ability to dream and to reimagine." "It's always a fight for us to make sure that our dreams always stay pure." "It's not a matter of pushing beyond your limitations or expectations." "It's really a matter of protecting your dreams. Protecting your imagination." "That's really the key." "When you do that, then the world just seems limitless."

Jaynit

17,383 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

Honkai Star Rail issue TLDR; no real improvements towards the gameplay/TRPG depth itself while continuing to make changes that don't matter 'in the now'. More context; As of the last few patches it's felt like HSR has made 1 step forward & 3 back (Ex. Wishful Resin availability vs impact of the item). With a turn based RPG, I expect more actions to be taken that encourage strategic gameplay, combat/gear choices, or otherwise game defining matters that give the player more satisfaction (of their wins, accomplishments, goal challenges, etc.) in the game. Great examples of this are FF Tactics, Valkyria Chronicles, Octopath Traveler, & any Shin Megami Tensei or Fire Emblem game. I don't have any definite backing behind this, just my own assumptions & experiences, but it feels like HSR has become more greedy than their usual gacha self. A game (that presents itself) based around team structure, archetypes, & decision making has shown a severe lack of these since shortly after Superbreak's introduction. The lack of STRONG 4-stars has left many of our viable "teams" lingering on a "play this or bust" situation. Of course, having at least 80% of the limited 5-stars removes this entirely, but that introduces an entirely different subject that still favors my argument in the lack of team variety we have. Ex. The counter-archetype team. There's little to no difference between THE optimal team if you use Yunli or Clara, despite the two of them playing differently w/ different build opportunities. You won't swap support units because they offer a new 'thing' to benefit Yunli/Clara. You will swap units because you don't have the premier one or you don't have the other premier one (i.e Sunday vs Sparkle selection). The enemy design has been decent, with some bosses having amazing potential, but that effort is quickly made irrelevant due to the HP inflation or lack of preventative measures the avg player can take against them (i.e not having shields, cleanse, enhanced breaking, AV control, etc.) By no means is that me alluding to every player deserves every limited thing, but it is me saying there's 0 reason the last 4-star we got was on Sept 9th, and per the drip marketing received, we aren't getting a new one any time soon. On stream, I spoke about how impactful a row system (Persona 1, Unicorn Overlord, Torna DLC for Xenoblade 2, etc.) would be to the strategy behind the game IF they prioritized combat depth instead of selling only selling limited characters. HSR has the potential to really put their foot in the combat strategy and team building of the game, but I don't understand the reason they refuse to do it when they have the means to. This brings me to the greed I believe HSR has displayed lately. There are multiple pts I want to address on this matter, but this tweet is too long & I wanna go play Metaphor so I'll try to emphasize this point a lot stronger. Keep in mind, these items are conceptually of top 3 importance in the game (value wise). * There is 0 reason the bundle of Wishful Resin should cost $35-50 worth of stellar jade bundles instead of a flat price. They are purposely inflating your purchase on an item that, in my opinion, is insanely valuable for every player. * Trading 800 relic remains or Self Modeling Resin for 1 Wishful Resin is a scam. 800 RR = 80 trash relics or 2 +15 relics. Both of which, require you to invest a LOT of resources into in order to obtain them in the first place. * 2 sub-stats should not cost 4 Wishful Resin if 1 sub-stat only cost 1 Wishful Resin. * Receiving ONE WISHFUL RESIN FOR FREE per 40ish days, is INSANE. lol Receiving TWO IF YOU PAY per 40ish days is even more ludicrous. In the event you decided to buy all the Wishful bundles per 40 days & only choose the WR as your option, that's $120 (70 + 50) for 22 WR. Adding the BP into that is now just shy of paying for a limited character. Don't even get me started on how the only available dice in the game is paid for while still having a 75% chance to screw you over in RNG, either. I understand this looks like a giga rant, & it is. It pisses me off watching a game you avidly enjoy make decisions that, I can only assume, are out of pure greed. They could do so much to spin this game into an easy top 5 position with little to similar effort in pushing out stronger characters per $300. Hence, my feeling of being burnt out & even that took me months to understand/realize.

Iyo

135,611 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Kenalin lia hobinya mancing Seedance 2.5 prompt: Reference mode: Use karakter sheet - location 1 - location 2 (image) # Seedance 2.5 — Lia Morning Village Home Video — 30 Seconds FORMAT: Seedance 2.5 image-reference-to-video. Duration: exactly 30 seconds. Aspect ratio: 16:9. Photorealistic animated video from still-image references, rendered as believable live-action documentary footage rather than cartoon or CGI. Two continuous documentary scenes with only one intentional hard cut at approximately 17.5 seconds. REFERENCE ROLES: * gambar 1 = strict identity and appearance reference for LIA. Preserve Lia as the exact same adult woman throughout the entire video: same facial structure, eyes, nose, lips, skin tone, freckles/skin details, body proportions, tied-back dark brown hairstyle with naturally loose strands, earrings, white fitted top, brown patterned wrap skirt/sarong, and white sandals. Do not redesign or beautify her. * gambar 2 = strict environment and architectural reference for SCENE 1 only. Preserve the modest Indonesian house facade, open tiled front terrace, roof shape, terracotta roof feeling, columns, doors, windows, front yard, trees, plants, overhead electrical cables, scale, and spatial layout. Do not copy any character identity from this image. * gambar 3 = strict environment and composition reference for SCENE 2 only. Preserve the narrow asphalt village road, rice-field surroundings, village rooftops, utility lamp poles, tropical vegetation, distant green hill, open blue morning sky, and rural Indonesian spatial feeling. Do not copy character identity from this image. GLOBAL CHARACTER LOCK: Lia must remain visually identical to gambar 1 in both locations. Same face, body proportions, hairstyle, outfit, accessories, skin texture, and footwear. Her clothes should behave like real cotton and woven fabric, slightly worn and everyday rather than glossy or fashion-perfect. Lia's personality is relaxed and naturally playful. When she talks she becomes noticeably more excited and expressive: bright eyes, quick eyebrow lifts, small head tilts, spontaneous smiles and teasing expressions. Natural Indonesian speech with a light authentic Javanese-Indonesian accent, lively and conversational, never theatrical or caricatured. CAMERAMAN: The cameraman is always physically behind the camera and NEVER appears on screen, in reflections, windows, shadows, or background. His voice is recorded naturally from directly behind the camcorder. When the cameraman speaks, Lia does not lip-sync his dialogue. Lia only reacts with natural eye movement, a small smile, breathing, or subtle head movement. Only Lia's own spoken lines animate Lia's lips. VISUAL STYLE: Ultra-realistic documentary realism. Genuine candid behavior. Unscripted everyday slice-of-life feeling. Natural imperfect body language. Deep environmental authenticity of a rural Indonesian morning. The result should feel like a forgotten family home video recorded in Indonesia in the early 2000s: warm, mundane, affectionate, slightly funny, imperfect and deeply believable. Output may be high-resolution / 8K master quality, but the acquisition aesthetic must strongly emulate an early-2000s consumer DV camcorder: warm slightly faded colors, soft contrast, mild sensor noise, subtle digital compression, limited highlight latitude, natural motion blur, very mild rolling shutter, slightly imperfect white balance, no glossy modern HDR, no modern cinematic color grade, no beauty filter, no excessively shallow depth of field. HUMAN-OPERATED CAMERA: Camera movement must feel physically operated by a real friend holding a consumer camcorder. Use: subtle hand tremor, natural breathing drift, slightly imperfect horizon, small delayed reframing, occasional lens breathing, brief autofocus searching caused by subject movement, minor exposure pumping when moving between shade and bright sunlight. Every camera imperfection must have a physical reason. No gimbal stabilization. No drone. No orbit. No crane. No perfect tracking. No dramatic cinematic push-ins. No stylized speed ramp. No artificial cinematic camera choreography. SCENE 1 — TERRACE MORNING, based on gambar 2 00:00–00:02.8 Begin immediately with Lia already seated casually on the front terrace of the house from gambar 2. Use a loose eye-level medium-wide three-quarter shot, as if the cameraman is standing several steps in front of the terrace. Lia sits relaxed on the existing porch seating, shoulders loose, one foot slightly forward. Her LEFT hand naturally holds a simple glass cup of dark morning coffee. Her RIGHT hand holds one lit cigarette between index and middle finger. Keep object ownership consistent: coffee always remains in the left hand until she puts it down, cigarette remains in the right hand until she extinguishes it. A thin natural stream of cigarette smoke rises and bends with the morning air. Lia briefly takes a small sip of coffee, lowers the glass, casually looks toward the cameraman behind the lens and gives a tiny amused smile. Camera is not perfectly centered and slowly drifts a few centimeters while the operator settles his grip. Tropical morning sunlight illuminates the yard while Lia remains partially under terrace shade. Moving leaves create soft shifting dappled shadows. Exposure reacts slightly to the bright yard behind her. 00:02.8–00:04.5 CAMERAMAN speaks from behind the camera, playful and casually surprised: "widiihh lia santai amat" The cameraman remains completely off-screen. While listening, Lia keeps her lips closed except for a tiny amused smile. She glances toward the lens/operator, lightly raises her eyebrows and relaxes the cigarette hand near her knee. 00:04.5–00:09.7 LIA answers, conversational and excited with a natural light Javanese-Indonesian accent: "iya mas pagi hari itu wajib ngopi dan udud kalau ga bisa pusing loh" Accurate Indonesian lip sync ONLY for Lia. She speaks while sitting naturally rather than performing for camera. Small head movement, lively eyebrows, natural blinking, relaxed shoulders. She gestures once gently with the cigarette hand without waving it excessively. Smoke responds naturally to the movement. Toward the end of the sentence she gives a teasing half-smile. After finishing the spoken line, she takes a tiny relaxed breath; do not make her drink while her mouth is actively speaking. The camera operator makes a very small late correction to keep her face centered. Autofocus briefly breathes, then settles back on Lia. 00:09.7–00:11.5 CAMERAMAN asks from behind the camera: "habis udud mau kemana lia?" Lia remains silent while he speaks. No Lia lip-sync. She tilts her head slightly, looks amused and shifts her weight forward as if preparing to get up. 00:11.5–00:14.5 LIA answers with growing excitement and a playful inviting expression: "ayo ikut aku mancing mas mauu?" Accurate lip sync. On "mauu?" she lifts her eyebrows, smiles toward the cameraman and leans forward slightly, inviting him to follow. Keep the delivery spontaneous, like talking to a real friend, not presenting to an audience. 00:14.5–00:17.5 Dialogue pauses. Lia naturally completes the current activity before leaving. First she places the coffee glass down with her LEFT hand on the nearby terrace surface. Then she taps the cigarette once and extinguishes the cigarette completely in a small simple ashtray using her RIGHT hand. The cigarette state changes from LIT to EXTINGUISHED only after visible contact with the ashtray. After this moment there is no new cigarette smoke. She plants both sandal-covered feet firmly, shifts her weight forward, stands with believable human balance, straightens her skirt naturally and takes her first step away. Realistic cloth movement and hair secondary motion. Foley: soft glass contact, small ashtray tap, woven skirt rustle, sandal movement. CUT LOGIC: At approximately 00:17.5, make ONE simple hard cut after Lia has fully stood and started leaving. No transition effect. No dissolve. No montage. SCENE 2 — VILLAGE ROAD WALK, based on gambar 3 00:17.5–00:21.7 Hard cut directly to Lia already walking along the narrow asphalt village road from gambar 3. Camera follows approximately 2–3 meters BEHIND Lia at natural walking height. Medium-wide rear follow framing shows Lia's full walking movement and enough environment to clearly recognize the road, fields, utility poles, rooftops, tropical vegetation and distant green hill. The cameraman walks behind her, producing gentle vertical footstep bob, mild hand tremor and slightly imperfect framing. Lia walks at an unhurried natural pace. Real heel-to-toe steps. No sliding feet. Her patterned woven skirt reacts naturally to each stride. Her tied-back hair and loose strands respond subtly to the breeze. The cameraman occasionally falls a fraction behind, then naturally catches up. Do not turn this into a smooth professional tracking shot. 00:21.7–00:24.2 Without stopping completely, Lia slows slightly and turns her head and upper torso back over her shoulder toward the cameraman. The movement begins with her eyes, then head, then shoulders. Her lower body continues moving forward slowly. Because she unexpectedly turns back, the camera reacts a little late. Framing briefly drifts off-center and autofocus searches for her face for a fraction of a second before locking. LIA speaks toward the cameraman with teasing curiosity: "mas mau tau aku kemana?" Accurate natural lip sync. Excited light Javanese-Indonesian delivery. Playful half-smile. 00:24.2–00:25.4 CAMERAMAN responds from behind the camera: "kemana tuuuuh" He remains completely off-screen. Lia's mouth stops speaking while his line is heard. She keeps looking back with a mischievous expression, suppressing a laugh. Camera continues physically walking behind her with natural small shake. 00:25.4–00:29.2 LIA gives the punchline: "aku mau cari om om loh mas eee" She delivers it playfully and excitedly, building toward the final "eee". Accurate Indonesian lip sync. Immediately after finishing "eee", she bursts into a genuine spontaneous laugh. Her shoulders bounce naturally from laughter. She briefly squints, smiles widely and turns her face partly forward again while still chuckling. The laugh feels uncontrolled and candid, not like scripted acting. The cameraman reacts physically by momentarily losing perfect framing while continuing to walk. The camera dips slightly and catches up again. Do not add any new spoken words. 00:29.2–00:30.0 Lia is still walking and laughing softly. She begins turning her attention forward again while the cameraman follows. The framing drifts slightly toward one side because the operator is walking and laughing/reacting behind the camera. End imperfectly: the recording abruptly cuts to black MID-MOTION at exactly 30 seconds, without a polished ending, fade-out, pose, title or outro. ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHENTICITY: The environment must feel alive but never distract from Lia. SCENE 1 background: subtle tropical leaves moving in morning air, occasional distant motorbike passing outside the main foreground, one distant resident casually sweeping with a traditional broom when composition permits, small household plants moving, occasional water drip, overhead electrical cables, terracotta roofing, weathered concrete, real glass and ceramic surfaces, one cat may briefly react or cross far in the background only if naturally integrated. SCENE 2 background: rice and grasses moving gently in the breeze, distant village activity, occasional far motorbike, subtle birds, coconut or tropical foliage moving, utility poles remaining stable, no crowds, no staged extras. Background activity must continue independently of Lia as if the village exists beyond the scene. LIGHTING: Natural tropical morning light only. SCENE 1: bright morning yard with softer shade beneath the house terrace. Dappled foliage shadows shift subtly. Consumer camcorder exposure pumps very slightly when framing includes more bright yard or shaded Lia. SCENE 2: strong but natural morning daylight matching gambar 3. No artificial key light. No rim-light setup. No cinematic backlighting. Exposure may briefly adjust when Lia's face turns from forward light to backward-facing light. PHYSICAL MATERIAL DETAIL: Real skin texture with pores and tiny imperfections. No plastic skin. White cotton top moves subtly with breathing. Patterned woven skirt has visible fabric weight and folds. Sandals flex naturally at the feet. Concrete and tiled terrace retain worn real-world texture. Coffee is contained inside a real glass with believable reflections. Cigarette paper, ember and ash behave realistically before extinction. Terracotta roofing, asphalt, dry grass and green vegetation retain physically believable texture. AUDIO: Zero music. Zero narration. No voice-over other than the naturally recorded off-screen cameraman dialogue. No added soundtrack. Use authentic layered location sound. SCENE 1 close layer: Lia's clothing rustle, subtle breathing, glass touching the porch/table, small cigarette and ashtray contact, sandals shifting. Medium layer: broom brushing ground, occasional water drip, leaves rustling. Far layer: rooster crow, distant motorcycle, soft rural morning ambience. SCENE 2 close layer: Lia's sandal footsteps on asphalt, woven skirt swish, breathing and genuine laughter. Medium layer: grass and leaves moving in the breeze. Far layer: occasional rooster, distant motorcycle, birds and rural village ambience. Dialogue must remain clearly intelligible but retain realistic camcorder microphone perspective. The cameraman's voice should sound close to the microphone because he is holding the camera. Lia's voice becomes slightly more spatially distant during the rear-follow scene while remaining clear. MOTION QUALITY: Natural human-scale acceleration and deceleration. Stable foot contact. Correct left/right limb ownership. Real body weight and balance. Natural hip and shoulder counter-motion while walking. Believable hair and cloth secondary motion. No floating. No rubber limbs. No foot sliding. No teleporting. No sudden speed changes. CONTINUITY: Lia remains the exact same person from gambar 1 throughout both scenes. Same: face, skin, hair, hairstyle, body proportions, earrings, white top, brown patterned wrap skirt, white sandals. SCENE 1 prop continuity: coffee = left hand until placed down. cigarette = right hand until visibly extinguished. After Lia leaves the terrace: coffee remains behind at the house. cigarette remains extinguished at the house. Neither object appears in Lia's hands on the road. SCENE 2 begins only after the intentional hard cut. Do not visually morph gambar 2 into gambar 3. NEGATIVE CONSTRAINTS: No identity drift or face redesign. No hairstyle change. No wardrobe change. No changing Lia's body proportions. No beauty filter or plastic skin. No duplicate Lia. No cameraman visible anywhere. No random foreground characters interacting with Lia. No incorrect speaker lip-sync. Lia's lips stay silent during cameraman dialogue. No extra dialogue. No subtitles. No captions. No watermark. No logos. No duplicate coffee glass. No switching coffee between hands. No duplicate cigarette. No switching cigarette between hands. No cigarette magically relighting after extinction. No cigarette smoke during the road scene. No random location morphing. No unexplained teleportation. No random jump cuts. Only one intentional hard cut between the terrace and road scenes. No gimbal stabilization. No cinematic orbit. No drone shot. No glossy cinematic grading. No modern HDR look. No dramatic lens flare. No artificial slow motion. No speed ramps. No background music. No narrator. FINAL GOAL: A believable forgotten early-2000s Indonesian home video — candid, imperfect, funny, warm and unscripted. It should feel as though a real friend casually picked up a consumer DV camcorder one tropical morning, found Lia drinking coffee and smoking on her terrace, chatted with her spontaneously, then followed her down a village road while she jokingly teased the cameraman. The viewer should feel that life in the environment continues naturally whether or not the camera is recording.

CUPANG

32,105 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

The outgoing American ambassador to Zambia, Michael C. Gonzales, has accused President Hakainde Hichilema’s government of corruption and dishonesty, stating that Hichilema’s fight against corruption is bogus and is selectively used to arrest and persecute political opponents. He made these remarks while delivering his farewell speech. He said Zambia loses over US$4 billion annually through illicit or dirty financial flows, money leaving the country and not benefiting the Zambian people. Full speech below Remarks by Amb. Michael Gonzales Farewell Reception – April 30, 2026 Good evening. For decades, the U.S. relationship with Zambia was one centered around aid. The United States has provided billions of dollars of assistance to Zambia, helping the country reach HIV epidemic control, contributing to a 20-year increase in life expectancy, slashing malaria deaths, and truly impacting the lives of every Zambian alive today. When we paused funding to review our assistance programs last year, so much of Zambia’s health system began to crumble almost overnight. Despite over $7 billion in U.S. health assistance since 2000 and the hard work of many Zambians alongside us, that crumbling system revealed that while we thought we were building capacity, successive Zambian governments had not built systems. Too often, Zambian officials and leaders abdicated their responsibilities, letting the United States pay for healthcare while officials diverted government funds to their own pockets. Last year I shed tears before the world when I announced a $50 million cut in US health assistance. After years of pleading, I could no longer stand by while the Zambian government refused to stop or take action to hold people accountable for the systematic and nationwide theft of U.S. provided medicines while the Zambian citizens for whom those were intended went without. One year later, not a single notable person has been arrested since last February. Not a single notable prosecution has even begun. After last year’s pause, we resumed almost all of our health assistance, over $400 million including over $75 million in medication. We continue to pay the salaries for over 23,000 healthcare workers, as we have for decades. Such is the legacy of America’s support to the Zambian people. Now, I know there have been alarmist allegations recently. But let me be clear, any suggestion that the United States would withhold critical life-saving healthcare support from those Zambians whose lives and health depend on it unless we get critical minerals is disgusting and patently false! In reality, since October, my government has offered over $2 billion in additional health and economic assistance to Zambia. But we can no longer accept empty promises. The future must look different. The Zambian government must also increase Zambian funding, staffing, and genuine ownership of its systems. This is not to impose our will, it is the only way we know for Zambia to truly own a sustainable healthcare system and to enable robust growth. It is the only way we know to ensure that system serves the people while finally breaking the cycle of foreign aid dependency. Since January, however, like with so many of our other overtures to the Zambian government, we have had effectively zero substantive engagement from Zambian officials to move these efforts forward. Our calls go ignored, questions unanswered, meetings cancelled, leaving us without even opportunities to speak, much less engage in substantive deliberations. Instead of continuing to languish without engagement, the actual funding under our Health MOU should have started this month. Instead, we have reached April 30 still cobbling together funds for mismatched projects without an implementation plan to guide us forward under Zambian leadership, much less a finalized MOU that guides our strategic approach. We know that the Zambian budget cannot even afford to pay for public services today, not to mention the increased healthcare funding or the myriad other huge budget commitments that seem to get pledged daily. So, something has to change if Zambia will ever meet its full potential or be able to sustainably provide services to its own people. At the same time, the Zambian government’s own reports reveal that every year Zambia loses over $4 billion in dirty money flows to East Asia. That is Zambian money that does not benefit the Zambian people or contribute to the budget. If taxed, that would bring an additional $1 billion for the government to fund healthcare, education, social services, and development. Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars of government funds are lost to the Zambian people through corruption. Certainly, it is not just U.S. taxpayers’ support that is stolen. Every year, the country loses out on hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment and growth because they are hijacked by unmitigated petty corruption, blocked because law-abiding investors refuse to pay kickbacks to Zambian bureaucrats or leaders who are never held accountable. The narrative of the U.S.-Zambia relationship is adorned with flowery words of “partnership,” “collaboration,” “strategic,” or “mutual.” Regrettably, the reality of our unrequited relationship for decades has been starkly different. For years, the United States funded programs and sent technical advisors to help achieve Zambia’s development objectives. As we have for these past four months, we have often struggled to get successive governments to even bother answering the phone. It takes months to get a meeting that yields nothing. Officials draft policies they have no intention of implementing, invoking them only in speeches to sound like they are taking action. MOUs decay on the shelf among the others before the signing ceremony even ends, never to be implemented because the ministry will not even meet to discuss implementation. Why? Because generations of Zambian officials and leaders gain from the dysfunction. The non-responsiveness on our availed funding and efforts to truly build a Zambian-owned health system that serves the Zambian people is sadly the norm. The theatre of commissioning a report to get a scandal out of the news cycle but taking no substantive action on accountability is all too common. Of course, the systematic theft of public resources is not unique to American-provided medicines. Attacking the messenger who dares to name these dynamics out loud is not limited to targeting the U.S. ambassador and asking Washington for his removal. Today, 10% of my diplomats have family members who still have not received basic residency permits from the Zambian government. Several have received court summonses as a result. Like Zambians themselves experience, ZRA staff shake down my departing diplomats for fees that do not apply to them too. When elevated, their supervisors double down on the demand. Zambia’s institutionalised and refined corruption does not only dissuade transparent and law-abiding investors from the United States. The inaction, corruption, and intimidation of opponents also harms American citizens, it undermines American organisations, NGOs, companies, and philanthropies. Zambians and so many other global friends of Zambia are also hampered by these very same dynamics, often bearing far more of the brunt of their effects. America’s support to Zambia is long-standing. Our goodwill runs through the veins, the hearts, and the dreams of millions of Zambians. Our hands remain open, outstretched in a genuine, transparent offer of true, tangible, and meaningful collaboration for mutual benefit. But there must be change. Going forward, the benefits of our relationship must be mutual. Empty promises must be replaced with tangible action. Commitments must be honoured, laws must be implemented and enforced consistently and equally. The decades of paying for healthcare while national resources are pocketed must give way to ownership and systematic improvements that enable growth, development, and accountability. Since President Hichilema and I committed to reset the U.S.-Zambia relationship last July, America has redoubled our efforts to support robust Zambian agency. We have availed billions of dollars to support tangible investments and reforms to catalyse Zambia’s success. We have offered expert support to inform reforms that would systematically benefit both the Zambian people and their many friends from around the world, without bias or favour. Sadly, so many of our overtures and goodwill have been met with, to use the most persistent and notorious of the Zambian government’s responses, “Noted. With thanks.” But appointing a Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission who was actively under investigation by the ACC, and her admonishment to her intentionally under-resourced agency not to investigate senior government officials, only cripples hopes that clean business can be done. Last May, multiple senior government officials shared with me and have confirmed that the government has a 500-page expert report detailing the irreversible harm and risk of generations of birth defects, cancers, heart and liver disease caused by carcinogenic heavy metals unleashed into the Kafue River ecosystem by last year’s Sino Metals tailings dam disaster. But my heart broke when on July 29 last year, one of the country’s senior-most leaders vehemently denied that the government even had the report, much less would act on it until the polluter themselves provided it. I pleaded with her to take action to protect the Zambian people and I again offered U.S. assistance, which the Foreign Ministry had already formally declined. While so many American prospective investors leave, put off by bureaucratic drudgery, inaction, and corruption, the Zambian government recently approved Sino Metals to expand its operations. Did this happen in the face of Zambia’s myriad impediments, or because of them? Today, Sino Metals is scarring game management areas abutting the Kafue National Park. When that tailings dam breaks, I will not be alone shedding tears. Punctuating this, apart from the truly exceptional cases, too many American companies cannot get licences, approvals, or action on basic administrative matters without being shaken down to give brown envelopes of cash. The Zambian people suffer the consequences of these dual offences, exploitation and foregone opportunity. When Parliament ignores the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the process used to ram through a constitutional amendment was itself unconstitutional, investors rightly ask, “If they can do that to the constitution, what does that mean for the sanctity of my contract?” They rightly wonder if the next constitutional amendment which the Attorney General has already announced is really just a guise for resetting term limits. Even the Chinese government convicted AVIC’s Chairman to death for corruption. AVIC’s Chingola-Chililabombwe Road was washed out last month, its negligence disrupting Zambia’s trade with the region. AVIC’s fraud in a $320 million police housing tender in 2014 is well documented. Despite that, this government ignored the competitive bid by renowned Zambian investors only to award AVIC the $650 million Lusaka-Ndola Dual Carriageway project, subsidising this notoriously fraudulent and corrupt company with $300 million from the public pension scheme. How does this happen? Can law-abiding investors do clean business here? Will donors be asked to backfill the loss when the pension money too is wiped out? The rhetoric of “no sacred cows” is rubbish when there are not any cows except those who are deemed to be disloyal. When only opponents are arrested, but not those in office engaged in the very same practices, the hollow rhetoric of “rule of law” only further keeps investors away, preventing the creation of growth, jobs, and tax revenues to pay for public service commitments. Zambia does not need money. It needs leaders who govern for the people with integrity. It needs the political will to put Zambia first. But, of course, you do not need me to say this. Dambisa Moyo, herself a daughter of the soil, made these same arguments 17 years ago. What America is trying to do here is both bolster Zambia’s sovereignty and catalyse Zambia’s growth. We are offering a transparent and open hand to join the Zambian people for mutual progress. We know that while you pursue a Zambia First agenda and we pursue America First, we are still able together to achieve something notably better for both of our countries, and we can do so without it coming at anyone’s expense, anyone’s exclusion, fully transparently, and legally. Now, of course, the United States will absolutely continue to honour our long-standing commitment to the Zambian people to provide critical life-saving healthcare support. We will not leave Zambians without access to ARVs. We are redoubling our support to ensure that babies are not born HIV-positive. But, against the unmitigated systematic theft of U.S. assistance, against the refusal by the Zambian government to engage and to own or enable a sustainable healthcare system that serves the people, in an environment where only the most exceptional of American investors can do clean business, and where Zambian government officials often can scarcely be bothered to take meetings with American officials or companies, not to mention capture the billion dollars of its own money secreted out of the country to East Asia or hold accountable the company that unleashes generations of cancer and birth defects onto the people, without fundamental change, as the American Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, how can I ask American taxpayers, Congress, or President Trump to continue the massive aid budgets that have been the hallmark of our relationship for decades? The United States remains intent to work with Zambia toward our mutual objectives, but how Washington responds to silence, inaction, aversion to accountability, and lack of ownership remains to be seen. That said, I am confident that it will depend on fundamental changes by the Zambian government to take action to do right by the Zambian people. It will depend on actions to foster and enable the Zambian people, and their partners who abide by the rule of law, to be able to tangibly contribute to a mutually beneficial future. Washington’s hand remains open and outreached for transparent, accountable collaboration enabling tangible action to benefit both of our countries. But we can no longer own the projects more than the Zambian government. We cannot justify continuing to prioritise funding where the Zambian government also does not deploy its own resources. No longer will we lead while Zambian officials sit back unresponsively. Quite simply, America can best support Zambia’s sovereignty, agency, and success if we finally abide by the maxim and refrain from wanting development more than the Zambian government does. That said, what happens between governments and embassies is important, but it is only a small fraction of the broader relationship between countries. The ties between Zambia and America are profound, strong, and everlasting. The connections between churches and civil society, the linkages between students, artists, and researchers, the bonds between communities, the union of our peoples, these are the essence of the U.S.-Zambia relationship, and these will never fade. Too often people hope for change. They note what others should do. But hope is not a strategy, and we cannot control the actions of others, only our own. So, as I prepare to leave this country that I love, I ask those of you whose country it is, is this the Zambia you want? Are you on course to achieve it? If not, what action will you take to contribute to making that become a reality? I first stepped foot in Zambia in 1995. My daughter took her first steps in Livingstone. As I prepare to depart, I take with me beautiful memories of Zambia and the Zambian people, but I depart with a heavy heart wondering if realisation of the Zambian dream will be deferred for yet another 64 years while even more Zambians fall into poverty instead of being able to rise into the brilliant future that is possible. But my role here is not about this little guy with a big heart for Africa. It is about America and Zambia. America will continue reaching out to the people of Zambia, offering our support, seeking as much to learn as to share, doing so openly and transparently, and eager to help enable the realisation of that Zambian dream and the creative future that benefits, and can only be discovered through, our sincere partnership. I thank you.

Hopewell Chin’ono

99,068 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

Leaving work at five shouldn’t require stealth mode, but her boss made it a mission. Seedance 2.5 0n SJinn Agent Prompt SCENE CONTEXT A 30-second realistic AAA third-person stealth-action game sequence set in a Japanese corporate office at exactly 5:00 PM on a bright weekday afternoon. The player character, NAGI, has finished her work and must reach the elevator without being stopped by her boss and given another assignment. ACTIVE REFERENCES [Image] = NAGI’s facial identity, if a character reference is supplied. Use only her facial appearance as the identity reference; replace any school clothing and background with the adult office character and environment specified below. NAGI: Japanese woman, 25, long straight black hair with blunt bangs, white short-sleeve office blouse, charcoal tailored trousers, black leather belt, white minimalist sneakers, employee ID clipped to her waistband, small black work tote held close to her body. Voice: light, breathy adult female voice, speaking Japanese in a hushed whisper. Keep her face, hairstyle, outfit, proportions, and accessories identical throughout. CAST SEPARATION Four distinct adult office characters appear, each with a different silhouette, age, and hairstyle so they read as separate people: TEAM LEADER: man in his 40s, 170 cm, average build, full head of short black hair parted at the side, thin metal-framed glasses, white dress shirt with a loosened navy tie. Appears only beside the first desk cluster, checking his watch. PAPERWORK COWORKER: woman in her 20s, 160 cm, slim, brown hair in a high ponytail, beige cardigan over a white blouse, carrying a thick stack of printouts. Appears only in the printer aisle. BOSS: man in his 60s, 160 cm, stout and round-shouldered, completely bald with a shiny scalp and a fringe of white hair above the ears, round gold-rimmed glasses, charcoal three-piece suit with a company lapel badge, carrying a blue assignment folder. Appears at the corridor T-junction and remains in that connected corridor during the whiteboard sequence. OFFICE ASSISTANT: man in his early 30s, 182 cm, lean and broad-shouldered, thick full black hair swept back, short beard, navy shirt with rolled sleeves, dark trousers, no glasses. Pushes the mobile whiteboard from the meeting-room alcove toward the elevator lobby. The BOSS is the only bald character in the entire video. The OFFICE ASSISTANT keeps a full head of thick black hair and a beard, stands more than 20 cm taller than the BOSS, and is clearly a different, much younger man. LOCATION MAP One unbroken spatial route the camera travels with her: Her workstation → low desk partition → printer aisle → corridor T-junction → meeting-room alcove with mobile whiteboard → elevator lobby → elevator interior. Keep the route compact and physically traversable within the 27-second continuous section. Foreground: polished linoleum floor, office desks, steel filing cabinets, rolling chairs, and reflective glass meeting-room partitions. Background: window wall on camera-right overlooking neighboring office buildings, dust suspended in the sunbeams. Light enters from camera-right along the office route. ELEVATOR GEOMETRY The elevator entrance is at the end of the office corridor. The call button is on the wall beside the entrance. The elevator is empty when NAGI enters. Inside the elevator: brushed-metal rear wall, side handrails, softly illuminated ceiling, control panel beside the doorway. No rear exit and no mirror creating a second NAGI. NAGI enters facing the rear wall, then turns to face the open elevator doors. For the final reverse shot, the camera is positioned INSIDE the elevator, immediately beside the doorway, looking inward at NAGI. The brushed-metal rear wall is behind her. The elevator doors close behind the camera, allowing her face to remain visible throughout the final shot. FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING First frame is already in motion: NAGI darts in from lower-left toward camera-right, work tote clutched to her chest, and drops into a crouch-slide behind a low desk partition beside her workstation. Camera behind her right shoulder. Game HUD fully visible from frame one. A small desk clock reads 17:00. FORMAT MODE One continuous unbroken take from 0.0s to 27.0s with no cuts of any kind, then a single HARD CUT at 27.0s to one final locked reverse shot that runs to 30.0s. Exactly one cut exists in the whole video, at 27.0s. The camera does not cut anywhere else. OPTICS One lens for the continuous section: 47° third-person over-the-shoulder framing as the baseline, breathing in to 29° on reaction beats and out to 63° for the boss encounter and moving-whiteboard concealment. All FOV changes in that section happen as smooth continuous zoom breathing, never as a jump. The final shot after the cut is a fixed 29° frontal framing of NAGI, no drift. CAMERA For the continuous section, the camera is a physical object flying with her. Chest-height, 1.5 meters behind NAGI, slightly camera-right of her spine, swinging with a soft spring delay half a beat behind her turns like an analog-stick gameplay camera. It dips to knee height when she crouches, rises when she stands, slides sideways along the filing cabinets with her, swings wide to corridor-left to reveal the boss encounter, drifts behind her for the moving whiteboard, and follows her through the open elevator doorway. The camera travels through open space around desks and partitions. It never clips through furniture, walls, the whiteboard, or elevator doors. After the cut, the camera is repositioned inside the elevator beside the doorway, looking inward at NAGI — locked off, eye level, completely static, no movement. ACTION [Beat 1 — 0.0s to 6.0s] NAGI crouch-slides behind the low desk partition, back flat against it, chest heaving. She leans out 20 cm to peek at the TEAM LEADER checking his watch beside the adjacent desk cluster, then pulls back. She whispers in Japanese: {定時だ…捕まったら終わり。} HUD flashes 【5:00 PM — SHIFT OVER】 and the mission banner 【OBJECTIVE: REACH THE ELEVATOR UNDETECTED】. The TEAM LEADER turns toward a ringing desk phone. NAGI slips behind his back, staying below the desk-partition line, and moves into the printer aisle. The camera follows without stopping. [Beat 2 — 6.0s to 12.0s] The camera stays with her beside the steel filing cabinets. NAGI presses her spine flat against the cabinets and shuffles sideways at 2 km/h, sneakers rolling heel-to-toe in silence. The camera tracks sideways with her at the same speed. The PAPERWORK COWORKER walks past the end of the row carrying a thick stack of printouts, scanning the office for someone available to help. NAGI holds her breath, pupils tracking the coworker without moving her head, and whispers: {来ないで…こっち見ないで。} The minimap vision cone sweeps past NAGI’s marker and turns away. HUD shows 【SNEAKING MODE】. The PAPERWORK COWORKER exits frame-left. NAGI exhales, crouches beneath the edge of the last desk, and slips into the corridor with the camera still on her shoulder. [Beat 3 — 12.0s to 18.0s] The BOSS steps around the T-junction two meters in front of her, blue assignment folder in hand. He catches a brief glimpse of movement. A red exclamation marker snaps above his bald head with a sharp alert sting. The HUD edge pulses red: 【ALERT】. He starts saying in Japanese: {なぎさん、追加の仕事が…} The camera swings wide to corridor-left as NAGI reacts in one motion: hugs her tote tightly against her ribs, drops below his eye line, pivots around the corner of a tall filing cabinet, and slips into the adjacent meeting-room alcove. The cabinet fully blocks his view before he can finish approaching her. She whispers: {今だけは無理…!} HUD prints 【EVASIVE MANEUVER】 and 【BREAK LINE OF SIGHT】. The BOSS takes a step toward the place where he last saw her, looking around the cabinet. NAGI has already moved to the far side of a mobile whiteboard in the alcove. The camera falls in behind her again. [Beat 4 — 18.0s to 24.0s] The OFFICE ASSISTANT starts pushing the mobile whiteboard out of the meeting-room alcove toward the elevator lobby. The whiteboard is a tall, opaque rectangular board on a metal frame with four caster wheels. Its panel extends low enough to conceal NAGI’s crouched torso and head; only her white sneakers occasionally show below the frame. NAGI crouches on the side opposite the BOSS and shuffles with the board, matching its rolling speed exactly. She keeps her tote tucked close so it never protrudes beyond the board’s edge. The camera tracks low on her concealed side, showing her careful steps and the BOSS intermittently visible beyond the board’s far edge. The BOSS pauses, looks toward the moving whiteboard for a full beat, then turns back toward the office with his assignment folder. From behind the board, NAGI whispers: {ホワイトボード…最強。} HUD prints 【MOBILE COVER EQUIPPED】, then 【ENEMY LOST CONTACT】. The alert bar drains to green. The OFFICE ASSISTANT steers the board into a wall recess beside the elevator lobby. NAGI slips away from its concealed side as it stops. [Beat 5 — 24.0s to 27.0s] NAGI reaches the elevator call button and taps it once. A soft arrival chime sounds. The elevator is already waiting on this floor; its doors slide fully open. She slips through the clear doorway. The camera follows her inside, staying behind her shoulder. She turns to face the entrance and presses the door-close button once. Her shoulders remain tense, tote held tightly in both hands. The doors remain open until the cut. 27.0s HARD CUT [Beat 6 — 27.0s to 30.0s] Locked static reverse shot from inside the elevator beside the doorway, looking inward: NAGI stands facing camera, shoulders squared, work tote held in front of her, chest still rising fast. Behind her are the brushed-metal rear wall and a horizontal handrail. Off camera behind the lens, from the distant office corridor, the BOSS calls in Japanese: {なぎさん、ちょっといい?} The elevator doors slide closed behind the camera. Their narrowing opening is registered by the shrinking patch of corridor light across NAGI’s face and the sliding-door sound. NAGI answers brightly, looking straight down the lens: {お先に失礼します!} The doors finish closing. Her shoulders drop with relief. HUD prints 【MISSION COMPLETE】, 【STEALTH RANK: S】, 【ADRENALINE +150】, and the final notification: 【AFTER-HOURS TASK EVADED】 Final frame: NAGI facing camera, a tiny triumphant smile pulling at one corner of her mouth. PERFORMANCE Photographic human realism indistinguishable from live-action footage: skin with visible pores, fine vellus hair catching the light, subsurface scattering in the earlobes and fingertips, capillary flush across her cheeks and ears from running, individual flyaway strands lifting off her hair, wet living eyes with true window catchlights and a faint red inner rim, clean matte skin. Visible fast breathing at the collarbone, eyes darting a half-second before her head turns. Tension shown by muscle: shoulders drawn up to her ears, fingers clamped white on the tote handles, jaw set, then a full-body shoulder drop on each escape. All adults have equally real skin, real hair follicles, and natural asymmetric faces. PHYSICS Her blouse and tailored trousers crease naturally during crouches and turns. Hair lags and sweeps across her face on fast direction changes. The work tote has real weight: its handles pull taut in her hands, and its body swings with inertia before settling against her torso. The mobile whiteboard has real mass. Its caster wheels rotate against the floor, swivel when steered, and rattle lightly over a flooring seam. The board wobbles subtly when the OFFICE ASSISTANT starts and stops it. NAGI moves with her own visible footsteps; the board does not drag or transport her. The coworker’s printouts flex slightly while walking. The BOSS’s folder stays in his hand. Elevator doors slide smoothly on fixed tracks and close only after NAGI and the camera are fully inside. Contact shadows stay glued under every foot, every knee, every furniture leg, and every caster wheel. LIGHTING One continuous light logic across the office route: bright late-afternoon sun at 5600K entering from the window wall on camera-right, throwing long window-frame stripes across the floor. NAGI passes through light and shadow as she travels. Soft bounce fill off the pale linoleum lifts her face. Fine dust hangs suspended in the sunbeams. The elevator lobby receives the same window light. Inside the elevator, neutral overhead illumination provides continuous soft fill. In the final reverse shot, the same corridor daylight enters from camera-left through the open doorway, raking across her cheek. As the doors close behind the lens, this daylight narrows and disappears naturally, leaving the elevator’s established overhead light. Exposure rolls smoothly as she moves between bright and shadowed stretches, and the color temperature matches exactly across the cut. HUD GTA-style real-time game HUD locked to fixed screen positions for the whole 30 seconds, with every on-screen word written in English: Circular minimap bottom-left with the player arrow and yellow vision cones for the office characters; health and stamina bars top-left; alert-state bar shifting green to amber to red; controller button prompts bottom-right; English mission objective text top-center; floating red exclamation markers over alerted characters; notification cards sliding in from screen-right. The HUD stays in the same screen positions across the cut. No subtitles or caption bars anywhere on screen. The HUD is a clean flat graphic overlay composited on top of fully photographic live-action-grade footage. AUDIO Tense minimalist stealth synth loop with a pulsing heartbeat underneath, running unbroken across the cut and resolving to a short bright victory fanfare at the end. Ambience carries continuously through the cut. Office sounds become naturally muffled as the elevator doors close. All dialogue is spoken in Japanese. STYLE Photoreal live-action realism, real human beings and real fabric, natural skin tones with true-to-life color science, physically correct materials, realistic human proportions and anatomy, real optical depth of field, real floor reflections, subtle handheld gameplay motion blur, fine film grain at 5%, sharp detail intent. OUTPUT SETTINGS 16:9, real-time speed throughout, one continuous 27-second take plus one 3-second locked shot after a single hard cut. POSITIVE LOCKS Exactly one cut in the entire video, at 27.0s — everything before it is a single unbroken take with the camera connected to NAGI. NAGI is consistently an adult office employee, 25, with the same face, long black hair with blunt bangs, white office blouse, charcoal tailored trousers, black belt, white sneakers, clipped employee ID, and black work tote throughout, with dry clean skin. The work tote stays with her throughout. The mobile whiteboard appears only from the meeting-room alcove onward and is physically pushed by the OFFICE ASSISTANT. It remains between NAGI and the BOSS during the concealment beat. The bald BOSS in the charcoal suit and the tall bearded OFFICE ASSISTANT with thick black hair are unmistakably different men. The office route remains spatially continuous. Characters do not teleport between locations. NAGI enters the elevator before turning toward its doors. In the final shot, the camera is inside the elevator beside the doorway, with NAGI facing the lens and the brushed-metal rear wall behind her. The doors close behind the camera; they never pass between the lens and her face. All on-screen text is English. The last 3 seconds hold a locked frontal eye-level shot of NAGI facing camera. HUD elements stay in the same screen corners throughout. One single NAGI on screen at all times. All spoken lines are in Japanese. Sunlight direction stays consistent across the office route, with a physically motivated transition to elevator lighting as the doors close. Final notification: 【AFTER-HOURS TASK EVADED】.

Sharon Riley

62,727 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce

*** Test Your 9/11 Knowledge: The Explosive Evidence at the 3 WTC Towers The 50 Questions NIST Should Have Asked 20 Years Ago! WTC Building 7 Free-fall 1. How is it possible that 47-story Building 7 fell suddenly, symmetrically in free-fall acceleration, without any resistance from any of its 81 columns? 2. Why did NIST deny its free-fall for 7 years, only to be proven wrong and be forced to officially admit that it did collapse in free-fall? Symmetry 3. How, if Building 7 was damaged asymmetrically in the north-east corner on floor twelve, as per the NIST report, could it fall symmetrically downward? Shouldn’t the building have tilted toward its damaged side – and not fall straight down through the path of what was the greatest resistance? Fires 4. How could a few, small, and scattered ordinary office fires have brought this Type-1 fire-protected steel-frame skyscraper down, when several dozen examples of much hotter, much larger, and longer-lasting fires have never in history brought down such a building? 5. How could normal office fires take out all the columns in the building sequentially floor by floor, in 7 seconds? 6. Why did NIST claim that the fires were still burning, up until the time of the collapse, when the photos show that they were burnt out more than an hour before the collapse? 7. Why aren’t all the firefighters concerned, in the wake of the NIST report during the last 24 years, that such ordinary fightable fires can now bring skyscrapers down on top of them, and on top of the public who are told to “defend in place” in the building (and not obstruct access by firefighters)? 8. Why are many of these same firefighters calling for a new investigation of the NIST report itself? Controlled Demolition 9. Since the collapse of Building 7 looks exactly like a controlled demolition, why did NIST avoid any serious consideration of this hypothesis? 10. How could a 40,000-ton moment-resisting and X-braced structural steel frame collapse like a house of cards in 7 seconds, with most of its columns and beams severed – one from another? 11. Why does WTC 7 have all of the key features of typical controlled demolition, and none of the features of collapse by fire? Explosions 12. Why didn’t NIST include in its report on WTC 7 the half-dozen witnesses of explosions prior to its collapse, and even claim that there were no witnesses? 13. What could have caused an elevator cab to be “blown 30 feet out of its hoistway,” as Deputy Director of NY-Office of Emergency Management, Richard Rotanz, reported at Noon, when the building didn’t collapse for another 5 hours. 14. What caused Barry Jennings and Michael Hess to be injured by explosions and subsequently trapped in the building before either Twin Tower collapsed? Foreknowledge 15. Why did Fire Chief Nick Visconti declare, “We’re moving the command post over this way, that building’s coming down!”? 16. How could Fire Chief Hayden’s engineer declare, upon being asked, “how long until the building comes down?” – then accurately state, “In its current state you have about 5 hours,” when no steel-frame fire-protected high-rise had ever come down due to fire alone? 17. Why did construction workers, while walking away from Building 7 and upon hearing an explosion from the building, look straight into the CNN camera saying, “You hear that? Keep your eye on that building. That thing’s coming down. The building is about to blow up, flame and debris coming down”? 18. Why did former Air Force medic Kevin McPadden hear a “3-2-1” countdown on the radio, and subsequently hear explosions before Building 7 collapsed? 19. How could the BBC have announced, live on TV, the collapse of WTC 7 20 minutes before it collapsed? 20. Why did CNN announce, 7 hours early, the 10:45 AM collapse of a 50-story building (obviously referring to Building 7)? Expert Statements 21. Why have more than 3,600 Architects & Engineers signed onto the petition at demanding a new 9/11 WTC investigation? 22. Why are dozens of structural engineers making statements such as: “A localized failure in a steel-framed building like WTC 7 cannot cause a catastrophic collapse like a house of cards, without a simultaneous and patterned loss of several of its columns at key locations within the building”? 23. Why did the top European controlled demolition expert declare: “That is controlled demolition. It’s been imploded. It’s a hired job. A team of experts did this? 24. Why did top forensic structural engineer, Prof. Leroy Hulsey from the University of Alaska, following a 4-year study of WTC 7, declare: “The collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of all columns in the building and not a progressive collapse, as claimed by NIST. Extreme Heat Molten Metal 25. What does it mean that FEMA, in its 2002 Report, including a metallurgical examination of the WTC 7 steel, revealed “a phenomenon never before observed in building fires….a liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel...” Why did NIST eliminate this metallurgical report from their final report? 26. Did Fire Protection Engineer Jonathan Barnett know, when he said, “steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated,” that it takes 4,000°F to evaporate steel? And that jet fuel and office fires don’t even rise to a third of that temperature? 27. Why is there bright yellow molten steel or iron pouring out of the crab claw excavators in the WTC pit? And out of the South Tower just minutes before its collapse. 28. Why did the first responders in the pit report, “you get down in the pile, and you see molten steel – flowing down the channel rails, like lava from a volcano”? Did they know that it takes 3,000°F to melt steel, and that office fires and jet fuel can only achieve half of this temperature? 29. What can explain the well-documented 3,000°F temperatures that are well-documented in the WTC Twin Towers collapse aftermath? Why is there evidence of ignited thermite found by so many first responders in the WTC pile? Previously Molten Iron Microspheres 30. What does it mean that the US Geological Survey and RJ Lee Group independently documented billions of previously molten iron-rich microspheres in ALL of the WTC dust samples? Where would the required 3,000°F come from? Could the ignited thermite have created those molten iron microspheres? 31. Why is bright yellow molten steel or iron pouring out of the South Tower just minutes prior to its collapse? 32. What explains the 2009 peer-reviewed findings from the Niels Harrit research team of dual-layered red-gray chips of nano-thermite in all the independently-collected dust samples they analyzed? Why do they ignite at the same temperature as military grade “super-thermite”? Why do they produce molten iron-rich microspheres when ignited? 33. What does it mean that Harrit’s international research team found that the “red layer of the red/gray chips in all of their WTC dust samples is active unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material”? The Twin Towers Official Explanation 34. How can the official explanation of the Twin Towers’ collapse be true (that an intact top section drove down the rest of the building after weakening of some of the structural steel in the impact zone) when this top section had already been destroyed in the first 3 seconds of the collapse (telescoping in on itself) and so was not even available to drive anything down to the ground? NIST claims that the top part of the building drove the rest of the building down to the ground. Why then do none of the photos or videos show such a top part driving anything down? And why didn’t that top “pile driver” drive down the 800-foot-tall group of columns standing for 6 seconds after the overall collapse? 35. Why did Zdenek Bazant, in his calculations for his controversial paper submitted to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics on 9/13/01( only two days after 9/11) use twice the actual mass of the upper section of the North Tower above the impact floors and only one third of the actual column strength of the larger building section beneath it in his support for NIST collapse theory? a. Why is this paper still today the key theoretical basis of NIST’s column failure theory? 36. Why does the destruction of the towers look more like a volcanic eruption (than a straight-down gravitational collapse) with upward and outward arching streamers, a geometry of fireworks, freely flying solid molten objects trailing thick white smoke clouds? Witnesses of Explosions 37. Why are there 156 First Responder witnesses of explosions – seeing, hearing, and feeling explosions – many of them BEFORE the towers ever came down? 38. Why did NIST claim that there were “no witnesses of explosions” when there were as many as 200 publicly recorded testimonies – many before the collapse? What could explain Fire Chief Frank Cruthers’ testimony that, “… an explosion… appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay, before you could see the beginning of the collapse”? 39. Why did 36 reporters on the day of 9/11 report the WTC destruction as an explosion-based event, most of them actual witnesses of explosions? a. Why did the mainstream national media change the story the next day from explosion-based collapses to “fire-induced collapses”? 40. Why did the FBI, NYPD, and FDNY on the day of 9/11 all state that they suspected that explosives were used to bring down the towers, but change their story in the following week to fire-induced collapse? Seismic Evidence 41. Why did the Richter Scale recordings from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory document significant seismic events for both towers, more than a dozen seconds before the planes hit either tower – corroborating the explosive testimony of William Rodriguez and others of massive explosions in the basement prior to the plane hitting the buildings? 42. Why did the seismic evidence from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory document significant seismic events, in the North Tower, 5 seconds before the heaviest debris from each tower struck the ground? And in the South Tower, 7 seconds before any debris struck the ground? Wouldn’t this seismic evidence corroborate the testimony of the first responders that saw, heard, and/or felt explosions before the towers fell? 43. Why did at least 3 of the tripod-mounted cameras (two on the ground and one on the rooftop) “shake” 3 to 10 seconds before each of the towers fell? Would the camera evidence corroborate the seismic evidence and the first responder's explosive testimony? Explosive Evidence 44. Since the damage from the planes and fires was so asymmetrical, why was the destruction itself so precisely symmetrical – all the way down each face of each tower? Why do the videos show precise rows of individual explosions progressing down the towers – floor by floor? 45. Why do we see in the videos isolated pin-point explosive ejections occurring 20, 40, and even 60 stories down below the downward-traveling zone of destruction in each tower? Descent Profile and Speed 46. Why did the top sections of each tower descend suddenly, smoothly, down with no stoppage or “jolt” upon impact with the cold, hard, intact steel columns below the floors of the plane impacts? 47. How was it possible that the top section of each Tower descended without slowing at all, but instead accelerated, as if 80,000 tons of steel beneath wasn’t even there? What happened to the steel? Lateral Ejection of Steel 48. Why do we see in the videos the lateral ejection out of both of the Towers of hundreds of freely flying structural steel sections each weighing 4 to 8 tons, at 80mph, landing up to 600 feet in every direction, impaling all of the surrounding skyscrapers? Why are they trailing thick white smoke clouds when steel is not flammable in office fires, or under jet fuel conditions? Could this be due to the other byproduct of thermite – aluminum oxide ash? 49. Since FEMA officially documented a 1200-foot diameter zone of flying, fallen, and impaled structural steel beyond the footprints of both Towers, how could that steel, which comprised 1/3 of the weight of the falling section of each building, have still been available to crush the lower part as NIST claimed? Missing Floors 50. Since there were 110 concrete floors, each an acre in size, and since they were not stacked up in pile of “pancakes” at the bottom, and since a third of the WTC dust in the 3” thick blanket across Lower Manhattan from river to river is powdered concrete, then how could the concrete floors (also 1/3 of the weight of each Tower) be available to crush the building below? 51. What extreme-high temperature could have reduced 90,000 tons of concrete in each Tower back to its original aggregate, sand, and cement powder? Demolition Access 52. How could the perpetrators have gained access to the Towers to plant high energy explosives and incendiaries? Could a massive fireproofing upgrade project in the months and years prior to 9/11 have provided access to the underside of the floor systems to apply sprayed-on nano-thermite? Is it a coincidence that the WTC fireproofing upgrades occurred mostly on the floors that were hit by the planes on 9/11? Could the largest elevator modernization in the world in the 9 months prior to 9/11 have provided access to the core columns and beams? Is it just a coincidence that Ace Elevator employees were pulled out of the Towers on 9/11 for “union meeting”? Destruction of Evidence 53. Why was 99% of the WTC structural steel crime scene evidence loaded onto barges starting just 2 weeks after 9/11 and shipped to China for recycling before structural engineers and metallurgists could get their hands on it to do a proper forensic investigation? We encougage you to ask these questions of your elected representatives and the media. We address most of these questions in our presentations and podcast and radio interviews. So get is in front of them! Who do you know that might interview RichardGage911 about the explosive destruction of the 3 World Trade Center Skyscrapers on 9/11?

Richard Gage, AIA, Architect

44,559 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

🚨EXCLUSIVE: The untold story of the FBI’s J6 pipe bomber “Person of Interest #2”🚨 If what the FBI’s January 6 pipe bomber “Person of Interest #2” (POI2) told me about his FBI interview is true, there is further proof that the Bureau has covered up, or “deleted,” additional video footage about what happened when the RNC pipe bomb was allegedly discovered by Karlin Younger on January 6, 2021. I will not reveal the identity or any other identifying information about the FBI’s POI2 in the January 6 pipe bomb saga. I also won't discuss the full five hours of personal interview time with POI2; instead, I will focus on two key pieces of information he gave me. As a primer for those not already following this story in detail, here is a brief rundown of the facts in POI2’s case and why the FBI was initially interested in him as a “person of interest”: -POI2 does not live in the Greater D.C. area. He lives in a large American city in a state that does not border D.C. -From news releases, congressional reports, FBI statements, and an FBI whistleblower disclosure, we know that POI2 was visiting a lifelong acquaintance (POI3) at his residence in Fall Church, VA, over the course of January 4 - 7, 2021. -POI2 used POI3’s Metrorail card for travel back and forth to the District on the 5th and 6th. -POI2 caught the attention of law enforcement investigators when he emerged from D.C.’s Metro South rail station on January 5, changed hats and put on dark sunglasses, then beelined straight across the street from the station into the Rumsey Court alley behind the Republican National Committee headquarters. It was in that alley that POI2 began taking photos of “numbers.” Numbers on trash cans, dumpsters, door addresses, and the like. According to the FBI, POI2 planned to use those photographs in a forthcoming book. (To date, that book has not been published.) Then, after walking around Capitol Hill all day long, and even attending some of the J5 protest events, POI2 ducked back into the same alley for a few minutes — after dark — before returning to the Metro South station across the street from the RNC. He returned to Falls Church via the train, where POI3 picked him up by car, and they went back to POI3’s home. POI2 then returned to DC the next morning to attend Trump’s speech at The Ellipse on the 6th. -POI2 was cleared of suspicion following two FBI interviews on January 19, 2021, at his residence in his home city. These interviews took place six days after the FBI pulled their Special Operations Group (SOG) surveillance team off POI3’s home on January 13, just two days after they were deployed to watch the infamous Falls Church, VA condominium address where we now know POI3 shared a firewall between his address and the then residence of former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff. The subject of our November 8, 2025 story published by Blaze Media. How I came to spend five hours with POI2 I met with POI2 twice, on December 11 and 12, 2025. On the 11th, a member of our team accompanied me: a retired FBI veteran of 25 years now working as a private investigator. That first interview lasted for three hours, and then the next day I met with POI2, just him and me, for another two hours. I arrived in POI2’s home city on the 10th to do some early recon. We had POI2’s name (which I’d acquired from a congressional source), and his address, but we didn’t have a current phone number. After running an extensive background on him, we learned a lot about his life and work, social media, friends and close associates, and even where he attends church, but we still didn't have a phone number to call him and ask for a meeting. Most interesting of all, POI2 is a prolific international traveler. In one recent year, he had logged over 40 international flights. So we didn’t even know if he’d be in the country, much less at home, if we knocked on this door. My recon of his address was a huge disappointment. His apartment building is one of those old inner-city manufacturing plants refitted into modern, upscale housing. The entire property is ringed by tall wrought-iron fencing, with electronic security for entry into the parking garage, foot traffic, and into the building itself. There was no visible way for us to just pay him a visit for a “knock and talk.” Perhaps we could have “buzzed” him from an exterior gate, but I didn’t get that far that day. Later that evening, I picked up my team member from the airport — the retired FBI guy — and we went to dinner for a long, late-night planning session. We identified a couple of strong local personal connections he had via his Facebook page, and we planned to visit them first, get more info about POI2, and maybe even get their help reaching out to him. At 9:00 a.m. the next morning, we arrived at the home of someone who seemed like they might be closest to him. We were lucky and hit a home run on the first swing. Without the long details, our “story” about why we were looking for POI2 — their close friend — worked like a charm, and we were invited into their home. Our host called POI2, and within two hours POI2 joined us at our new friend’s home. Luckily, POI2 had returned to the States from an overseas trip only the day before. For the next three hours, I asked most of the questions while my partner listened and observed. Based on my partner’s 25+ years of experience with the FBI, he believed POI2 answered everything truthfully … “Or, he’s a very, very good liar.” My partner had to fly back home the next morning, but I had many follow-up questions for POI2. I reached out again early in the morning, and he agreed to meet me at a coffee shop in his neighborhood. ***(On a personal timeline aside: during my second interview with POI2, I was only nine days away from my heart failure episode, and was already struggling to breath after the slightest of physical exertions.)*** The most significant reveal We met at 1:30 p.m., and spent another two full hours together. During this session, we had a detailed conversation about his two interviews with two FBI special agents. Both of those interviews were on the same day. January 19, 2021. POI2 had explained to the FBI agents that the reason he returned to the Rumsey Court alley behind the RNC was that he remembered there were several trash cans in the alley, and he wanted to dispose of an empty plastic water bottle before going back to the train station. I asked him why he didn’t simply throw the bottle away at the Metrotrain station. He shrugged. From our video review, POI2 only stayed in the alley for about three to four minutes. But if what he revealed to me is true, it is one of the most significant discoveries in our years-long pipe bomb investigation. POI2 shared with me that the FBI agents told him that he had thrown the empty water bottle away in the very trash container next to where the bomb would be placed a little over an hour and a half later. Why that is significant FIRST, it reveals that the FBI most likely had video of him depositing that empty bottle into that container. Yes … they could have taken DNA samples of every item in that trash can, but then they would also have needed DNA from POI2 in their database. POI2 didn’t offer that option as their explanation. He assumed they saw him on camera. I can personally attest that there is currently a camera in Rumsey Court that would cover the area where the bomb was placed, but I do not know if that same camera existed in January of 2021. But if they did observe POI2, on camera, tossing the bottle in the trash can immediately next to where the bomb was placed, then the FBI most certainly has video of Karlin Younger — the FirstNet employee — who discovered that device at approximately 12:35 p.m. the next day, January 6. Only 25 minutes before Vice President Mike Pence was to drop the gavel on the joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College presidential vote. Only about 18 minutes before the first breach of that outer bike rack barricade on the west Capitol grounds, led by Ray Epps, Ryan Samsel, and other suspicious characters. Many investigators, including Congressman Loudermilk and his committee, have posited that the two devices placed by the gray hooded bomber on J5 were retrieved at some point in the early morning hours of J6, then replaced just before their “discovery” a few minutes either side of 1:00 p.m. The allegedly “deleted” video from the two DNC cameras that provided the footage of the gray hooded bomber placing a device on the evening of J5 would have also shown us what happened after midnight. Whether or not the two plainclothes Capitol Police counter-surveillance officers were the ones who replaced the device just before reporting its discovery to the Secret Service agents attending VP-Elect Kamala Harris’s presence inside the building at the time. (Article to that story linked in comments below.) A camera aimed at the RNC drop location would give us the same information about what happened during the night, and when Karlin Younger discovered that device while walking back and forth and doing her laundry. The FBI claims that the footage from the two DNC cameras — after that device was planted under a bench — was accidentally deleted. (No one buys that story.) Those two FBI agents may also have inadvertently revealed to POI2 that video footage exists from that dark corner of the RNC/Capitol Hill Club alley on J5 and J6. Both missing videos, if they were to surface, would either invalidate all conspiracy theories about the pipe bombs, or confirm the prevailing theories and circumstantial evidence pointing to law enforcement participation and a multi-agency conspiracy. SECOND, if the two FBI agents were telling POI2 the truth about that specific trash container, then it brings into question all of POI2’s own statements about why he returned to that alley after dark. That very trash can was in the furthest and darkest corner of the RNC/Capitol Hill Club side of Rumsey Court. He would have had to ignore several of the first and most clearly visible, well-lit trash bins upon his arrival into that alley by way of the walkway between the RNC and the Capitol Hill Club. Instead, he made a hard left behind the Capitol Hill Club and headed toward the darkest corner of the alley, from which the view of that trash can was also likely obstructed by one or more cars typically parked between him and what would be his line of sight to that dark corner. This implies POI2 was either on a recon mission to determine the best drop location for the second device, or, as one retired, formerly high-ranking law enforcement officer has theorized, he may have placed an AirTag or other electronic beacon to lead the bomber to the most advantageous location to deposit the bomb. Near the end of my second meeting with POI2, he shared with me several photos of “numbers” he took in that alley. He shared the “time and location” data from those original photos on his iPhone. He also gave me screenshots from his phone’s call history of the exact moment the two FBI agents phoned him for both interviews on January 19, 2021. He was very earnest, forthcoming, and eager to answer all my questions. (Photo examples in comments below.) As a person, I like POI2. We could be friends. But either he or the FBI is lying about what happened in that dark corner behind the Capitol Hill Club. (Maybe both?) Just as POI2 and I were about to say goodbye and shake hands, I opened my phone to show him one photo. It was the shot I took of the two side-by-side doors at the condo complex in Falls Church, VA. The door on the left was the home of his lifelong acquaintance, POI3. The door on the right was Shauni Kerkhoff's January 6 residence. I asked him: “Can you make this math work for me?” He replied: “No, man. That’s so weird.” We have stayed in contact and spoken many times since those two days in December. ⬇️

Steve Baker

908,677 görüntüleme • 15 gün önce

dave meltzer: youtube enthusiast 💀 perfect. now we can stop pretending this was ever complicated. the real story is not that wwe is afraid of aew. the real story is not that “high level wwe officials” are whispering scary things to dave meltzer. the real story is not even that tony khan got asked a planted question on a media call with very little distribution about the possibility of aew soon having very little distribution, although that sentence is so stupidly perfect it should be bronzed and placed outside the wrestling observer newsletter office like a war memorial for people who died pretending this was journalism. the real story is that aew is going to lose its wbd distribution deal. either it ends at the expiration of the three-year term in 2027, or it ends earlier if paramount closes wbd and decides aew has no strategic place inside the new company. and based on the board as it exists right now, the most likely landing spot for aew in 2027 is google / youtube. that is the story. everything else is laundering. tony khan wants the story to be: “why would wwe say this about us?” that is the whole operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a lightly viewed roh show. a planted story. a planted messenger. a rehearsed answer. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says “i don’t know why wwe would…” tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the exact thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is not. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. aew is heading toward youtube because the domestic media rights board is closing around them. not as a troll. not as a bit. not as “pr spin.” as a business conclusion. aew is not leverage. wwe is not afraid of aew. the $185 million number was bullshit. the buyer universe was shrinking. paramount / skydance was coming for wbd. wbd was not going to be some permanent aew safe house. youtube was only ever a real “option” if someone at google was actually cutting a media rights check and underwriting production. not because every divorced mom with a ring light and a gmail account can upload video to the same platform. that was always the distinction. that is still the distinction. Nick LoPiccolo — February 28, 2025 “YouTube is an option the same way you or I could start a YT channel tomorrow. Is Jon Cruz cutting AEW a media rights check or underwriting a production budget? Hell no. Just the reality. It isn’t the model. Jon is global head of sports over there.” that was february, not last week. not after dave meltzer suddenly discovered youtube prelim numbers like columbus finding the new world. it is becoming inevitable now. Nick LoPiccolo — April 30, 2026 — 11:26 AM — 251.2K Views “to every journalist and every podcast who interviews tony khan from this day forward: please ask tony if wbd told him back in august they would not be renewing aew. wbd told him in august. i confirmed it directly and triple sourced it. please ask why tony has been acting like nothing is wrong for the last 8 months, and then please ask tony what his actual distribution plan is. because the only distributor left that will take aew is google/youtube. the myaew app is not realistic. the my aewapp is a death sentence in 2026 if youtube doesn’t make an mg deal for aew. they started building it too late and there is no realistic way to scale it. also, who is going to sell ads for the platform? kiswe is not the best. they built the myaew app. they are new to the game. hold tony’s feet to the fire. Paramount is not real for aew. WBD passed back in August. CW/Roku is now off the table. Amazon and Fox do not want AEW. ask Tony why he's been lying to you and to the locker room and to the fans, acting like things are all great with the network? i am sure a lot of people would love to hear his answer.” april 30. 251.2k views. not whispered. not hidden. not vague. not “high level wwe officials.” i said it publicly and directly: wbd passed back in august. paramount is not real for aew. cw / roku is off the table. amazon and fox do not want aew. the myaew app is not realistic. google / youtube is the only distributor left on the board that makes sense. that is the actual story tony khan does not want to answer. not “why would wwe say this?” ask tony khan if wbd told him in august that wbd would not be renewing aew. ask what his actual distribution plan is. ask who is selling ads for the myaew app. ask how a platform built this late scales in 2026. ask whether youtube is an actual rights partner with an mg, or just the place you go when the real buyers are gone. that is the question. not the fake question dave meltzer laundered into “high level wwe officials.” the real question. Nick LoPiccolo — July 9, 2025 — 10:51 AM — 9,565 Views “No one in Hollywood believes the $185 million number.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 9, 2025 — 11:35 AM — 7,470 Views “The $185 million figure is inflated. Variety’s October 2, 2024 article was likely updated after a publicist called on AEW’s behalf, as early reports placed the deal between $140 and $150 million per year. Tony Khan was also included in Variety’s Dealmakers 2024 list, which, while not officially pay to play, strongly favors those spending significant advertising dollars with the outlet. No one in Hollywood seriously believes WBD, which is in junk bond status, is paying AEW $185 million per year. Clear enough?” clear enough? the number was never clean. the number was never real in the way aew fans and wrestling media pretended it was real. and when the $185 million number started getting laughed out of adult rooms, the number magically became $178 million. that is where the shell game gets funny. because $178 million was not some sacred sourced number either. it was brandon thurston taking the median between $170 million, reported by sports business journal, and $185 million, reported by variety and others. that is literally what wrestlenomics said. Wrestlenomics — October 4, 2024 “Why use $178 million here for AEW’s new deal when some outlets are reporting the average annual value is $185 million?” Wrestlenomics — October 4, 2024 “I used $178 million here because it is simply the median of $170 million, as reported by Sports Business Journal, and $185 million, reported by Variety and others.” there it is. arithmetic. not an all-cash rights fee. not a clean license number. not proof wbd valued aew like raw. not a finance-department document from warner bros. discovery. a midpoint between conflicting public reports. then wrestling media treated that midpoint like scripture because they needed the story to be “aew is valued like raw,” not “aew pr inflated a number no serious person in hollywood believed.” and by the way, $170 million was not the clean all-cash number either. that is the scam. float the number. repeat the number. launder the number. defend the number with people who do not understand the difference between cash rights fees, in-kind services, equity, marketing commitments, platform value, make-goods, ad inventory, and press release math. then when the number collapses, pretend the next number was always the number. that is not reporting. that is aew state news. Nick LoPiccolo — July 10, 2025 — 5:53 AM — 12.6K Views “AEW isn’t leverage. It’s not competition. It’s a niche product with loud fans and limited reach.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 10, 2025 — 8:56 AM — 1,018 Views “We handle wrestling deals too, but thinking we need AEW for leverage is myopic. The landscape is changing and the game I’m playing is different.” Nick LoPiccolo — July 15, 2025 — 25.7K Views “AEW isn’t leverage.” that was never emotional. that was never tribal. that was never “i hate aew.” it was market structure. wwe did not need aew as leverage because real leverage was never “another wrestling show exists.” real leverage is architecture, scale, subscriber churn, platform strategy, sports adjacency, global rights, advertising, sponsorship, live inventory, library value, data, brand safety, executive relationships, and the actual buyer universe of maybe 18-20 companies in the united states that matter for live sports rights. aew fans thought this was a wrestling argument. it was never a wrestling argument. it was a board. and the board was already moving. Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 482 Views “I wasn’t viewing the above in that context (TKO vs AEW counter programming), it was more of this is what I’m hearing after 2 weeks of big media deals rolling out (Skydance closing, South Park library moving) etc. Which have all been in the works for awhile.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 388 Views “But if you were to look at it from a counter programming perspective (and I don’t think this was a factor in UFC deal) - there are only so many players for these big media rights deals. PARA is likely off the board (via TKO deal) & then what if they acquire WB in 2026/27?” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 535 Views “Yes, of course, that wouldn’t mean the end for AEW. It would make navigating their media rights deal more challenging, I would guess. But this is a hypothetical scenario & I do not believe anyone is paying $7.7b for UFC or a $40b valuation for WB w/ how do we fuck AEW, either.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 “And hearing all weekend Paramount is still interested in WBD.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 1.3K Views “I think more interesting for what it could mean as the dominoes keep falling in terms of the still evolving landscape. The deals are massive & the number of major players at the top are shrinking as still big push for consolidation & scale.” Nick LoPiccolo — August 11, 2025 — 12:11 PM — 2,588 Views “And I’d view AAA on Google/YouTube as directly competitive. It targets both the CMLL collab & the audience that used to watch AEW Dark on YouTube, & WWE is able to send well known stars to AAA events with an eye towards converting more of the younger, YouTube demo of viewers who don’t watch streamers.” again: august 11. not yesterday. not after dave meltzer tweeted a netflix prelim number. not after anyone had to retrofit the argument. the point was already there: the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, paramount was likely off the board for aew because of the tko deal, google / youtube was becoming directly competitive for the exact audience aew used to reach through dark, and the buyer universe was consolidating around deals much bigger than tony khan’s feelings. this was not mysticism. this was not inside baseball for the sake of sounding smart. this was the board. Nick LoPiccolo — August 24, 2025 “This isn’t fair. I misread your question. AEW will exist but likely on the Discovery Global app (if it ever launches, I would bet that it doesn’t) and it will continue to do consistent ratings. If Paramount/Skydance buys WBD in a year…” Nick LoPiccolo — September 4, 2025 — 76 Views “No, that’s the WBD network division (cable, news, sports) that was already announced as being spun off under Discovery Global. The article you’re citing is about them selling a minority equity stake in that unit to cut debt and boost valuation ahead of the 2026 split.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 16, 2025 — 3.6K Views “This is not just about Hollywood scale. It is the foundation of a conservative aligned media infrastructure. A Paramount/WBD merger would fold CBS, CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros IP into Ellison’s orbit under Trump’s regulatory umbrella.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 16, 2025 — 11K Views “Within 48 hours of the rumor, WBD stock surged ~55% and Paramount Skydance rose ~24%. That market response itself boxed David Zaslav in; his board, Wall Street, and his own contract now expect movement.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 27, 2025 — 12:16 PM — 3,516 Views “Nah homie. Enjoy watching the show on YouTube after Ellison buys WBD and Ari who is advising Ellison and used to represent Trump and runs TKO makes the call.” Nick LoPiccolo — September 28, 2025 — 174 Views “I believe if and when Paramount acquires WBD, TKO will push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. The long knives are already out for competitors, and the rights deals have likely been spread around town precisely to keep rivals from signing with those streamers.” none of that was random. paramount / skydance, ellison, ari, tko, wbd linear assets, youtube, aaa, the tko deal, the wbd split, the shrinking rights buyer universe — all of it was one connected domestic rights architecture. that is why this conversation was always over the heads of the people screaming “cope” in my replies. they were arguing like fans. i was reading the cap table. Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “Yes, I always believed Paramount would walk away with WBD. I was one of the first to talk about it on here, even if I wasn’t the first to hear it. The Paramount Skydance acquisition closed on August 7. I posted this on August 11, about 1 month before the The Wall Street Journal first broke the news on September 12 that Paramount Skydance was preparing a bid for WBD.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “The bid was always going to be hostile. We are only in this process because it was a hostile bid. Most people in Hollywood believed Ellison long coveted WB and Jack Warner’s chair. WB was not for sale when Skydance acquired Paramount, which is much smaller in scale.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 6, 2025 — 3:07 PM — 41.4K Views “Nearly everyone in town assumed an Ellison acquisition of WBD was inevitable until the Netflix bid shocked everyone. Signs were there for the last two weeks, which is also when I stopped posting about what might happen. Of course, its not over yet. Paramount still has paths to winning this acquisition. The one thing that’s for certain though is an Ellison-led acquisition of WBD is no longer inevitable.” Nick LoPiccolo — December 8, 2025 “END CREDITS” space jam is a warner bros. movie. that was the joke. and the joke was the same thing i had been saying the whole time: paramount was winning the bid, for those who did not understand. Nick LoPiccolo — December 19, 2025 — 4:30 PM — 828 Views “Here is another reference to it. So tell me how exactly is Paramount the better outcome for Dave’s argument? Netflix doesn’t touch the WBD linear assets. Gunnar keeps his SpinCo.” Puck excerpt — December 19, 2025 “Many industry insiders are also skeptical about Paramount’s seven-year, $7.7 billion deal for exclusive UFC rights in the U.S. Yes, it can be read as a signal that Ellison came to play. But some people see it more as Ari Emanuel having his way with the person to whom he is ostensibly an (unpaid) advisor…” that is the board. that is the relationship map. that is the thing wrestling media either does not understand or pretends not to understand, because understanding it means admitting the story is not “aew has leverage.” the story is that aew is sitting in the middle of a consolidating rights marketplace where the people with leverage are doing much bigger things than worrying about tony khan’s feelings. Nick LoPiccolo — January 21, 2026 — 4:22 PM — 870 Views “i mean get ready to learn youtube buddy” Nick LoPiccolo — February 19, 2026 — 2.8K Views “Paramount was always my bet to acquire Warner Bros. Never wavered.” Nick LoPiccolo — February 28, 2026 — 1:27 PM — 118 Views “you don’t need to look under a hood I AM SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 I BEEN SAYING IT SINCE JULY / AUGUST 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 PARAMOUNT IS COMING FOR WBD AEW WILL LOSE A TV DEAL 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT 💀” so no, this is not hindsight. this is not showing up after the fact with a flashlight and pretending i discovered the body. this is a paper trail. february: youtube is not a real rights model unless google is cutting the check. april: wbd passed back in august, the myaew app is not realistic, paramount is not real for aew, cw / roku is off the table, amazon and fox do not want aew, and google / youtube is the only distributor left that makes sense. july: the $185 million number is inflated and aew is not leverage. august: the buyer board is shrinking, paramount is still interested in wbd, and google / youtube becomes directly competitive. september: paramount / wbd folds the board into ellison’s orbit, and if ellison buys wbd, enjoy youtube. december: paramount was always the bet, the bid was always going to be hostile, and netflix does not solve dave meltzer’s argument because netflix does not touch the linear assets. january: get ready to learn youtube. february: paramount is coming for wbd and aew will lose a tv deal. same board. same thesis. same answer. now here is the part tony khan and dave meltzer do not want to say out loud. tony khan and dave meltzer do not mention me publicly for a reason. because the second they say my name out loud, they admit where this conversation has actually been coming from. not wwe. not some anonymous “high level official.” not some shadowy tko whisper campaign. me. that is the problem for them. behind the scenes, ask any real insider what happens when my name comes up around this subject. there is a reaction. not because i’m magic. not because i’m some internet boogeyman. because they know exactly who is saying it, why i’m saying it, what rooms i have been in, what companies i have dealt with, what executives i have spoken to, and why the analysis keeps landing. that is why they keep trying to non-person me publicly while reacting to me privately. they want the argument. they want the benefit of responding to the argument. they just do not want to admit whose argument it is. when i said wbd told aew back in august 2025 they were not exercising the option for the fourth year, tony khan blew up behind the scenes and forced john mcmullen to revise / update his article 2-3 weeks ago after i tweeted it. which is hilarious because that should not even be crazy or damaging “news.” that is how this business works. when a distributor is not continuing, they tell you early enough so you have time to find a new home. that is not sabotage. that is not wwe. that is not nick lopiccolo hiding inside david zaslav’s air vents with a clipboard. that is corporate courtesy. wbd execs privately whisper and shake their heads at tony khan’s behavior because their view is very simple: why does tony khan act like everything is great and rainbows and sunshine with the studio? we told tony khan as a courtesy so tony khan would have time to find a new home. and no, this has zero to do with paramount looming as an excuse. paramount did not even make its first hostile bid for wbd until september 11 or 12. that was after tony khan was already told there would not be a wbd renewal. so what did tony khan do? tony khan turned the truth into a wrestling angle. tony khan, or one of tony khan’s minions, gets dave meltzer to drop a story assigning my claims and what i have been publicly posting about tony khan to “high level wwe officials.” why? because it gives tony khan a safer enemy. tony khan does not want the story to be the actual timeline. because the actual timeline is brutal. on february 28, i said youtube was not a real media rights model unless google was actually cutting the check and underwriting production. on april 30, i said wbd passed in august, the myaew app was not realistic, paramount was not real for aew, cw / roku was off the table, amazon and fox did not want aew, and the only distributor left that made sense was google / youtube. on july 9, i said no one in hollywood believed the $185 million number. on july 10, i said aew was not leverage. on august 11, i said the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, and google / youtube was becoming a directly competitive lane. on september 16, i said a paramount / wbd merger would fold cbs, cnn, hbo, and warner bros. ip into ellison’s orbit. on september 27, i said enjoy the show on youtube after ellison buys wbd. on september 28, i said if paramount acquires wbd, tko would push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. on december 6, i said paramount skydance was preparing a bid for wbd long before most people admitted the obvious. on february 19, i said paramount was always my bet to acquire warner bros. and on february 28, i said it in all caps: paramount is coming for wbd. aew will lose a tv deal. that is the part tony khan cannot answer directly, because the direct answer means admitting this was never “wwe is scared of us.” it was always the board closing. tony khan wants the story to be: why would wwe say this about us? that is the laundering operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a show with very little distribution answering a canned question about aew potentially having very little distribution. based on a planted story, from a planted messenger, with a rehearsed answer, after an roh show maybe 8-15k people watched. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says “i don’t know why wwe would…” tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the very thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. a canned and rehearsed answer at an roh media scrum about a planted dave meltzer story based on my very real and very public analysis of the media rights board. but make no mistake. tony khan was responding to my words. tony khan just laundered them through dave meltzer and assigned them to wwe / tko so tony khan could keep lying about it publicly without ever saying my name. and now, voila. dave meltzer is posting about youtube viewers and prelims. Dave Meltzer — May 16, 2026 “At this moment there are 340,000 people watching prelims for Netflix on YouTube. It’s a good number.” yes, dave meltzer. youtube can have good numbers. nobody said youtube cannot have good numbers. that was never the issue. the issue is whether youtube is being used as a funnel into a premium rights ecosystem or as a substitute because the premium rights ecosystem rejected you. that is the difference. that has always been the difference. netflix using youtube prelims as audience acquisition is not the same thing as aew trying to spin youtube as a media rights home because the real buyers are gone. ufc using youtube as a funnel is not the same thing as aew using youtube as a life raft. wwe sending stars to aaa on youtube to convert a younger demo is not the same thing as aew retreating to youtube after the traditional buyer board closes. and the fact that dave meltzer is now suddenly tweeting like the mayor of youtube is the punchline. because the same people who mocked the youtube outcome are now going to spend the next several months explaining why youtube is actually good. of course it can be good. for the right use case. for the right property. inside the right architecture. with the right check attached. but when you spend two years telling everyone you were valued like raw and your next stop is “please subscribe and smash that bell,” maybe stop pretending this is victory formation? i told y’all where this was going. the record is right there. i’m still right. and tony and dave: you guys are see through translucent. that’s it for ye 🎤🎤🎤

Nick LoPiccolo

99,106 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce