 Hi everyone, this is Chih-choo. Welcome to my channel. As you can tell with my voice I'm a little bit under the weather school starting sort of flu season, I guess and I'm usually pretty good. I usually don't get hit because I build up my system world of years interacting with a lot of teenagers and tweens and stuff like this because the school as soon as usually when school starts when you bring a whole bunch of people together, a whole bunch of kids together that have either been traveling or doing whatever Flu goes around You can't avoid it And it's good and bad, you know bad because it Takes you down for a few days. Maybe sometimes a little bit longer. I just recently got my voice back So what is the first thing Chih-choo does when he gets his voice back? He makes an update video, right? But the plus side of that is it builds up your immune system and I'm pretty good at that But this year I ended up getting hit which is not a bad thing. You know, what is that saying that I think was Nietzsche That said doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't know if that's the case For every situation, but it is it is building it is for building up your immune system, right? So I thought I'd give you guys a little update of What I've been up to while we Sit by the fire and drink a little bit of soothing tea, right? Now the first thing is One thing I've been trying to do What I plan on doing and I will I will be doing is doing live live videos holding live sessions and Right now the system that I have My computer and hardware stuff that I have Is pretty old so I tried doing some of the live stuff on YouTube and it didn't work because my system was too old and I tried some of the other platforms as well and My system isn't able to handle The software needed It's basically my graphics card and probably my processor as well because I'm running on something It's both 78 years old right now processing all these videos and creating all this content and stuff like that, right? So what I ended up doing was Talking to some of the people on patreon or support me on patreon and we did a little test run With one of the supporters on patreon Matthew. Thank you Matthew for Helping me do that little Tesla test run doing a little live session and Matthew he's He's involved in his own projects as well. I brought a little link in the description of this video He's he's trying to put together a movie is called wretch and they just did sort of a Whole bunch of information sharing a whole bunch of information and participate in sort of Another platform where they were trying to get supporters and raise funds and I liked a little preview that they did So Matthew decided to you know help me out on that so we did a little through Google chat, I guess with this sort of live session and We've tried a couple other times to do live session with a couple other at least one other person on patreon But it hasn't worked out yet, and I realized that It's not gonna work out if I just keep it On a download right I do need to upgrade my system. So what I'm gonna be doing is next week Upgrading my system my hardware and my software So it's gonna be You know probably a couple of weeks until I get the stuff get the computer I'm gonna get a sort of a gaming computer sort of mid to high grade Decided to sort of cough up the dough for that because I definitely do need it And I do want to start incorporating live sessions into Into this platform into what we're doing right now because I personally I've learned a lot From you guys from all the feedback that I've been getting from all this content that I've been creating and trying to answer questions, and I hope You know it's also been reciprocated on from my hand I've been sharing a lot of information as well as much as I can And I hope that's been you know helpful to you guys if you've been looking for math content or whatever it is That you've been looking for right so again, this is sort of a P2P P2P for me peer-to-peer It's sharing information sharing Sharing what I love and you guys are doing the same reciprocating to me. So I really appreciate that From your end right So long long update regarding live stuff I am going to be upgrading my system next week and What I've decided to do is not all the live sessions on YouTube. There's multiple reasons for that one of the main ones being that Everything can't be shared on YouTube as you might be aware there's a lot of Censorship going on on certain platforms YouTube being one of them, you know, it is their platform and they're They have the right Excuse me. This is the longest I've talked for a few days. So It is their platform and they have the right to dictate Who they allow on their platform, right? As far as I'm concerned, it would be equivalent to me Inviting people to my home and if they're Misbehaving or they're not I don't want to say misbehaving because the censorship that's happening It's not about misbehaving. It's about not sharing the right ideas, but As far as they're concerned so As far as I'm concerned if I invite someone to my house and I don't agree with their philosophy And I don't really want that information shared within the community that I'm Creating then I have the right to ask them to leave and that's the way I look at it and that's you know, I'm going to ruffle some feathers right now, but That is the way it is and that gives birth to disruptive innovation and that's what's really happening right now, right? YouTube Has sort of a monopoly has had sort of a monopoly for a very very long time, right? But what's happening right now with them with alphabet ink because it's not really google anymore Alphabet ink working on on wall street, right? So they have their first obligation is to shareholder value, right? Not my cup of tea But that's what their first obligation is. That's what it means when you go public to wall street, right? you put out your you know business model and the first priority there is To increase shareholder value, right? I think they're going about the wrong way But it is what they want to do, right? And what that's doing is giving birth To other platforms that are coming up where there's a fair bit of people migrating to those other platforms Now I'm not going to completely go off youtube and I will never go completely go off youtube because as far as I'm concerned I will use every platform at my disposal to share as much information as possible, right? May be regarding mathematics or anything else, right? So I will continue to stay on youtube 100 percent, but what I've decided to do is to do the live sessions on twitch Okay, and I definitely need to upgrade my system for twitch And that's one of the reasons that I'm you know, I will be upgrading my systems and Or system anyway getting a high-end laptop gaming laptop because what I want to do is hold live sessions in different places Not necessarily just sitting down. Maybe sometimes in the kitchen doing some cooking sessions Maybe going out to the park and at some point I'm pretty sure once I start sharing my Putting the video together where I'm showing you some of the Gaming systems that I have some of the games that I've played I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the buck to start Getting into gaming as well. So I would love to love to live stream some gaming sessions as well Okay, so that's just uh one of the updates that we will be Holding live sessions, but it won't be on youtube. It will be on twitch And on twitch as far as I know there is no censorship being you know taking place Okay, and what I will be doing with those Live sessions that we hold on a twitch I will be saving those and editing out anything that is not allowed on youtube And loading those Live sessions onto youtube as well. So you don't necessarily have to go to switch or twitch to Get a feel for what the live sessions are like because I will Edit and load that content onto youtube but youtube as well, but most likely there will be Some sections cut out because what's going to happen with live sessions? Almost anything goes Really almost anything goes that includes politics Okay, because that's one thing I've stayed away from as much as I can anyway on youtube because You know, you could see the censorship coming up from a mile away, right? I've been blogging for a long time and You know, you could see it coming a mile away and that's one reason I sort of Adjusted The way I was sharing information and the type of content I was creating not necessarily The information but the delivery mechanism, right because the delivery the information that I'm sharing is pretty much Straight up the same way. I was doing when I was writing articles political a lot of political articles starting back in 2006 2007, but The delivery is a lot gentler on twitch. It might not be so okay so just a heads up and Right now I've created the content created the channel on twitch Okay, and I'll provide the link in the description of this video as well and the channel is chicho live, okay And there's nothing there right now. It's going to take me a little bit of time to set all this stuff up, right? I I'm not going to get the system until next week. Most likely maybe a couple of weeks Maybe they have to order it for me So it might take, you know, three weeks or so before three or four weeks before I even I'm even ready to do a test run on there. But if you're on twitch The The channel that I've created is chicho live. Okay, and the description will be in this video. Okay That was a main update that I wanted to share The second update is the comic book readings as you can tell You know, we have a whole bunch of readings that we still have to do and I And I stated I was going to try to get them all done in 2017 and that is still my goal But I'm going to I'm going to blow my timeline. I'm not going to the odds are I'm not going to get it done all in 2017. We're getting a whole bunch done in 2017 But probably we're going to roll over into 2018. Okay, and what I'll do is Just to compensate for rolling over taking so so long to do these comic book readings to compensate for rolling over to 2018 I might actually start adding in some other readings in there as well Okay, which I did for one, but unfortunately that had to be taken down For a reason But I'll stay away from the reason of that For future video. Maybe we'll cover that in twitch. Okay during the live sessions So just a heads up. There will be more comic book readings coming up but we're going to roll over in 2018 and The odds are before we get into the comic book readings. I'm going to do a pretty good serious comic book haul that I've been accumulating for the last few months from this one seller on ebay And we finally filled up a box and the box is on its way to me. So I'm going to do a comic book haul With you guys and before we do that comic book haul what I'm going to do most likely is find and Open Find some kind of Open spreadsheet platform creative commas platform somewhere where I don't want it to be on google Because there is censorship happening on google. So I will try to Find some kind of spreadsheet and if you do know of a site that is providing documentation sort of spreadsheet and and Documents that we can create that's going to be open for anyone to edit right sort of a wikipedia sort of type of deal sort of open source creative commas type of stuff What I'm will most likely try to do is take all the comic book haul All the comics in that comic book haul Video that's coming up and list them in that table And I'm going to create some columns most likely I'll try to get to it I'm not I'm so sure if I will or not, but that's the idea Create some columns on you know different Different variables the you know the grade the price the artist that Created that the date And all that jazz because at some point we're going to take all the comic book haul videos that I've done And that is the plan and Put out put all that stuff in a spreadsheet and Take a look at how that stuff relates to investing and try to come up with some kind of system Where we can actually quantify investing in comic books other than Just slabbing them right I it's for the comic book Excuse me for For the comic book collecting Hobby but it's more a hobby investing we have to sort of go beyond The way it's been working out right now where it's very arbitrary where the price is as you can tell with the previous Comic book haul I did with the cgc Buy that I did with mystic number six where The price I got that it's amazing fantastic that I can get certain things that are worth In my opinion So much more than what I'm paying for them fantastic But I think what I what's going to happen in the future is this is going to be more quantified There's going to be less fluctuation in prices and more stable prices for collections, right? So that will be sort of the first step creating that spreadsheet Possibly putting on some mathematics on there and taking a look at different variables For each issue and see how the prices fluctuate over time, right? I'm really looking forward to it I actually have a lot of stuff laid out my apologies if I'm not going to detail with it and sort of Mumbling my way through this update, but I just recently got my voice back and my energy level is extremely extremely low but of I really wanted to share this information. I really wanted to give you guys the update regarding this Um, another thing is I almost finished there about a silver thorn, right? And I was thinking about doing sort of a Book review of silver thorn vice silver thorn riff or saga just for this, but I don't think they're going to wrap it up What's happening in this book in this amount of In this many pages, right? It's going to roll over So the odds are unless things wrap up in this This epic tale that they're telling Very quickly. I'm going to wait until I read the fourth book in the series Before I do a review of this Fantastic Really, I love the darkness of it. So fun. So fun. Thank you very much for recommending this Okay Fantastic fantastic Okay, uh, just a couple of more couple more things I wanted to mention One of them was the previous video that I uploaded which was sort of how to play monopoly the The sort of variant rules that we use with our gaming Group that we have and I love the way the video came out. Um, I love that game It's been with me for a very very long time. One of the first games I ever learned how to play and it will be one of the last games I ever played in my life, right? But what I did with that video and the rules I sort of typed out on on my blog Right and the tables are available on my blog as well. I sort of took that information and posted it on a Gaming forum, right? And I didn't realize this but there's a lot of hate on monopoly And some people commented saying that they hated monopoly what a stupid game it was and all that jazz, right? And that was Flower gas that I was blown away. I could believe there was there were so many haters so many people that actually hated monopoly Right and I got in some discussions with some of the people and they were basically saying that The game is flawed in design, right? And everyone has already agreed on this They've done the analysis on this and all this jazz, right? And I went on to a couple of gaming forum gaming Gaming sites where they rank games and I saw the monopolies rank very low Right and there were those conversations I mentioned that would play a lot of diplomacy and access and allies and The main three games that would play board games that would play anyways access and allies diplomacy and monopoly And you know someone commented that you know on that forum They love access and allies diplomacy. They just don't like monopoly because it's a flawed game by design And I sort of kept on mentioning that that was the whole purpose of monopoly Because it was supposed to be supposed to be a mirror of our flawed economic system So our economic system is flawed by design, right? As is monopoly flawed by design, but that doesn't take away From the joy you can get from this game, right? It takes away from the fairness of The inequality that's present in our current economic system in our societies across the globe Right and I agree with that our current economic system is 100% flawed Which is one of the reasons that I started creating math videos regarding the mathematics of economics and investing and all that jazz, right? And that's the way we're going to approach politics, right? And I agree with that if this game Right the rules for this game were the rules for a current economic system, which they are Then I would say it's not a good game It's not a good economic system, right? But monopoly is a game and you can change the rules if you like just the way you can change the rules in our present economic system If you like if the power is there if we have the ability to do it, right? Monopoly is an amazing game if you know the rules if you know the flaws in the system and you can manipulate manipulate those rules, right? That's what monopoly is. It's a fantastic game. So for anyone that has You know played monopoly when they were younger Has graduated to more Intense games and I did as well one of the most amazing games I ever played I wish I could find someone to play with now Is Squad leader avalon hill squad leader, which would start the games on Friday night and end them on a Sunday morning, right? We're playing for like 40 hours straight. What an amazing game, right? It would incorporate The mathematics of it all it would incorporate the stress of war. It would incorporate all the different elements of Of Fantastic game, but that didn't mean I didn't still like monopoly, right? So for anyone that Really doesn't think that monopoly is a fantastic game. I highly recommend reading the rules Try some different variants put some people together Put a gaming group together people that love interaction Communication bargaining dealing rolling dice luck chance Counting money management and try monopoly. Okay, it deserves Uh a lot more respect than people are giving it. Okay The the last little thing I wanted to mention is that I mentioned in previous video that I'm going to start loading up Videos regarding, you know, just giving you guys some advice talking about the business model that I'm following And loading up videos on education. Okay I have some stuff laid out for advice and they will be coming up And I spent some time during my downtime right now where I really didn't have a voice And I laid out some videos to do or one Some topics to talk about regarding education as you can tell education is pretty dear of my heart And what I'm going to do with education is I'm going to create a playlist sharing some of the tools at my disposal Some of the tricks of the trade that I have for teaching mathematics, right? So education That's that information is going to go into education But it's also going to go into a playlist called How to teach mathematics? Okay, so how to teach mathematics videos are going to be overlapped with education And those videos how to teach mathematics are not going to really have my personal opinion on education To a certain degree there will be some on education or a current education system But there'll be more of some of the things I use to teach mathematics Right and one of the reasons I decided to do this is because I know over the years I've had a lot of teachers educators parents Even students tell me that they're using my videos to learn and to teach I've had teachers From multiple countries sent me, you know asked my for my permission to show my videos In their classrooms and by all means if you're if you want to show my math videos in your classroom with your group Share it with whoever you want. Please do so. That's my stuff is creative comments I'm doing this because I I believe the world would be a much better place If everyone in the world was literate in language of mathematics because well for multiple reasons One of the reasons Because monopoly because our current economic system is flawed Just the way the game of monopoly was designed to be flawed our current economic system was designed To be flawed right was the design to create inequality the caste system a class system Right, so please share that information a lot of mathematics videos I've done the syntax of the language of mathematics and the language of mathematics, right those videos I try to Put a filter on myself and I'm okay with censorship putting a filter on yourself If there is a more important point that you're trying to get across right and I've put a filter on myself for a lot of those videos to Make sure that it was More geared towards teaching math not geared towards giving my opinion about how math should be used Okay So there will be a playlist being created for how to teach mathematics And that will be overlaid with education And I've laid out some videos some topics that I want to talk about regarding education and that stuff is I'm going to remove some of the filters that I've put on myself That stuff is going to have a lot of my personal opinion In it Okay, I'm going to ruffle some feathers really I'm letting you know right now I'm going to ruffle some feathers and the more feathers are ruffled or ruffle. I don't know the terminology because I think ruffle The better in my opinion because as you know, I've mentioned this before our education system is designed to be flawed it's basically The same way our current economic system has set has been set up It's been designed to create create inequalities been designed to create a caste system a class system Our education system is the same way. It is flawed to the core And I'm going to talk about that. There's a few topics I want to cover and what I'm going to do most likely Is create long videos where I'm going to hit up a few different topics in an asmr Format and I'll talk about this a lot more once I get my voice back Uh, but they're going to be extended videos where I'm going to talk about a lot of different topics Okay, and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to break up those videos And specifically just really short videos on certain issues. Okay I don't know if I'll do for all of them, but I will do for some So that's my little update that I wanted to give you while I sort of recoup from From a flu season, I guess I don't know if it's a flu season. It's Back-to-school flu season Building up my immune system. That's sort of the way I look at it. And sometimes it's good to have a little downtime and just chill and Do nothing and let the mind wander dream delicious Herbal teas and give the Vocal cords a little break. That's it for now. I'll be back as soon as I can And I'm not sure what I'm going to start off with The plan was before I got hit before I got taken out right now Before I lost my voice to Do some ASMR math videos and I think I will do at least one ASMR math video And that one I think I'm pretty sure is going to be related on how I teach mathematics So that's stuff how I teach mathematics. Some of the will be Overlaid with ASMR math as well, right? As you can tell there's a lot of layering going on with the content that I'm creating because I try to Share as much as I can sometimes I share a little bit too much But I do try to share as much as I can sort of reciprocate some of the Love that I'm getting from you guys from this community and some of the amazing amazing Recommendations and information that's being shared with me may be regarding comic books readings mathematics science technology whatever it may be Okay So until the next video Bye for now