AJ Pickett - Mutant Animals and Bio-E Points (TMNT RPG)

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  • @ThewarriorDraganta
    @ThewarriorDraganta 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Palladium is actually currently running a Kickstarter campaign to remake TMNT & Other Strangeness, which is pretty cool since your Palladium videos make the Megaversal system seem awesome!

  • @MyMomSaysImKeen
    @MyMomSaysImKeen ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Aj is always shelling out totally tubular content.

  • @DracosDiabolis
    @DracosDiabolis ปีที่แล้ว +5

    lmao, you put Rocket Raccoon onscreen near the end. and talking about Rifts lol, my brain kinda chuckles and thought Rocket Raccoon: COSMO KNIGHT

  • @Buddy74656
    @Buddy74656 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I loved the mutant animals from TMNT and Heroes Unlimited, they were a lot of fun.

  • @erroneous6947
    @erroneous6947 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The “After the bomb” setting was cool too.

  • @krispalermo8133
    @krispalermo8133 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember the days when parents tell their children, " You can have a Nintendo OR a Saga, not both."
    Late 1980's to early 90's, my state min wage was around $3/hr. So a $20 or $40 rpg book was one to two days worth of wages.
    Having multiple gaming books were looked at having multiple video game systems.
    When TMNT came out Pizza Hut had a family size deal that you could buy a VHS video tape for the VCR.
    Some during the summer months, in junior high school, we counted the action beats to the cartoon and used Basic Red Box D&D to run a TMNT ttrpg.
    Due to the mount of effort we put into creating a D&D rule set to run a TMNT ttrpg, mom just got us the book to play with.

  • @erroneous6947
    @erroneous6947 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The pictures of roo’s holding uzi’s reminds me of the Humma in star frontiers.

    • @randallbaumgardt3424
      @randallbaumgardt3424 ปีที่แล้ว

      I laughed at the GM the first time he trotted out the Humma. So did not end well for my character.

  • @chriscalvin5083
    @chriscalvin5083 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Glad you covered this AJ

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว

      More to come Chris, I got a lot of requests!

  • @cernunnos_lives
    @cernunnos_lives ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Damn all this Palladium stuff brings me back decades ago now lol. This system is what made me explore different styles of gaming and thinking laterally.
    I loved how this system always felt like it should take place in Australia (Oceania really). Because of TTMNT and the supplemental material.
    But the system is so good with any backdrop.

  • @CapnSnackbeard
    @CapnSnackbeard ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everything I know about the Dim Mak Death Touch I learned from Ninjas and Superspies.

  • @philurbaniak1811
    @philurbaniak1811 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    👍👍😁
    "Nobody wants TMNT content!"
    "Hold my rock steady"

  • @dbensdrawinvids8390
    @dbensdrawinvids8390 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd like to see a deeper look into how Palladium Megaversal handles superspies if you ever happen to get a chance.

  • @juliusheart2667
    @juliusheart2667 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Played nearly all the Palladium games... I think tmnt and Robotech we're my favourites...

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is one I never played, but would love to!

  • @adreabrooks11
    @adreabrooks11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Two examples of "mighty embryos" in my game were Songbird - a blue jay who spent none of her Bio-E on human features, except for tiny arms hidden beneath her wings. Everything else went on psionics. Nobody ever suspected that the blue-jay watching them from the edge of the park (or the shoulder of a comrade indoors) was the one stunning all the baddies with Bio-Manipulation or putting them in a hallucinatory prison with Mind Trap.
    The other was Tom Thumb, a pocket-sized elephant who got up to similar hijinks, after spending all his size to "buy back" his animal features and purchase powers.
    For those who are intertested, I dully recommend the (still available) After the Bomb Revised Edition - which Wujcik produced just before his death. In my opinion, it's the best of Palladium's mildly-variant rules packages, and the setting is just straight-up fun!

  • @keithfta789
    @keithfta789 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Absolutely loving the old school palladium content!
    Same day I heard about this latest WotC debacle I went and grabbed 7 palladium books for the price of 2 DnD ones. Peace out wotc. Not going back.

  • @vandals4873
    @vandals4873 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like the universe is telling me something... recently found the out of print books for a really good deal, Cartoonist Kayfabe channel just wrapped a series of interviews with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (highly recommend), and now AJ is covering Palladium Books and TMNT. This is fantastic

  • @therealGibralter
    @therealGibralter ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My first character in Heroes Unlimited was a mutant animal. He was a hardcore biker cat with a bionic arm. Sure he got totally obliterated by the Master of Speed but he was still fun to play.

  • @jaredeschweiler3505
    @jaredeschweiler3505 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I owned all these books. Played and DMed TMNT for years! It is amazing. The CGI nickelodeon TMNT series final season features "Tales of the Turtles" a sort of anthology series of individual stories about 4 episodes long each, my boys were watching it and I realized that one of them was 100% the Road Hogs supplement from TMNT RPG, my level of joy made my son's cringe.

  • @chrismcguinness5405
    @chrismcguinness5405 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TNMT was my first REAL rpg experience! man good memories hiding in the back to the cloakroom gaming! Thanks Alan!!!

  • @arcanescroll
    @arcanescroll ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've always loved the After The Bomb setting and the mutant animal rules are just about perfect. Sadly, ever since Erick passed, Kevin hasn't known what to do with the series. AtB was always Erick's baby.

  • @blueturtle06
    @blueturtle06 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Out of all the games I have made characters for, TMNT was the ultimate. I loved how varied you could create your animal character and how they kept updating with new animal stat blocks. A very underated RPG.

  • @marcusblackwell2372
    @marcusblackwell2372 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the last thing I expected to have an RPG. Now we just need a videogame

    • @johnstuartkeller5244
      @johnstuartkeller5244 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My vote for never-expected-game is the Dallas TV Show ttrpg.

    • @CapnSnackbeard
      @CapnSnackbeard ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are many TMNT videogames, but not Palladium based ones.

    • @danielderamus9573
      @danielderamus9573 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CapnSnackbeard isn’t the tmnt for snes like one the hardest games of all time? I’m pretty sure I broke a few controllers over those damn electric seaweed things

    • @marcusblackwell2372
      @marcusblackwell2372 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@CapnSnackbeard I meant like Palladium or open world

    • @CapnSnackbeard
      @CapnSnackbeard ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@danielderamus9573 i remember the TMNT ripoff "Battle Toads" was ridiculously hard, but not sure about TMNT itself. I played it, but it was a long, long time ago.

  • @groothewanderer9472
    @groothewanderer9472 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this was the first ttrpg i ever played, thank you

  • @reapersritehand
    @reapersritehand ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I always felt robbed by bio-e points, like it feels impossible to be bipedal, human size, with hands, and get a cool power from points, im not saying i need a bazillion points, it just be nice to have like 1 or 2 minor powers to stick out, it is still one of my favorite classes and games

  • @randallbaumgardt3424
    @randallbaumgardt3424 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved this game. May have to pull it out again. Also been enjoying the Rifts videos. Brings back so many memories. Thank you so much.

  • @oldeskul
    @oldeskul ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video. A lot of new players to Palladium might not have heard of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Other Strangeness or the second edition Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and More Strangeness. I've never seen an IRL copy of either of those two, but I know someone who downloaded the torrent of the second edition and I got a chance to look at it in PDF.
    I love that Palladium Books is the oddball of the ttrpg-verse.
    There is one book that Palladium publishes that stands apart and is the oddball game, and that's saying a lot. Recon. I owned a copy of it once but never got a chance to play a single game as my troupe never wanted to play it.

  • @VerityAran
    @VerityAran ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing. I have never played with other people but I used to have some of the TMNT source books and spent hours making up my own characters. I used them to fuel my own short stories.
    This takes me back.
    Thanks AJ

  • @justinmarino5601
    @justinmarino5601 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember thumbing through a couple of TMNT adventure modules as a kid not knowing what they were about but being fascinated by the artwork. I was a TMNT cartoon lover and this mature take on my beloved characters enthralled me. That fact that I had no idea what half of it was saying only heightened the mystery for me.

  • @That80sGuy1972
    @That80sGuy1972 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the system that introduced me into Palladium books RPG's... and I loved it best, especially After the Bomb with Mutants Down Under second to that.
    This was my GURPS before I got into GURPS. The only RPG system I was far more dedicated to was my homebrew version of 2nd Ed AD&D.
    And, yes, I was also one of those OG TMNT guys who was both loving and HATING the TMNT cartoon... and seeing it (cartoon and later TMNT) as a completely different world (universe) than the REAL TMNT. You and I would probably be those cranky old codgers on rocking chairs having that exact conversation in the real world sometime in the future.

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As for my peer group at our given junior high school age, I had to run TMNT as the action was in the cartoon or they will just beat each other with plastic baseball bats.
      As for TMNT alignment system and bonus Xp for given actions, we cross that into our AD&D games.
      Any ways, we take the stats of the TMNT characters and watched the VHR tape cartoon then stop the tape replay a given action scene and ran that encounter with the TMNT rules.
      When I was around my mid 20's with 2006 TMNT series, I did the same thing for my 13yo cousins. Love or hate those cartoons, they were handy in learn how to run action beats for ttrpg.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@krispalermo8133 I was one who BOTH loved AND hated the TMNT cartoon and movie interpretations. Just see them as alternative universe (wussy) versions of the OG TMNTurtles, and it's all good.

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@That80sGuy1972 Felt the same way with the earl 1990's X-Men cartoon, in the cartoon Wolverine vs Sabertooth was just too campy. At least the comic version of the Artic episode shown some blood, but not a PG kid friendly cartoon. On the Plus Side, .. Rogue was wonderfully animated in many episodes.
      Looking back on the late 1980's TMNT cartoon with YT, Crang & Shredder comes off as an old married couple so bored they lampoon trying to take over NYC and the world just to have something to do.
      2.) The cross over comic series along with the movie Batman:TMNT turn out being a fun watch/read. The series covers about a 5year running joke in the Batman series, Bruce & his son Daemion run on a low carb Keto diet to keep their athletic capabilities at top form, which Dick/Nightwing is show with his tie ins eating pizza and breakfast cereals. Alfred sneaks carb treats to Daemion when Bruce leaves the cave.

  • @almitrahopkins1873
    @almitrahopkins1873 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I could get in so much trouble with that. A mutant squirrel pilot named Rocky would be a giggle and a half, assuming anyone caught the joke.

    • @DracosDiabolis
      @DracosDiabolis ปีที่แล้ว +3

      co-pilot nees to a mutant moose names Bullwinkle

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DracosDiabolis That's two out of the party...

    • @DracosDiabolis
      @DracosDiabolis ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@almitrahopkins1873 roflmao!!

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DracosDiabolis Maybe a mutant mouse with super intelligence and a penchant for planning world domination?

  • @danielderamus9573
    @danielderamus9573 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great work! More Palladium please for me. I grew up on this system too, and tmnt was the first palladium game I played. I didn’t find the game till after the cartoon but thought it was way better, Casey Jones was actually cool in the old tmnt. How long till you get into the weeds if this system? Like don’t get me wrong the general overview is tugging the nostalgia in me. But I’m honestly curious about how other groups ran combats, interpreted the called shot rules before and after the new west book, how many people actually tried to mix martial arts from ninjas and superspies with heroes unlimited, rifts or tmnt? Really stretching those conversion books ya know.

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah... finally... You have just requested "Combat game mechanics in the Palladium Megaversal rule system"! (I think that will be the last one on the list for a while, it's quite a long list)

  • @m.w.7676
    @m.w.7676 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved this game when I was young. Played it and Robotech quite a bit.

  • @tatsusama3192
    @tatsusama3192 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is such a cool concept. I had no idea I was introduced to the bastardized version of TMNT when I was a kid watching the cartoon😂🍿

  • @gholland6457
    @gholland6457 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Animals with a long build were able to optimize height Bio-E expenditure very well. Animals with a short build stayed relatively small unless you dumped a lot of Bio-E into size. That was the one problem I had with the Bio-E system.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 ปีที่แล้ว

      I noticed that the animals with no animal-based attribute bonuses had the most Bio-E for their size, and thus were best for your custom build. My favorite TMNT characters with the best builds were ones that had no base-animal innate attribute boosts.

  • @kholtsclaw5266
    @kholtsclaw5266 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have this book somewhere

  • @Fure2
    @Fure2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Played this when I was younger. Had a blast! Kinda miss it.

  • @mattnerdy7236
    @mattnerdy7236 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey AJ, really enjoyed this video. Never played that game or even heard of it, lol. I did play Marvel TTRPG in the early 80's, loved it great game. Also I remember someone saying that Conan was the world's first mutant. Mutant abilities are normally triggered by stress (love/hate) when the person is young. It does kinda explain how he got so big under horrific condition, he picked up reading & writing fast for his age, plus the arena fighting and expert martial training so easily, out doing everyone 😮. Marvel did buy the rights to Conan comics back in the day.
    Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!

  • @archmage_of_the_aether
    @archmage_of_the_aether ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks AJ! This is a great system for character creation... But man, we found it awkward for play, for experience points. But the character creation totally compensated!
    I had me one 6000lb giant gerbil (partial human hands, otherwise nothing human) with a minigun strapped to his back. I had a foot-tall blue-ringed octopus psychic assassin, his legs arrayed as hand, foot, hand foot; he'd cartwheel into battle and facehugger his targets. What a blast!

  • @zacharyweaver276
    @zacharyweaver276 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
    HEROES IN A HALF SHELL

  • @MemphiStig
    @MemphiStig 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was still fairly new to D&D when I saw this in a store one day. I knew it was for me. Then I found out it was based on a real comic, and I was really into it for a while, even tho I couldn't get anyone to play it with me. (Luddites!) And then they went all kid-friendly, and it just wasn't the same anymore. I love the game system tho, just wish I could have played it. I rolled up a ton of characters but never got to use them. AND this was the first time I'd seen anyone present an alternative alignment system. I didn't agree with his view of Neutral, but his version of alignment was appropriate to the setting. I give this game (and the video) 5 Old School Feels out of 5!

  • @DavidD8029
    @DavidD8029 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is pretty cool. Thanks for bringing this up.

  • @VanDavis
    @VanDavis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    RE: Mutant Sharks turning heads... I would humbly ask you to picture either Dave Bautista or Fairuza Balk, with dark eyes and semi-sharp teeth, and that sorta grey, pale goth look from 90s vampire flicks.

  • @TyLarson
    @TyLarson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Transdimensional TMNT was a ton of fun.

  • @johnstuartkeller5244
    @johnstuartkeller5244 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I loved creating characters for this game. I hated actually playing anything by Palladium.

    • @CapnSnackbeard
      @CapnSnackbeard ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This sums up the Palladium experience pretty perfectly. Overly meticulous systems are fun to do worldbuilding with, but miserable to play.

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pffft, I can run this system without touching a book, I know it like the back of my hand. Each to their own, but PLENTY of folks have zero issues running this rule system, I am one of them.

    • @johnstuartkeller5244
      @johnstuartkeller5244 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AJPickett More power to ya, mate. Maybe I should have been at your table. I'd like to give it another shot just because I live the setting. Maybe someday.

  • @chadlynch1551
    @chadlynch1551 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you ever want to do a really strange RPG review, look up HOL: Human Occupied Landfill. It's very ... different.

    • @almitrahopkins1873
      @almitrahopkins1873 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The character creation rules for that are in Buttery Wholesomeness along with the LARP game Freebase.

  • @tripp4130
    @tripp4130 ปีที่แล้ว

    As preteens my friends and I played TMNT & Other Strangeness in the mid-late 80's, good times...

  • @HowtoRPG
    @HowtoRPG ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks AJ.

  • @athos1029
    @athos1029 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Look at the back of the Ninjas & Superspies book they give you rules for bringing the O.C.C.s into TMNT.

  • @GamesbyMarcWolff
    @GamesbyMarcWolff ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you AJ

  • @Caffeinated_Kitsune
    @Caffeinated_Kitsune ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Apparently, there's a pdf version available for those interested. Might be worth checking out.

  • @Orcbrother13
    @Orcbrother13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cant wait till you cover heroes unlimited, I loved that game, ran it, played it... was sad when my player group wanted to move away from the system.

  • @carlborneke8641
    @carlborneke8641 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I need to play this game.

  • @jacobwilson8579
    @jacobwilson8579 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please cover the Creamfillians of Low Life a post apocalyptic rpg the Creamfillians are sentient Twinke (yes the snack food) humanoids who hate humanity and id love a 5th edition conversion.
    Thank you tv tropes for showing me these AWSOME things

  • @mrplinkett4429
    @mrplinkett4429 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    TERROR BEARS

  • @TyLarson
    @TyLarson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    After the bomb was a great resource with gamma world to do post apocalypse.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 ปีที่แล้ว

      I DM'd a similar cross-reference inspiration campaign. I used Gamma World OG books for much of the artifacts and other "treasures" too.

  • @joeking3282
    @joeking3282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Honey Badger Mutant would be interesting.

  • @KuLaydMahn
    @KuLaydMahn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tbis was actually my first TTRPG,i didnt know it was separate from the cartoon though. My character was a mutant wolverine who used a bow & explosive arrows, and drove a semi truck. I was 6 or 7, so dont ask me to make sense of it 😅
    Where could you get ahold of these books these days? Just hope to find a used copy to buy online or is there a pdf file you can download?

  • @adamwelch4336
    @adamwelch4336 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You're right! But as a wise man once said video games is a industry and they never learn anything tehehe! 😂

  • @danielderamus9573
    @danielderamus9573 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice call back to mutants downunder, a little bias perhaps lol. But seriously never thought about kangaroos much until that book, then a few years later tank girl movie came out and I already knew the ‘Roos we badass

  • @ToastyRoyale
    @ToastyRoyale ปีที่แล้ว

    Had no idea TMNT had a TTRPG until recently, but I'm fascinated. If there's any more ground you could cover with the game I'd love to watch (and listen).

  • @ericjkier
    @ericjkier ปีที่แล้ว

    My friend hit me up with this, and I was a little scared of the jargon. I think I'll give it a second read.

  • @aces918
    @aces918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it!!!

  • @stanchskate
    @stanchskate ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:22 hay don't kink shame lol

  • @lusolad
    @lusolad ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you do After the Bomb?

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I can

    • @lusolad
      @lusolad ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AJPickett that would be cool.

  • @mrplinkett4429
    @mrplinkett4429 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sometimes I create mutant characters from this book just for fun

  • @dubuyajay9964
    @dubuyajay9964 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please cover the Triceratons.

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually, they are included in my Guide to Extraterrestrials in the patreon exclusive content

  • @lusolad
    @lusolad ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is there anyway to get a reasonably priced copy of this game?

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In original physical print? It would take some sort of rare miracle (old, well preserved box at a yard sale or some such). I can't provide information or links on how you can easily access a PDF scanned copy on the Internet archive.org or pay for a subscription to scribd.com obviously, and of course, there are so many places that will create perfect bound copies of PDFs that they are too numerous to point to anything in your local area with reasonable prices, you know, for legal reasons.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My answer was "no" but now that I read AJ's comment, I see a glimmer of hope.

  • @tonywade7473
    @tonywade7473 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Have you ever thought of doing a video on the jurassic park rpg, I don't think anyone has done a video on that thing.

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean The Lost World Jurassic Park RPG from 1997 or is there a more recent JP RPG?

    • @tonywade7473
      @tonywade7473 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AJPickett it's probably the first, I've only heard of it in a up lore video offhandedly. Specifically that you could play as a Neanderthal.

  • @mrmccranky
    @mrmccranky ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I miss the style of the 80s and 90s books. Everything that comes out now is way too overproduced and pretty

  • @d20avatar
    @d20avatar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Classic

  • @seaborndan
    @seaborndan ปีที่แล้ว

    Original comics’ art and story was so gritty, violent and cool mop. Too bad TMNT wimped out in.

  • @MrPigfarmer23
    @MrPigfarmer23 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved that game, played it before I saw the cartoons, was so disappointed with the cartoons

  • @markeichelberger7951
    @markeichelberger7951 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My first rpg. My first random character was so ineffective and objectively pretty boring 😅 but the novelty of making up this monstrous character and sticking it in this bizarre comic book world really changed my brain.
    I love the Turtles Forever movie, where this version were realised perfectly!

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turtles Forever was an insult to the 80's cartoon.

    • @markeichelberger7951
      @markeichelberger7951 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dubuyajay9964 I've recently watched about 40 episodes of the old cartoon with my son, and I rewatched Forever after watching this ☝. And I respectfully disagree.😃

  • @newtonjay72
    @newtonjay72 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well, this is awkward

    • @AJPickett
      @AJPickett  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL, well of course I have a video on the topic!