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Saturday, 14 March 2026

Why Do We Love Video Games? FREE EBOOK

THE LINK NO LONGER WORKS BUT THE BOOK WILL BE RE_PUBLISHED HERE ON MY BLOG AND I WILL BE BRINGING AN UPDATED VERSION OUT IN 2026

Why Do We Love Video Games? 
A History Of Love 
Written By Scott Jones

Is a free ebook available to read and download from today, in which Scott Jones delves deep inside his thoughts and inside a culture so epic and diverse and discusses in depth all about Video Games. From their rich history to their technological advances to the good side and bad side of gaming to find out why do we love video games. Scott is joined by his friends who take on this topic in this free downloadable ebook from Scott and his friends. This was originally published in 2017. Re uploaded to the blog 2026.

2025 UPDATE - THIS BOOK IS BEING REWORKED BUT FOR NOW PLEASE CONTINUE TO READ THIS FIRST VERSION. 

Sunday, 16 July 2023

Youtube Kills Pain Quest

Dear YouTube,

A video that was released onto my YouTube channel 1stmetalgod was permanently removed via YouTube team on Wednesday 12th July at 1pm. The video was Pain Quest 3 part 2 (hardcore) it contained myself, James Evans and Lewis Griffiths. The video as with any Pain Quest video is starring James Evans hurting himself for the entertainment of others and for a bit of fun and laughs you know. James is fine and was fine from all filming of any PQ related content.

James Evans spawned this series with me filming all for our joint love of Jackass quite frankly. Myself, James and Lewis were all over the age of 18 during the filming. James was the only one being harmed, but you know he consented. YouTube after 12 years of no problems decided to target the video and declare that the video PQ3 Hardcore had scenes of child endangerment, no children were featured, filmed nor harmed in the video, again we are 3 men we are all over the age of 18 in the video. Lewis was the youngest of us at 18, and he did not get hurt. I was filming and I did not get hurt. James got hurt but only got bruises at the best, no major harm or injuries. We never went as far as trying to break any bones with James we and he only did what he wanted to and was comfortable with.

I disputed YouTube's claim as false and provided my evidence and however YouTube did not like what I had to say and they re-reviewed their claim and the video and still then flagged the video as child endangerment and have permanently removed the video from the website. This is a tragic shame for such a small and old YouTube content creator such as myself. There are worse things on YT that are still there. Yet an entertainment purposed video full of laughs is taken down falsely.

I am now unable to do anything further and have lost an old video for wrongful doings. YouTube your entire team are a bunch of dumb cunts, let's be honest. Since Google bought YT out and remodelled the team, they have no fucking braincell's amongst them. No doubt YT are doing to eventually come for the rest of the Pain Quest videos. Stupid fucking snowflakes concentrating on the wrong issues. So dearest YouTube cuck team you better come hard and fast because once you take the other 17 videos down, I will leave your stupid fucking website. 
Fuck YouTube!

Yours fuckingly,
1stmetalgod.

Monday, 10 May 2021

Top 10 Mortal Kombat Games

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!

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Welcome back to my blog and here and today's list is my top 10 fave MK games! 
Let's get a flawless victory here today!

10: Mortal Kombat 
The original Mortal Kombat's significance can't be ignored. The game revolutionized the fighting genre with characters that were digitized versions of real-life actors, and its shocking, gory Fatality moves were so controversial that they essentially birthed the ESRB game-ratings system.

9: MK 2
This expanded upon everything great with MK 1 and added in some new now iconic characters.

8: Shaolin Monks
Shaolin Monks is the third, and most recent, spin-off game of the series, and it’s no doubt the best. The plot is the most interesting of any of the action-adventure games. The beat ’em up aspect of the gameplay definitely adds some much-needed excitement to spin-offs that otherwise haven’t worked very well in this franchise.

7: Deadly Alliance
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance righted the ship after the disappointing Mortal Kombat 4, delivering a much tighter 3D combat system that introduced the ability to switch fighting styles midbattle. In what would become a tradition for the franchise, Deadly Alliance came loaded with content, including a single-player Konquest mode and a treasure trove of unlockable secrets known as the Krypt. Deadly Alliance felt both fresh and like a return to form when it released in 2002, and it laid the groundwork for future 3D iterations to come.

6: Deception
Mortal Kombat: Deception built on everything that was great about Deadly Alliance, beefing up the roster while expanding on the single-player mode and introducing online play to the series. Minigames such as Puzzle Kombat and Chess Kombat delivered some hilariously fun diversions from the fighting.

5:  MK 3
Mortal Kombat 3 was a major leap forward for the franchise, introducing the series'’ now-signature Dial-a-Combo system, upping the pace with a Run button and adding in the ability to uppercut your opponent through a ceiling and perform ridiculous Animalities. The roster expanded to include eventual favorites like Sektor, Cyrax and Kabal, though the exclusion of staples such as Scorpion and Kitana puzzled gamers. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 cemented its place as one of the finest in the series. In addition to bringing back the aforementioned key characters and adding some new stages, UMK3 introduced 2-on-2 and Tournament modes while adding new moves for much of the existing cast. This resulted in the most jampacked and fun Mortal Kombat yet, one that sent this classic trilogy off in style.

4: MK11
This game explored the furthest reaches of the Mortal Kombat lore, introduced another suite of memorable characters, and embraced the Mortal Kombat community in unprecedented ways. Whether you’re talking the nods to the series’ past or the massive Aftermath expansion that added an entire second story mode (featuring actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprising his role as Shang Tsung from the beloved 1995 film), Mortal Kombat 11 delivers full throttle on every front.

3: MK X
After MK9 returned the series to its roots, Mortal Kombat X began pushing the series forward in exciting ways. The awesome X-ray attacks returned in spades, with more gruesome how-did-they-get-up-from-that moves than in MK9, but the star of the show is the suite of new characters. Whether you’re talking the ice cold mercenary Erron Black, the new generation of kombatants in Cassie Cage and Jacqui Briggs, or the wildly unsettling D’Vorah, Mortal Kombat X delivered some of the most memorable characters since the original trilogy. Not only that, but the story mode weaves them together in compelling ways as they once again battle for the fate of the realms so this one really stands out for me.

2: Armageddon
What was supposed to be the ultimate culmination of the first decade and a half of the Mortal Kombat franchise gave players a lot to look forward to. Not only was every single Mortal Kombat character (at that time) included in Armageddon, but you could even create your own fighters to join the roster. We can't forget the story, the arcade endings and Kart Kombat!

1: MK 2011
NetherRealm Studios took the Mortal Kombat franchise back to basics in more ways than one. Not only did Mortal Kombat 9 return the series to its 2D fighting roots, but it also brought players back from the brink of Armageddon with a storyline that travelled in time to the beginning of the story, retelling a modified version of the events of the first three games. Aside from bringing together a collection of the series’ most iconic characters, Mortal Kombat 9 also introduced the beloved X-ray moves, where you could see the havoc being wreaked on the recipient’s innards. Perhaps MK9’s biggest legacy over the decade since its launch is its emphasis on narrative storytelling, which established the franchise as the best-in-class storyteller in the fighting game genre.

Do you agree with my list? Who is in your top 10?
What list would you like to see next? Let me know!
Thanks for reading, stay shiny!
FINISH HIM!

Tuesday, 23 April 2019

WATCH CLEMENTINE'S JOURNEY IN FULL ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Follow Lee as he takes care of Clem. A young girl lost in the apocalyptic world having forced to become grown up early what lessons does she learn and what choices will be made as she grows up along with us. 

FULL JOURNEY IS ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL FREE TO WATCH ANYTIME ANYWHERE!


400 DAYS DLC is also in this playlist


 




Walking Dead: Final Season (LIVESTREAMED): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWX6ZQ9WByuTbPFXJtAJQlPyG2AET4t4S

Enjoy!

Sunday, 23 September 2018

Brothers Grim (original song lyrics/story)

*2 Guys hangs upside down,tied up,beaten,bloodied,bruised*

*In a dark cell with barely enough light in the room*

Ever wanted to take a walk in my shoes,
To see my scar's and how easy i bruise,
Wanna know how i feel about you,
Take one step closer and kneel,
For this aint no joke,
You will experience my life,
But are you ready to drop the knife,

*A Guy wakes up to see a shadow of a man holding a shining knife*

Take a good hard look around you,
What do you see before you,
A man, A woman, a soldier,a politician?,
Am i good or evil,
Are your views primeval,
Do you want to change the way things are,
Do you want things to be the way they used to be,

Well tough luck,
The past don't want you back to fuck,
You angered it so much,
The things you did,the things you said,
All gone washed away,
They're all dead,

Because of you!
Because of me!
Because of us!

We three,are the last hope,
You turn on us,
You think you are so dope,
When you're just a bag of puss,
No apologies needed,
You can't come back from this,

You were my brother,
You were my family,
We were a team,
It's all just a fucking dream,

The past is a memory,
To which i hope you look back on in shame,
Remember the day i used to love hearing your name,
Remember this day today,
The day i speak your name one final time,
My love for you is dead and gone,

*Man puts knife down and steps out of the shadows*

That's right,
We're the last of the line,
Our families have diminished,
What fine team are we?,

I lost you when you fell down that mine,
She left you when you revealed your con,
I left you on accident,
You left me go on purpose,
You betrayed me,
You meant so much to me,
I hate you, so come on
Just kill me already,

Because of you!
Because of me!
Because of us!

You are making quite a big fuss,
You make the others seem like i am the wrong one,
You turned your back on me so long ago,
You left me alone with no one to help me when i fall,
Abandoned me,
Left me for dead,
I used to love you the same as our dad,
I can't believe what i am hearing right now,
Thinking i conned my love,my wife,
When your the one who stabbed her with that knife,
You talk a big game,
But your nothing without your name,
Your title is gone,
Give up the gimmick,
Rot in here,
Where hell is what you make of it,

Because of me?,
You think i did this to you!? ,
You did it to yourself,

Because of You?,
You can't look me in the eyes and tell me the truth,

Because of us!
The truth is forever blurred,
I choose to bury it today,
With dismay,
I won't be the one to do it,
I leave it up to you,
And you alone,

*Guy cuts down the other guy knocked out hanging upside down and leaves the one he is talking to hanging*

Why?!,
Tell me why,
Why this?,
Why here?,
Why now?,
I know you still care for me deep down,
I care for you aswell,
But your mind is twisted,
Warped in someone else's reality,

Wrong,
I know the truth i seek is right,
The path i take is justice,
I am leaving you here to serve your time,
To hopefully die,
Why say you care when you do not,

But i,

No shut up,
And stay here to rot!

*Door slams*

Written by Scott Jones 16/3/18 3:48am
Wrote this off a Jekyll and Hyde type vibe wanted to make a song into a story or the latter and i came up with this. Weird i know. 

Friday, 18 May 2018

MACHINE Fucking, Fucking, Fucking HEAD!

Fuck! What a gig three times I have seen these incredible metal giants and that's why there's three F's between Machine and Head because it was fucking....fucking.....fucking......HOSTILE!
Start of the night and a low light photo. 
So let's start the day, I get up, I can't come down, the room is spinning round and round and that's Abracadabra but seriously Mr Blue Sky was out in force and it was fucking scorchio. I went on the train and I was all by myself first gig I went alone, well I was not alone I met friend I don't see much of the beast that is Lloyd Newman. We chilled out caught up queued in line outside The Great Hall in Cardiff and waited for the Imperium to let loose.

Met this guy down there who had his appendix out recently called Sam became friends with him, he's a tidy guy so shoutout to him! Met some random people too and drunks that were fist bumping me and Lloyd and they were hugging us and even offering us stuff and we declined everything besides the fist bumps of course because, i'm a reasonable party square who don't need no booze or other things to party. I had the one beer it was rank not had that "Best Larger In The World" in god know how long but i pretty much sweated it out end of the night haha I was a big pile of sweat as ever from a MH gig.
End of night stage photo. 
From the moment MH came on and the pit was about to start for Imperium Lloyd looked at me yelled "PITTTTTTT" and that was the last time i ever saw Lloyd, it was a midsummer's day and I, Morgan Freeman narrated such a tale of the boy who went missing inside the circle pit. Haha but don't worry Lloyd was fine got home safe and was only left bruised from the pit but he will recover!

I was pretty much front row by barricade all night UP UNTIL the last two songs because I felt like i was gonna pass out, I could not breath and i was so dehydrated. I was also pissed off from being squashed, punched and having bodies land on my head that i needed a drink or i for sure was gonna pass out so i spent an extortion amount of money on a bottle of water and i downed it in 0.2.6.1.555.666 seconds of having it, which in layman's terms is a fraction of a nanosecond i believe but i'm making that shit up i don't know how fast i downed it but it was fast. 
There i lay on the floor for old and first time ever at a gig i spewed on the floor, i needed a break, so i was on my knees until the middle of Halo where i then stood back up and sang along and worked my way back to the center before the song ended sadly did not get back to my spot or get a pic or drum stick from the guys but hey 2 years ago i met them i don't give a fuck haha I would have loved to have won the MVR shirt but ah well. I left the building 11am and awaited a pick up from my dad, the legend that he is. Got back to Aberdare and went for a mcdonalds because MAN was i hungry and thirsty!
Only pic I took of the band while they were playing. 
It was the roughest gig i have been to to be honest wont lie. The basic highlights are: Could not breathe but I survived up until last two songs and then I was like I can't do this anymore and went to the bar to get drink and just spewed on the floor while I was resting. I have not been that bad ever at a gig. So many fucking people landed on my head. This couple was chatting with me and Lloyd for ages and soon as machine head came on i gave them a boost up and chucked em over barricade haha. Met this guy who had his appendix out he added me on fb Sam and he's tidy. Accidentally punched this guy aswell haha Robb was like hey and do your fists and I did it and boom I was like oh fuck I slowed it down then. Killer set from MH as ever they do not disappoint!

SETLIST CONTAINED:

Imperium
Volatile
Now We Die
Beautiful Mourning
The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
Kaleidoscope
Clenching the Fists of Dissent
Guitar Solo (Phill Demmel)
Darkness Within
Catharsis
From This Day
Ten Ton Hammer
Is There Anybody Out There?
Locust
Beyond the Pale
Drum Solo (Dave McClain)
Bulldozer
Killers & Kings
Davidian
Behind a Mask
None but My Own
Triple Beam
Aesthetics of Hate
Encore:
Game Over
Old
Halo

So yeah, thanks for stopping by and reading this junk!
Catch ya later headcases!
This photo MH posted on facebook, hopefully its ok for me to use this just to share a photo of all the headcases in cardiff. 

Monday, 24 April 2017

Top 10 Video Game Tracks

1UP yourself because you have a new life from a new list that i have just made for you all. 

The list of my top 10 favourite video game tracks!

This list is compiled from original sound track songs and others. To hear the songs do click on the titles of said song as they will bring you to the song page on youtube for your viewing/listening pleasure. 

Added bonus i will either also include a fact about the song or game it is in. 

RULES: 1 SONG PER GAME FRANCHISE! No this and this from gta vice city and san andreas. You know? This will make it more challenging.  

It's the music that we choose, that kicks off this list. Weird to kick this off with a remixed song and a old football game but it was this song that made this game so memorable for me and i had such fun times tackling everyone and anyone even the freakin goalie haha. I was a liverpool football fan for many a years and this one was my fave and the last footie i played until Fifa 13 madly enough. This was probably the first game i played with another player that's a fun fact for you all because i have not been able to pick up any fun facts from this game online as of writing so my own facts will have to do. 

Might have been the first song i ever played on a guitar hero game. My good friend Lewis Griffiths first introduced me to this band and game. Hell of a game. Never played anything like it before and i remember begging my parents for the game for ages until i finally had it for my birthday haha. According to Activision, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is the best-selling video game of 2007, both in terms of units sold and revenue earned, and that it is the first single retail video game to exceed one billion dollars in sales. Recognising the game's popularity, Guinness World Records created a category for the Highest Score for a Single Song on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock in its Gamer's Edition, using the song "Through the Fire and Flames", noted as the most difficult song in the game. The record has been traded back and forth between Chris Chike, who also won the 2008 Play N Trade National Guitar Hero III Tournament, and Danny Johnson, the present holder of the record.

Do you guys feel like a monster? You will upon hearing this classic! For the first time in the series, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 implements the Havok game engine. The software was used in the game to improve collision detection. It is also the last game to feature ECW in its title. The soundtrack is more memorable than the game for me but the game at the time was pretty neat but looking back on it and replaying it, it was ok. The menu being in a ring able to play about was really cool to figure out all controls to before getting it on in the ring. The soundtrack featured another Skillet song which was Hero another fave of mine. The game introduced me to one of my fave all time bands Skillet of course. What else was on the soundtrack? Oh well CLICK HERE to hear it! Man the road to wrestlemania original stories produced for the game were amazing too!

Such a catchy up beat song. Always makes me happy and manages to get me to sing along with my hand displaying a peace sign and with my tongue sticking out i rock my sack out....no not that sack. Dirty minded fools of a took! The series follows the adventures of Sackboy and has a large emphasis on gameplay rather than being story-driven. All of the games in the series put a strong emphasis on user-generated content and are based on the series' tagline "Play, Create, Share". The tagline represents the three core elements of the series; Playing alone or with others online or on the same console, creating new content using the in-game creation tools and sharing creations and discoveries online with other players. Most of the games in the series have been well received by critics with the LittleBigPlanet on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable gaining Metacritic scores of 95/100 and 87/100 respectively. LittleBigPlanet 2 garnered nearly as much acclaim as the first game with an average score of 91/100. LittleBigPlanet PS Vita also received very positive reviews and was the highest-ranked PS Vita game at the time of its release with an average score of 88/100. However, the release of LittleBigPlanet 3, the first game not by Media Molecule, did not receive critical acclaim, garnering a mostly positive average of 79/100.[28] Critically, LittleBigPlanet Karting is the worst-performing major game in the series so far but still gained a "mixed or average" Metacritic score of 74/100. However, the mobile game Run Sackboy! Run! performed worse, with a Metacritic score of 65/100.

HO AH HUH! Spanish Steve, Spanish Steve, Si is here. Or something or other that goes the lyrics. The song is sung by 30 people 3 times, so that 90 voices are heard on the final track. The voice of Paarthanax also voices Mario weird as hell fact for you. On February 18th 2011, Bethesda opened a challenge to deliver a baby on Skyrim's release date, November 11th 2011, and name the child "Dovahkiin". The winners, Megan and Eric Kellermeyer, named their newborn son Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer when he was delivered on that date. In return they were given a Steam key that granted them access to every Bethesda Softworks game made, including all future releases. Skyrim received critical acclaim upon release. The removal of the character class system, present in previous The Elder Scrolls entries, was well received. Billy Shibley of Machinima's Inside Gaming and Charles Onyett of IGN praised its removal because it allowed players to experiment with different skills without having to make decisions about a class early in the game. The art style of the game world drew acclaim from many reviewers, who welcomed the departure from Oblivion's Cyrodiil. Jason Schreier of Wired described the land of Skyrim as a "Viking-inspired treasure trove of flavor and charm", noting its contrast to Cyrodiil, which he considered generic by comparison. Reviewers welcomed the ability to dual-wield weapons and magic. Within two days of the game's launch, 3.4 million physical copies were sold. Of those sales, 59% were for the Xbox 360, 27% for the PS3, and 14% for the PC. I only played skyrim for just a week and i did not end up completing the main story but i did enjoy the game and this theme is a modern classic everyone knows. 

Oh oh oh woah oh oh woah oh......hell of a number 5 don't you think Spartans? The song features a wide range of musical styles, including chanting, string orchestra, and percussion. For Halo 2, the song was remixed into the MJOLNIR Mix. The basics of the song remained the same, but it featured electric guitar overlays by guitarist Steve Vai. On its release Halo broke sales records; by April 8, 2002, a little under five months after its release, one million units had been sold: this pace was faster than that of any previous sixth-generation console game. The game received numerous Game of the Year awards, including those of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Edge, and IGN.The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded Halo "Best Console Game," and Rolling Stone presented it with their "Best Original Soundtrack" award. According to Xbox.com, the game received a total of 48 awards. Halo had never been planned as a trilogy, but with the critical and commercial success of Combat Evolved, a sequel was expected. First halo game i played was Halo 3 and my my my what a delightahh. First-day sales of Halo 3 reached $170 million in the U.S., setting a record for highest gross of an entertainment product within 24 hours of its release.

SHAMOAN AH! HE HE! If it was not for this game i would not have gotten into so many classic songs and bands and artist's. First time i heard a Jacko song was from this game. Tommy Vercetti is heavily based on Tony Montana from the film Scarface. They both end up in exile, both rise to power in Miami using great amounts of violence, both build an empire from a large estate and mansion, both have short tempers and are prone to violence, both work as contract killers, and both killed their collaborators and took their ex-bosses' empires, and both engage in a battle with large groups of assassins at the end of their stories. However, Tommy survives his final gunfight with his enemies, while Tony is killed. Even the mansions in the games are similar.

OHHH YEAAAH BOIII THIS IS MAH JAM! Budokai 3 was given much higher reviews than its predecessors Budokai and Budokai 2 according to Metacritic. This was often due to how critics felt that the game did more to improve its gameplay rather than just its graphics and presentation. Its fighting and graphics have also been praised, with IGN stating that Budokai 3 was "One of the few instances of cel-shading done right", and that it "also offers a healthy amount of special effects and pyrotechnics and they all look great." The game's story mode yet again plays through the events of the Dragon Ball Z timeline, and the game includes several characters and events from the Dragon Ball Z movies (like Cooler, Broly and Bardock), Dragon Ball GT (like Super Saiyan 4 and Omega Shenron), and the original Dragon Ball series itself (Kid Goku). Other features the game includes are a versus mode, an items shop, a tournament, and a battle ranking stage where the player has to challenge the AI in a hundred fighter challenge. Moving a spot above after beating who ever is next in the ranking. The fighting mechanics have also been enhanced from the preceding 2 games making the game closer to its anime counterpart in terms of combat (which was well received by fans of the series and gamers alike). Budokai 3 has a roster of 42 playable characters. I had this game day 1 of release and skipped school to play it all day and that's what i did and i played this religiously for days,weeks,months, years frankly. I had also suffered a gaming injury playing this game i had blistered my whole hands due to wiggling the analogue sticks so much. 

WOAH A BATTLE HAS JUST OPENED UP IN HERE! MAKE SOME ROOM! The first time hearing this music i was like "wah?! what is happening? you doing me a frighten m8! Oh pokemon wants a fight me eh? Bring it!" haha. This game is at the center of countless Creepypasta stories is the already surprisingly dark Lavender Town. One myth, in particular, that frightened the internet as a whole is the tale behind numerous reported child suicides taking place in 1996, aka the same year that Pokémon Red and Green (as it was initially titled in its home country) were released in Japan. There are several different variations of this story floating around, but generally, it involves the musical theme of Lavender Town containing harmful frequencies that specifically target adolescents, and, according to the legend, drove a number of children to take their own lives. While the story is, of course, fictitious, it is certainly creepy. As alluded to earlier, Pokémon is an inspiration for countless stories like this, all documented and just a few clicks away. Lavender Town is a perfect inspiration for many of these stories, considering the fact that it is an already dark setting within an otherwise lighthearted children’s game.

So many classic songs i could have picked from this era of games but Mario just stuck to mind. Super mario bros theme is just an instant classic. This theme took the longest of the six tracks of Super Mario Bros. to compose, according to its composer Koji Kondo. He stated that he would write one piece, and the team would put it in the game. If it did not accentuate the action, did not time up with Mario running and jumping, or did not harmonise with the sound effects well enough, he would scrap it. The first theme he made for Super Mario Bros. was based on an early prototype of the game, which simply showed Mario running around a big empty area. Kondo described this early theme as a bit lazier, slower tempo, and more laid back. As the game underwent changes, he realised that his theme no longer fit, so he increased the pace and changed it around to fit better. The first handheld game i ever played was mario it was so simple so fun and also real annoying at times but this song is so cheery and hyper i love it, such a classic as i said.

Ok that will be all for today, i thank you for visiting my blog page as ever and for reading this list.

Comment your top 10 fave video game tracks!

For now that's it and i will catch you on the next level see ya!