#it’s also laggy which is probably an issue that will pass with time

[kitnita]

further bitching will not be going in the liveblog tag but i need to speak my truth ……. i fear victory+ is probably not going to grow on me gang 😭 i think the desktop ui is bad for watching anything longer than a player’s post practice media availability!! and i think it's also bad for watching something that you’d like to take up your window but not your full screen!! also having the video player naturally take up a third of the screen & be so severely off center is A Choice ………….. it’s like what if your professional sports broadcast wanted to be formatted like a youtube video but with an even smaller video player. and also the biggest (and most off center!!) pause & fast forward buttons imaginable anytime your cursor so much as twitches towards said video player.

[couchpotatoaniki]

One Year ❣︎ Seven: Never Ask Friends for Help

Chapter Summary: As San expected, he caught a cold after your little prance through the storm in Hallim Park the previous day. Luckily, you're fine, which gives you the wonderful opportunity to look after him and the even more wonderful opportunity to let your chaotic nature shine.

Pairing: Mafia!San x Fem!Reader Genre: Mafia AU, fluff, angst, eventual smut, lotta crack and stupid shit ngl Chapter warnings: swearing, (this chapter is pure fluff and crack) Word count: 3.2k+ A 365 Days parody

Previous: Chapter Six For the rest of the series, click here

Speech in bold means they’re talking in Korean

Speech in italics is whatever the reader wants their native langue to be that’s not Korean or English

Speech without either means they’re talking in English

Silence filled your room when you woke up the next morning. It was strange, since San had said he would be waking you up, and there you were, still lying in bed by the time noon rolled around.

It wasn’t as if you were waiting for him to come and get you, but you just wanted to take advantage of the time in such a warm blanket. Yeosang often joked about how you became a cold-blooded reptile whenever you felt sleepy, body temperature dropping and your tongue sharp like that of a snake.

Basically, it was his long-winded way of calling you a cranky, heat-stealing bitch.

Not that you minded at all, since Yeosang was a cranky bitch himself when sleepy.

But then half an hour passed, and there was still no sign of San. Throwing the blanket off your form, you slipped on a pair of slippers and got ready for the day, finding him becoming the very next thing on your agenda.

And the state you found him in was certainly laughable--to you anyway.

“Did you seriously get sick after a little storm?” you chuckled, eyes taking in San wrapped in the covers as if he was a baby, sniffling every few seconds.

“Oh, shut it,” he glared at you, speaking with a nasally voice.

You took a step into his room, one looking fairly similar to yours, with little pictures or much personalisation in general. Must not have stayed here often then, or had many memories he wanted to keep.

That thought... it made you feel a little sad.

Once you reached the edge of his bed, you sat down beside him, noticing just how sickly-looking he was. Skin paler, hair sticking to his forehead from the sweat, flush cheeks and nose, uneven breathing, soft whimpering.

Your smile faded slightly. “How long have you been like this?”

“Since last night,” he coughed, brushing away your hand as you reached out to check his temperature. “Don’t touch me, I don’t want you to catch whatever this is.”

Clicked your tongue at his response and did so anyway. “Holy shit, you’re burning up. More than you should be. Has anyone seen to you yet?” Instantly, you brushed the hair from his eyes, simultaneously wiping away the sweat. Was pretty gross, but you didn’t mind at all.

San relaxed under your gentle touch, finding it cool and soothing against his muddled senses. “N-No. I texted Hongjoong to tell everyone to leave me alone. Clearly didn’t do a good enough job if you’re here.”

Lightly hitting his chest over the blanket, you scoffed. “You’re happy I’m here, don’t lie.”

Grinning, he sighed. “Can’t hide anything from you, now can I, Hun?”

“Nope,” you huffed as you got up. “Now, I’m going to prepare something for you to eat since you probably haven’t had anything since yesterday.” On cue, his stomach grumbled painfully loudly, making the man visibly cringe as he was about to decline your offer so you would stay with him for a little bit longer. “Looks like Mister Tummy’s already answered for you.”

“Mister Tummy doesn’t know shit.”

“Mister Tummy knows more shit than you do. In fact, it processes all of your shit for you.”

“Gross.”

“I know. Mister Tummy’s gross. But full of wisdom.”

“You know what, just go. Leave me be for a bit.”

Evil chuckling reached his ears. “Now that you’ve said it, I’ll just be here to annoy you as much as I can. But before we do that, keep yourself bundled up and make sure you’re sweating buckets. It’s the most effective way to break a nasty fever like that.” You began wrapping him up in the thick blanket like he was a burrito.

With that, you left for the kitchen, calling Seonghwa’s number. As the ringing continued, you looked around, noticing how there were few guards and servants around the place. Not even Wooyoung, Jongho, or Hongjoong could be seen in your trek to make food.

“What do you want, troll?”

“You’ve got to stop calling me that. Whatever happened to ‘hello’? Too mainstream for you?”

“...Hello, troll. What do you want?”

Narrowing your eyes ahead of you, smirk pressing against your lips, you tried to look around for the chef. Not there either. “Much better. Now, can you give me a recipe for that soup with ‘magical healing properties’ you used to give me?”

“Bone broth?”

“Yeah, that one.”

“Why?”

“Because I’m on adventure to nurse a sociopathic cuddle-demon back to health, now are you going to give me the recipe or am I going to get Yunho to drag it out of you? Because I know very well that he will.”

Seonghwa’s sigh was loud enough to be audible through the phone.

“I’ll take that as a ‘yes’. Just text me the recipe, thank you, love you, byeeeeee.” Immediately ended the call, looking in all the cupboards, the pantry, the fridge, and the freezer. This place was stocked to the brim.

Shortly after, your phone began buzzing, Seonghwa requesting to video call you. Swiping the green button, you were met with a (slightly laggy) picture of Seonghwa’s chin, hearing him yell off screen. “--UNHO. MINGI. I SWEAR TO GOD, YOU BETTER PUT THAT DOWN BEFORE I SHOVE IT UP BOTH YOUR ASSES.”

You could make out the response, “Hehe, kinky.” Most likely Mingi from the very nature of the comment.

“What do you want, troll?” you echoed his words back to him, catching his attention--the other boys most likely long gone into the depth of the house.

“Well, well, well, how the tables have turned,” he smirked, moving the camera so you could see him better.

“It’s ‘how the turntables’.”

He looked at you with an unimpressed expression, not pleased with your Office reference, and carried on to ignore it. “So there is no way in hell I’m sending you the recipe through text, since people can easily hack that--”

“And by people, you mean--”

“Yeosang, yes, who else? Little rat bastard keeps trying to steal my recipes.”

“I’ll be sure to tell him you said that.”

“As if he hasn’t heard it already about a million times.”

You chuckled in response, knowing how true it was. “Fair enough. Now spill your secrets and bless me with the ability to cook.”

One word to describe the last hour of your life would be... Well, you couldn’t really think of a word. It was purely of Seonghwa screaming over the phone and you screaming back. And panicking. Both of you definitely panicked.

But all in all, the bone broth was made and tasted fairly decent--a worry you had after fucking up so many times in making a simple recipe.

With a pale and dreary look upon his face, Seonghwa looked at you through the phone, narrowing his eyes on you pouring some of the hot mixture in to a bowl. “You’re actually gonna feed him that? Sure you’re trying to nurse him, or was this a master plan to kill him after that ordeal? Because if it’s the latter, then there were much easier ways of doing so.”

“Shut up,” you grumbled, whispering prayers in your head that it would actually help San’s fever. “And goodbye.”

“Woah, woah, woah. Is that it? You’re gonna use me and then lea--”

You hand pulled away from the phone screen, after having pressed the red button. Chuckled to yourself with your comedic timing, completely forgetting the earful you’d get of the elder the next time you call him.

Gathering a tray, you placed the bowl of bone broth on top of it, as well as a packet of painkillers, a glass of water, and some turmeric tea; why San has it, you have no idea, since he seems to be a hot coffee-kind of person.

Would’ve added a flower, because you felt like being extra, but that would seem more like a romantic thing than a... well, whatever the hell you two were right now.

This situation wasn’t exactly common enough for it to be given a name.

Wafting away the thought, you grabbed the tray and walked quickly to the mobster’s bedroom. Didn’t need to worry about any spillage since you’ve had years of practice being quick and precise with movement.

Holding one hand beneath the tray (feeling a little heavy, but again, you’ve had practice), you used the other to open the door, finding San still swaddled in his blanket, sweating like a pig.

“Y/N...” he whimpered, an eye opening at the sound of you entering. Seeing him in such a vulnerable state was different to how he usually was--and you weren’t sure if you liked it.

“I’m right here, San,” you replied in a soft tone, brushing back his hair once more as soon as you placed the tray on the bedside-table beside you. “Brought you some food too. Can you sit up for me?”

Letting out soft whines, he tried to lift his body up, but was too weak and too caged in to get his back even a centimetre off the mattress. You saw the issue, and pulled the covers apart slightly so he could move a little more, both hands pulling gently at his shoulders so he could sit up properly.

Never had you seen someone this unwell from a simple fever. Sure, you’ve felt like shit before, but San’s condition was a little worrying. “Is there some private doctor I can call?”

“What,” he huffed, a smile etching onto his face as he looked into your eyes, “makes you think I have a private doctor?”

“Oh, I dunno, you’re a rich asshole?”

Chuckling, he let his head flop to the side, neck suddenly too weak to hold it up properly. “You’re beautiful, you know that? Annoying, but funny, but sarcastic, but beautiful.”

“Okay, do you wanna continue with that word vomit or are you gonna eat?” You cocked your brow, head tilting to match his posture. “Also, you’re not gonna flatter me by calling me beautiful. That shit doesn’t work on me anymore.”

It had slightly upset San knowing that you had said ‘anymore’--upset him knowing that there were others complimenting what his. But he couldn’t blame them. You really were beautiful in his eyes, even if he hadn’t thought so when he initially laid eyes on you.

“Don’t wanna eat.”

Sighing, you fixed yourself and picked up the bowl, mixing it as you blew to cool it down a little. “You’re not well, you gotta.”

He looked at you with big wide eyes and a small pout--and you couldn’t help but think it was a little cute. “Don’t wanna... unless you feed me?”

Okay, maybe it was a little less cute.

You exhaled, still stirring. “If I do, then you’ll have it all?” He put his hand over his heart, nodding with a sincere look on his face. “Fine then.” You lifted a spoon full of the bone broth to his lips, which he look into his mouth promptly--eyes glued to yours as he did so.

San hummed earnestly. “It’s...actually pretty good.”

Eye twitching, you lightly pushed him. “Why? Did you expect it to be shit?”

“I mean, I heard faint screaming and what I assume was swearing, which could have only come from you because I let everyone have a day off for today. So, yes, forgive my assumption that it would murder me,” he chuckled, opening his mouth once more, in which you carefully put more broth in.

“Be happy that I’m doing this much for you.”

“Because you feel guilty for getting me ill?” 

“No, it was your fault for not taking a hot shower when we came back, like I told you to--and your immune system for being so shit.”

“Okay, first of all, I can’t help it if my immune system wants to act out. I usually don’t get this ill.” You sent him a ludicrous look, continuing to feed him. “What? I really don’t!”

“Tell that to the rain.”

“I-- nevermind. But the second thing is that I offered to take a shower, but you said no!”

“That’s because you wanted to shower with me. No way in hell I was gonna let that happen!”

“You have the shower room for it!”

″Yeah, and I've already passed on my grievances to you yesterday about that hell-room!”

“Well, at least with me with you, you don’t have to worry about--what did you call it? Oh yeah--’Casper the fuckin’ Perverted Ghost’.”

“I’d take a ghost over you any day.”

“You won’t be saying that in a year.”

“Bold of you to assume that I won’t be choosing Casper over you. After all, I’ll be spending time with him as well.”

San scoffed, slightly amused but annoyed at the same time. “Are you actually trying to get me jealous of something that doesn’t exist?”

“Who said Casper doesn’t exist?”

“‘Cause ghosts don’t exist.”

“Tell that to Casper. You’ll find him in my shower room.”

Amidst the conversation, neither of you had noticed how the bowl and cup was now empty, their contents now residing in San’s stomach. But when you did, you got up--ready to walk to the kitchen and put everything away--until his very warm hands wrapped around your elbow gently.

“Please don’t go. You can put all that stuff away later. Just... stay with me.”

Sighing, you decided to listen to him for once an put the tray down before tightening the covers around him again--making him whine. “Noooooo, I wanna hold you.”

“What happened to not wanting me to get sick?”

“I’m ill, stop taking my muddled brain so seriously.”

Your brow cocked up, amused while you looked over his flushed face. “So you’d be willing get me sick too?”

Another pout formed on his face. “Of course not,” he mumbled. “You know what, you’re right. You can go.”

He avoided looking at you, instead fixing his saddened gaze at the window. Your natural scepticism told you that he was just faking it, only putting on an act to get your attention and affection. Yet, for the first time in a while, doubt began to seep in.

Maybe... maybe you could give in. Just this once.

Sighing, you slipped off your slippers and lay down beside him, an arm and leg wrapping around his body to bring him closer to you. A stronger tint of red covered his face as he looked at you, flabbergasted, as he tried to wriggle out of your touch. “What are you doing, you’ll get sick--”

“My immune system is much stronger than yours, I’ll live. Besides, you look cosy,” you muttered, nestling your face into the soft blanket. Even his blanket smelled like a garden in the rain, despite the amount of sweat that’s probably seeped into it.

Truly, he did, and you couldn’t deny that you wanted to hug the human burrito.

San had, instead, found you cute, cheek squished against the fabric surrounding him. Let his mind wonder to the image of you pressed against him--without the covers coming between you two.

Again.

Would you look this peaceful, sleeping on his chest, on a regular day--he thought.

“Are you just going to stare at me or are you gonna get some rest?” San could feel your voice vibrating through the covers despite the thickness of it.

“Hard not to stare at you, ya know?” he relaxed himself, despite feeling like he was baking beneath the blanket, and let his head rest on the pillow, cheek pressed against your forehead.

“Goddamn, you’re hot. Did you take any medicine while I was cooking?”

“Oh, Hun, there’s no cure for sexiness,” he coughed, a smirk pulling at his lips from the joke he made.

Another sigh was pulled from your throat as you got up to look for any painkillers he could take. Sane began to whine once more, rolling over since he could barely had enough energy to move with his arms when he was this tired--a full belly of warm broth and tea not helping what so ever.

“No--wait. Come back...”

“You need painkillers.”

With a straight face, he stared deep into your eyes, slightly glossy and sparkling under the dim sunlight coming into the room. “But you’re my painkiller.”

“Yeah, I’m going to get you some meds,” you deadpanned, scooping up the tray to leave the grown-ass mafia boss whining and rolling around, throwing a tantrum.

After some hard thinking and remembering that Wooyoung had given you his number, you called him up as you stood in the doorway, looking at San’s calm state of sleeping.

“My dear sister,” you heard a voice finally say over the phone, “what requires my assistance?”

“...Wooyoung?”

“Yes, dear sister?”

“What in the world has possessed you call me your ‘dear sister’?”

“Because you’re gonna be my friend’s wife some day, so I need to get used to seeing you as my sister-from-another-mister.”

Rubbing the bridge of your nose, you decided to not comment on his outlandish claims. “San’s not feeling well.”

“Is that why he sent us all away?” he laughed, somehow finding this situation amusing--since this is what his best friend tends to do; finds his weakened state as vulnerability, and if there was one thing San hated, it was feeling vulnerable.

But if he truly hated that, then why pursue this why you--when he know that it would force him to bring his guard down?

“I think so. No one was here when I came out of my room. Not the cooks or the maids or even the guards,” you said, taking another gander as if there might be someone roaming the halls to disprove your statement.

There wasn’t.

“Okay then. You want me to give you our private doctor’s number?”

Chuckling to yourself because you knew you were right (immediately confusing Wooyoung), you hummed, “yeah, that would be great.”

“O-Okay. Lemme text it to you. But do you need anything else? I know from experience San can get a little clingy when he’s not in his right mind,” he said, a boisterous giggle passing his lips.

“Nah, it’s fine.” You let your gaze brush over your captor’s figure. “Just send me the number and I’ll take it from there.”

“Okie dokie then, dear sister. I’ll leave you to deal with that enigma.”

“Alright, Wooyoung. See you tomorrow?”

“Call me ‘dear brother’, then maybe I’ll hang u--”

You shoved your phone into your back pocket after ending the call, thinking that it would take him a few minutes. Proving you wrong, the phone buzzes to life within the next ten seconds, Wooyoung sending you a couple of messages.

Wooyoung: Well that was a rude Wooyoung: No matter, I still love ya, dear sister Wooyoung: Probs should clarify that it’s platonic in case San sees it and gets all jelly Wooyoung: Anyway, here’s the number Wooyoung: XXXXXXXXXX

Y/N: Thanks, bro

Wooyoung: 🥺🥺 You called me ‘bro’

Smiling a little, you called the number--which had indeed taken you to a doctor’s clinic. After hearing of his exact temperature and other symptoms, the woman over the phone had concluded that it was as you first suspected--the common cold.

She told you to keep giving him painkillers and he should be fine within the week. Ending the call with a polite ‘thank you’ and ‘goodbye’, you left to get San more broth and medication, and hopefully you’d lay down with him again.

Which is exactly what you did for the rest of the day, opting to stay with him for the night too in order to make sure he really was okay. Thankfully, the worst of his fever had passed by the time morning came around and he was feeling much better.

You, however, were exhausted after looking after him, deep in your slumber as you shifted closer to San, who had broken free of his blanket prison and wrapped it around the two of you. The sunlight peeking through the window paled in comparison to the faint smile of glee San had adorned when he saw you.

Cheeked pressed up against his shoulder, and arm and a leg draped over his body like a koala clinging to a tree.

Just like he had thought the day before.

☕︎ Tag list: @little-precious-baby​​​​ , @sparklychangbin​​​​ , @shawkneecaps​ If you wanna be tagged, feel free to ask!

[chirp-on-loop]

This a very long post so you have been warned (1/2)

I know Mcc has passed an all and you probably are all sick of seeing talk about it but I want to so I’m going to lol, consider this a part two to my previous post about Tommy in mcc. I think a major issue that happened this mcc and seems to have happened in some other mccs from this season has been Tommy having to play too many roles within the team. Tommy is considered a really good player in mcc, when looking at ranking overall he is 12th (apparently) and is in multiple top tens overall and if it has to do with pvp will be in top 5. Tommy also is a natural leader who is confident in aspects he knows he is good at. Tommy also has a great strength of being a golden retriever boy who is all about optimism and staying positive and as he’s states before considers having fun and staying positive the most important thing in mccs. Tommy has the makings to be an s teir player easily and as we’ve seen before if given the right members in a team can pop off. For example in sbi mcc (btw can i just say hurts to watch) Tommy does fucking amazing and in mcc 14 had very supportive team members leading him to be in the top ten and if it weren’t for ace race I think we all agree RR could have been in dodgebolt. Tommy is willing to put in the time and effort and takes his time to learn from anything and everything and wants to actively be better. Tommy is a great leader and a great cheerleader for his team but the issue is he has had to wear all the hats. Wilbur was very down for a majority of this mcc and Tommy (who said his goal was to make Wilbur laugh as much as possible) recognized this and went into Tommyinnit mode instead of just being Tom. Making bits left and right, asking Phil to help, using his optimism, using little brother bit, you name it he did it. At the same time he was having to take over a lot even though he wanted Phil to lead. Tommy understandably takes over for pvp games but everything else planned to listen but when it was Phil’s time got nothing. Tommy had to practically babysit during survival games because of Wilbur and Phil constantly leaving and not communicating and left with a laggy Ranboo. Parkour tag he had Wilbur going off and getting frustrated with following him. Btw can I just say where was Tommy supposed to go??? Like Tommy starts on the right corner and most times the hunter went for him so he couldn’t go forward or down he would have to go left also why was Wilbur standing still if he saw the hunter going for Tommy?? Anyway, he was constantly having to either try to lighten the mood or lead and sometimes both. Tommy is great but Tommy also had to take on way too much which we know affects him. That’s clear by every time his team does bad will completely blame himself. I understand Tommy is a good player so usually in a team he is the highest in pecking order but the issue is the team mates he gets don’t take it as seriously. Yes it could be because dynamics or who they put down but Tommy usually gets put with dsmp members. Which inherently doesn’t seem like an issue because they must have better communication right? Wrong. I believe (IMO) I think dsmp members tend to not listen to Tommy because they are used to content Tommyinnit when streaming, therefore ignoring him till it gets to pvp plays. Dsmp members also aren’t really that high ranking. The only dsmp members considered really good are Dream, Sapnap, Punz, Techno (which as we know will no longer participate in mcc till further notice) MichaelMcchill, Phil, and Tommy. Tubbo is also good but as I’ve seen isn’t placed with these people as much in regards of skill). A major issue that is happening with Tommy’s teams is communication, Tommy is someone who can spout plays and ideas and facts but with the groups he is with its all pretty much useless. As we saw Wilbur didn’t understand the doc at all and I don’t think the other members even looked at it. Tommy has the brain of an S teir player or a very high A teir but due to his own personal ranking isn’t getting the members he needs to do really good.

[hyperbeamapp]

Why Are Virtual Browsers Perfect for Watch Parties?

TL;DR

Most people prefer to use virtual browsers to watch movies and TV shows with friends online because they require the least hassle to set up and use, they let anyone take control if the host wants, and they let you visit any website you want.

If you’re looking to try out virtual browsing for your next watch party, then we recommend giving Tutturu’s free virtual browser a try!

There’s... another way?

Watching movies and TV shows together with friends online is something more and more people have been looking to do as social distancing restrictions continue and work becomes more remote than ever before. 

So how do you host the best watch parties possible with all the options available today? Let’s take a look at the most popular options for hosting watch parties and see why most people prefer to use virtual browsers to watch stuff together online.

Video Sync Applications

Who’s it for: Friends that just want to watch a few short videos together on a popular site.

First up on the list are video sync websites and extensions. These applications require everyone to open up the video-to-be-watched in their own browsers, and it then synchronizes the video players by overriding everyone’s video controls. You can think of it as an automated alternative to counting down from three and then clicking play.

Video sync applications can be great for quickly sharing a short video with a friend, or when all you plan to do is watch a public video on a popular site like YouTube. They’re also relatively simple to build, so you can typically expect to use them for free. However, video sync applications do have a few downfalls as well:

They require everyone to have access to the content being streamed.

They typically only sync content on a few specific websites.

Differing internet connections and personal computing can lead to video players pausing sporadically to re-synchronize everyone. Depending on the platform, you might fall out of sync without even knowing.

All in all, if you’re looking for a quick way to share short videos on popular sites, then video sync applications may be the way to go. However, If you’re looking to do more, then read on to learn about the other exciting options that are available.

Screen Sharing

Who’s It For: Hosts who aren’t concerned about privacy, and have a very reliable internet connection.

Ah, good ol’ screen share. Screen share requires the host to access the video on their own computer and then upload a stream to everyone else in the party. While screen share is used in a variety of applications nowadays, some people figured out they could also use it to host watch parties!

Screen sharing can be a great option for watch parties when you want to stream videos that are stored locally on your computer, or when the host has a very good internet connection and a fast computer. However, as many people have probably experienced at some point—screen sharing does have its fair share of issues:

Host-dependent - Screen sharing is never fun when the host has a poor internet connection—nobody likes a blurry and laggy stream. Since the entire watch party relies on them to stream the video, this can lead to a variety of issues as well as stress for the host!

No multi-control - Sometimes your friend wants to take control of the screen to show you something, or maybe you need to run to the restroom. Most screen share applications lack multi-control support which means no restroom breaks!

Little privacy - Ever leave an embarrassing tab open by mistake? Or maybe you forgot to turn off desktop notifications? Screen share streams everything from your monitor to everyone else in the party, so say bye bye to privacy during your watch party.

Overall, screen sharing apps can certainly get the job done—but a lot of the experience depends on the host and the quality of their internet connection and computer. For those that want the best experience possible, however, read on to learn about the next big thing when it comes to watch parties—Virtual Browsers.

Virtual Browsers

Who’s It For: Anyone that wants the most dependable, interactive, and hassle-free watch party experience available today.

Lo and behold—the holy grail of watch party technology. Virtual browsers have become all the rage when it comes to hosting watch parties as they’re easy to use, they offer very precise video synchronization, and they let you pass around control of the browser. 

Virtual browsers are essentially internet browsers that run on powerful remote servers that all members of the party can connect to. The server then uses its resources to stream the video in unison to every member of the party. The party host accidentally disconnects? No problem. Virtual browsers keep working, making them the most dependable watch party solution available today. 

Because virtual browsers are...well...browsers, they’re capable of syncing any website. Want to watch TV shows? Check. Movies? Check. The big game? Check. Anything you can think of, virtual browsers have you covered.

Finally, you might be thinking that given all of the benefits of virtual browsers that they’re probably difficult to set up and use—but that isn’t the case! On the contrary, virtual browsers provide one of the easiest ways to host watch parties today. 

So what’s the catch? While virtual browsers can provide a great watch party experience, the need for remote servers means that they can be expensive for the website owner to run. However, some virtual browsing services such as Tutturu provide free virtual browsers, along with a premium subscription if users want access to extra features. If you want to know what you’re missing out on, we highly recommend giving Tutturu’s free tier a try.

Conclusion

Nowadays, watching movies and TV shows with friends online can be a super fun way to just kick back and chill, or even spend some quality time with loved ones while apart. To get the most out of your experience though, it’s important to know what watch party tech exists, and what type is best for you. While we may be a bit biased at Tutturu, it’s really a no-brainer to us and our hundreds of thousands of users—virtual browsing is the way to go.

[hopevalley]

5.8 Weather the Storm (Thoughts, Part III)

I was going to keep this to two parts, but after I put so many images in a post it starts getting laggy, and frankly...I’m not willing to lose a post to Tumblr’s lag-and-crash system. Not when it takes me as long as it does to type these up!

Navigation:

Harper and Emily (Part I)

Carson, Rhonda, Faith, and the Brain Surgery (Part I)

The Bank Issue + Greta, Elizabeth, and Duncan (Part II)

Bill & AJ and Our Friend the Rattlesnake (PART III)

Welcome to Cheese City. Is it any more cheesy than Greta getting a talking-to by Elizabeth and Abigail? Or Carson miraculously pulling off a successful brain surgery in rustic, quaint little Hope Valley? Well, maybe not. But it’s still cheesy. Let’s get to the last part.

4.) Bill & AJ and Our Friend the Rattlesnake

Bill and AJ’s scenes actually start with Abigail, who comes to the jail. Not to see Bill, but AJ.

Not gonna lie, that was pretty funny. 

Abigail is there to thank AJ one last time for helping out the town and giving them an idea of what to expect from Baxter. She’s probably relieved she had time to at least try to prevent the deal happening between Baxter and Mr. Jenkins, which...you know, without AJ’s help they might not have had at all. 

AJ is, of course, glad she could help. But she’s got a favor to ask, too.

And of course, most people watching were kind of like, oh boy, what kinda off-the-wall crazy thing is she going to ask of Abigail... What kind’ve cringey thing... 

But it’s nothing crazy. Actually, it’s kind of sad.

She helped Abigail out more or less in exchange for this dress...and she knows it, but she still wants to return it.

Abigail is, understandably, a bit confused. Hey, you don’t have to return that? It’s a gift. You know. That you said you wanted before you’d help us out.

This is also when Bill starts paying attention to their conversation (you can see him lurking in the background, no longer dutifully packing bags).

Her nose is wrinkled up and she sounds a little nasally. Girl’s getting emotional over this. And she’s probably feeling pretty scared.

I think that’s why they show Bill paying attention. He’s feeling something watching this, and I’m mostly sure that what he’s feeling is his brand of Crushing Catholic Guilt. Namely for leaving her in the dark about what her fate is going to be.

I like that AJ isn’t delusional, though. She knows she’s going to prison and she knows that without some interference it will be for a long time (10+ years). Unfortunately, she doesn’t have anybody to speak favorably on her behalf about her character because nobody trusts her. She thinks she knows her fate...and it’ll be bad. It’s not the kind of place she’ll be wearing that dress at. 

So it’s nice that she tries to do the right thing and just give back this really nice dress she otherwise couldn’t afford and probably wouldn’t be seen wearing.

And hey, not to eyezoom in on little details, but back in S4, this is shown in her cabin:

That there is a skirt hung up to dry (which implies a recent wearing). So it’s not like AJ doesn’t have any feminine sense at all! It’s just, you know, very obvious that her “really good job” allowed her to be independent, not wealthy. The dress Dottie gave her is probably the nicest dress she’s ever worn. And it’s painfully obvious that she doesn’t really want to give it back, but feels she should.

The sad, desperate little “Please?” comes with a bit of a glassy-eyed expression, too. I’m glad Abigail just takes it from her.

Listen. I’m not saying I live for AJ and Abigail interacting, but I do. A little bit. I’m glad that we got this scene because I think AJ likes Abigail quite a bit and it’s good for her to feel appreciated. If nothing else, Abigail going out of her way to say thank-you makes AJ feel that way and she deserves that. It also has the added side-effect of telling her indirectly that, hey, maybe she wouldn’t be unwelcome in the town after she gets out of prison. At least, not unwelcome by Abigail.

Bill, on the other hand, is another story. She can’t quite look at him. Her gaze goes all over the place after she hands that dress over. It’s obvious she feels really awkward----maybe nervous about her transfer.

I guess you could interpret Bill watching her throughout this scene as him having told her to give the dress back, but that doesn’t really make sense for the characters. I think he’s just observing and she’s deeply uncomfortable because he seems to suddenly hate her and acts only too happy to toss her in prison, which is obviously something she’s terrified of having happen to her???

Anyway, she listens to him talk to Abigail and then after Abigail leaves, she starts up her fidgeting again.

Bill watches her do it, pretty much with the same expression that was on his face when he watched her give the dress to Abigail. It’s hard to say what he’s thinking but I’m sure he’s feeling conflicted about making her worry about her fate when he knows better than she does what it’ll be (and that it’s not as bad as she’s dreading).

An indeterminate amount of time later, they’re riding together through the forest.

AJ isn’t particularly chatty... In fact, she’s a bit subdued compared to what we’ve come to expect of her. That usually means she’s up to something or, well, she’s pouting. In this case, she’s probably still dealing with hurt feelings.

So it starts pouring and she and Bill erect a tarp to kind of protect them from the rain until it lets up...and AJ awkwardly tries to make conversation.

OF ALL THE QUESTIONS TO ASK.

It maybe wouldn’t be so awkward if it wasn’t such a personal question. And if, you know, it wasn’t a little extra personally hurtful for Bill to be thinking about. But hey, it’s not unreasonable for her to wonder. And of course she doesn’t know anything about his marriage to Nora.

Bill doesn’t even hesitate. He’s savage.

AJ, knowing she’s going to trial and to prison and feeling determined to see that through, probably sees no reason why, out here, away from other people, she can’t push him a little harder. What’s she got to lose?

She shoulder-bumps him gently in frustration.

Bill, probably bored and also sensing maybe she really is just trying to pass the time, bothers with an answer:

She immediately has an assumption in her head about his marriage, because it doesn’t take her long to respond with a kill shot.

Considering the reality of what ended his marriage (you know, the death of his grown son), this is awful. He asks her why she thinks he messed it up and she tells him it’s ‘just a wild guess.’

Bill could have really made her feel terrible by telling her that his marriage ended because his son died, or he could have deceived her the way he deceived Abigail by saying he “lost” his wife, but he doesn’t bother to try and make her feel awful. Not directly. No.

He says this:

Which...should sound familiar as it’s something she said to him last episode:

I’m pretty sure this is an intentional parallel, and it’s one that makes a lot of sense. They’re both refuting incorrect assumptions about themselves that the other makes.

Fortunately the rain stops and AJ feels shut down enough by Bill’s response and nature’s inability to buy her more time that she doesn’t ask any more questions. So they get up and get ready to get moving again only to find...

AJ’s horse is gone. Bill gets exceedingly upset about this and immediately goes on the offensive, accusing her of not tying it up, and then (basically) of lying when she says she did.

She tries to take the high road by making the best of it:

And then he accuses her of letting her horse go on purpose for some higher aim (i.e., riding with him). To which she says:

AJ starts getting things ready to go and Bill...

Well, Bill wishes for death. (Don’t worry, pal, you’ll get your wish sooner than you think.)

I resent the implication that AJ is silly or foolish enough to let her own horse loose on purpose, least of all just so she can sit all pressed up against Bill. She obviously still has feelings for him, but he’s done nothing but shut her down and put her down since she got back to Hope Valley. She can’t even say one joking comment without him getting defensive and making her feel bad about herself. Every time she seems to be doing okay, he swoops in out of nowhere and swats her back down again.

AJ might be a little thoughtless with the things she says (for example, not even thinking maybe Bill’s wife could be dead), but I don’t think she’s stupid enough to intentionally let her horse go. She’s just not. That thing costs money, there were supplies... Ugh.

I personally view this as it being more of an accident. Maybe she’s the one who was spooked by lightning and tied it up poorly in her hurry to get back to Bill, which enabled it to get away. Of course he’s not going to believe anything she says, so she might as well make light of it. At least this way she has some semblence of control. (It’s not much, but still...)

Sometime later, they’re slowly meandering their way through the woods (exceedingly slow because you can see too much sky at low points, which means this isn’t a very heavily wooded area/not a very big area for filming lmao).

She tries to talk again and brings up them riding double as “being like old times.” AKA, about a year ago when he was trying to drag her back to Hope Valley. Bill sort of starts to relax a bit and seems to kind of admit that, if nothing else, that whole debacle was “an adventure.”

AJ chooses this exact (terrible) moment to be like, “SO UHHHH do ya think you could...maybe put in...”

AJ...your timing could not be worse. You finally got Bill 4% relaxed and then you throw this at him. Something I’m pretty sure he suspected you were doing the whole time, it’s just...you’ve finally said it.

He doesn’t hesitate to try and call her out for it, either.

Except...her response is to sound confused. She even lifts her hands in a kind of “I don’t know” gesture. AJ has proven thus far to be a pretty terrible liar, so it’s safe to say she really isn’t connecting the dots, here. The flirting was a separate occasion, the conversation here is a separate occasion, and so in this moment she honestly has no idea what he’s talking about. She’s not linking all those occurrences.

I feel bad for her, too. She has no idea what’s about to happen.

And look, he’s linking everything together like it’s all some grand master scheme of hers. So the flirting, her attempts at small talk and asking him about his past marriage, her asking if he’ll speak to the judge...They’re all part of the same scheme. So he just lays it all out there for her about as plainly as he can:

You can see by her face she’s honestly trying to process what’s happening right now. The progression of her expression is amazing. 

“But--”

“What did I say what’s happening???”

“Oh brother.”

She tries to get her two cents in, but Bill doesn’t even give her a chance to talk. Personally, I kind of wanted to know what she was going to say. Was she about to try and convince him there is something between them? Or was she going to go another route, like trying to say it was genuine on her end? We’ll never know because Bill intervened. 

And at first you can see she’s not exactly... that perturbed by what he has to say.

But it’s quickly obvious to her that he’s not going to just state this again. He’s going to rant. And make sure she gets it. I mean, she’s obviously upset. And hurt. But go off I guess.

Ouch. I mean, the point of this is to more or less call attention to the fact that he assumes she’s not actually feeling anything (and is making it up) while also refusing to acknowledge the fact that if he just didn’t return her sentiment, he could just say so à la, “You like me but I don’t feel anything for you.” His approach is definitely more of a two-way street kind.

Poor AJ.

This is a call-back to the S4 episode, too, where he says something very similar:

I don’t want to get into a women’s studies reason why these two scenes make me cringe a little (or why they’d parallel the S4 scene again in the first place), but let’s just say it’s a little uncomfortable. The S4 scene was kind of amusing: AJ tries to escape, Bill is annoyed that she’s not letting him do his job. But the parallel here in S5 isn’t. Maybe we’re meant to feel that it’s over-the-top, that Bill’s doing that to cover up for the fact that he does feel something and believes she’s making a mockery of it by pretending on her end to use him to her advantage. (Her advantage being getting a reduced sentence.)

Anyway, my issue with the S5 scene is that he just...shuts her down so hard. He may as well hate her for the way he’s treated her since she turned herself in. And that behavior never gets addressed. It’s just passed over like everything that happens afterward somehow retcons it? Nahhh.

Anyway, two seconds later Bill’s horse gets a stone in its shoe and he’s still aggravated at AJ but they manage to speak civilly enough to one another. AJ hops off (all but hanging off of Bill on the way down lmao) and Bill checks the hoof while she goes for some water.

She sees movement seemingly before the rattlesnake makes its presence known, and tries to warn Bill about it, kind of pulling him back toward her.

Let’s not get into specifics about the breed of rattler, here, because this one wouldn’t ever be anywhere near Western Canada, especially not in October. Too cold for this breed, there.

They...could have done this better. It looks like he’s reaching for the snake when in reality his reaction (as a trained law officer) might be to throw his arm out to protect himself. It’s kind of the opposite reaction you want in this case, but 30 years makes it a habit he might not be able to avoid engaging in.

Worth noting is that he says, “Watch out!” to her even though she’s the one who saw it first. Because of that, I’m sure we’re meant to think he protected her from the snake, and due to the camera angle that makes sense; it’s supposedly next to them (and not in front of Bill/the horse). Still, I wish this scene had been more nicely done. I guess I’m just glad they didn’t make the bite itself AJ’s fault; if she’d wandered around off the path or something fidgeting/pacing while she waited for Bill to dig the stone out and he’d had to come and help her (while getting bitten in the process), I don’t know that I could forgive it. She’s had it rough enough IMO.

Anyway, Bill our hero tries to kind of push AJ back with one arm while throwing his other out to protect both of them, and in the process gets bitten. 

It’s worth noting that AJ watches the snake leave, and I know the reason is so, you know, the audience notices it’s a rattlesnake, but for the context of what she does later, we have to assume she took the time to try and identify the breed of rattlesnake, since...you know...antivenom isn’t a catch-all thing; there’s one for each poisonous snake out there.

The horse spooks for Reasons and doesn’t exactly gallop off but whatever, it’s a Hallmark show. I assume they did their best. Bill, kind of in a panic, tries to run after it, and AJ stops him.

Or...at least...we’re meant to think she does. In reality she probably couldn’t; he’s proven he can solidly outmatch her physically. IMO, he just realizes it’s foolish and stops on his own. It’ll speed up his heart too far and that’ll just push the venom through his bloodstream faster.

AJ asks the question nobody can really answer:

Bill’s sure to tell her he’s got about a day before he DIES, and while that’s not entirely accurate, given his age and lack of supplies on-hand, it’s safe to say if he doesn’t get help in 24 hours, he might not be able to recover, at least not fully. So the time frame isn’t a bad estimate for how long he has to find help before there’s no turning back.

He also sums up their situation in case she doesn’t know: they don’t have a horse and therefore have no way of getting help.

Was it really necessary to pin all that on her? She feels responsible. Which I’ll bring up more in a bit. The worst part is that it doesn’t feel pointedly said at AJ, which means...it’s for our benefit? Trust your audience, Hallmark; they can figure that out on their own.

Okay, so Bill decides he should cut open his wound, probably to help the poison drain out. They say if it’s bleeding, let it bleed out. He sort of eyeballs his injury and grips his knife in his left hand. Awkwardly.

The implication here is that he’s not as dexterous with his left hand so AJ offers to do that for him so he doesn’t, you know, do some irreparable damage to his hand or something.

I shrieked at this (apologies to my dear husband)! I called it in a private chat but didn’t think they’d actually follow through. I couldn’t believe they included THE SUCC. Well, it’s not like it’ll hurt to try. For all anyone knows, it could have bought him time. 

The reason they tell you not to cut it open is to avoid infection later; the reason they tell you not to suck the poison out because then it can get into your mouth which...you know, if you’re the one that was bit, just helps the venom spread faster.

AJ’s probably safe in doing it since she’s not the one who was bitten, and in this case it’s not like there’s much of a choice. Again, maybe it did help. At least she tried.

Hours later we can see it closed up.

And AJ didn’t overdo it with her own inflicted injury upon his hand.

She asks how he’s doing and hey, ‘cause he’s dying he’s pretty cooperative with answering her without being mean.

AJ accepts this answer (which is obvious, seeing as how he is shaking pretty badly), but still frets.

Bill tells her he’s heard that you could mix charcoal up into a paste and put it on there and maybe it’ll help absorb the venom.

There’s some truth to this, but it’s been hours so it won’t work. AJ doesn’t know that, though, and has obviously never heard of this, so she just tries it anyway. It’s possible if she reopened Bill’s injury and smeared it all over it, it would do some good, but...again, it’s been hours. Not just one.

Bill just watches her work.

In his defense, venom is usually pretty damn painful. For rattlesnakes, it isn’t instantly The Worst, but in 30 minutes the swelling can get pretty bad. A couple of hours in and you’re looking at some heavy sweating, numbness possibly in your face...and it doesn’t take a whole lot longer to get nauseated enough to throw up, to see double, have your vision fade to black, and various other complications. The pain from the swelling tends to be intense.

They’re obviously not capable of showing every symptom with Bill (such as the swelling), but with that in mind, his acting probably isn’t too over the top right here, especially in a situation where he knows he’s gonna die without help.

Anyway, hours later...

He’s sweating up a storm because his body’s trying to fight the venom (to no avail), but he tells AJ he thinks the charcoal maybe bought him some time, and hey, in the morning as soon as it’s light again, they’ll try finding help on foot.

She’d have to all but carry him, and I mean, she could maybe do that out of sheer determination, but it wouldn’t be fast and they don’t have the luxury of a slow pace. Also, with him in constant pain, he’d be hard to carry.

I’m pretty sure Bill doesn’t mean this seriously; he just kind of blurts it out.

But she takes it very seriously.

This help imply that rattlesnake was maybe closer to her than Bill to begin with, and if he hadn’t put himself in front of her, it might have gotten her instead. (That would still be more ideal as he can at least carry her.)

I was glad AJ acknowledged the fact that Bill was mean to her, but I dislike the “I don’t know why” bit mostly because there’s something that attracts you to him and, you know, he’s dying, so maybe say it? Of course they’re not gonna let it happen that easy, though. They’re not in Hope Valley anymore! So she just doesn’t know why she bothers caring about someone who seems to hate her.

Bill seems to be vaguely aware of what’s going on and only responds to the idea of her shucking her coat to give to him.

It’s a silly thing to worry about at this point but it’s exactly the sort of thing Bill would do.

She tucks him in good with her coat against his protests and frets over him a little more.

She’s probably worried half to death because, well, she feels somewhat responsible for everything that’s happened and if he dies it’s gonna be on her conscience. Let’s not pretend this is all 100% selfless. Even if her horse getting away was an accident, it still happened because she did a sloppy tie-up job.

(This is why I loathe the idea of her letting it go on purpose, because that renders all of this completely pointless; it looks more like it comes from nothing but obligation/guilt, which Bill’s dealt with plenty in his life already. If it’s at least an accident, then she’ll still feel some responsibility, but it leaves a lot more room for genuine care/consideration on her part.)

And we are led to believe she cares about him.

Bill, dying from fever and probably hallucinating from the pain of his messed up arm, loses his entire mind at being fussed over.

I scREAMED. It was just as jarringly awkward as it was in the preview from the week previous. It CAME OUT OF NOWHERE. WORSE???

(CC mess-up: it’s Adeline, not Adelaide.) 

But AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I cringed. My husband and I were laughing so hard it wasn’t funny. I felt like menopause hit a few years early and I was having a terrible hot flash. My face was beet red. I was so embarrassed by this stupid scene. COME ON.

I think my biggest irritation with these two lines is that there’s not a good build-up to them. Up to this point there’s only one reason for us to think that AJ matters even a little to Bill, and that’s his conversation with Abigail (where he kind of seems to want to make sure AJ eats well).

I guess the point of them is that maybe they’re supposed to stand out as weird because he’s like...dying or whatever, and therefore easily blamed on that and/or him being excessively feverish.

But when you’re watching it, it’s just so cringey that it takes away from the entire plotline! And that’s not doing anyone any favors.

But hey, the rest of it was kind of cute.

She gives him an out with the fever-talking line. And then he takes it and says, yeah, probably, because he’s still taking her to stand trial. And she tucks him in with her coat and tells him for the moment he’s not taking anyone anywhere.

And this part was honestly kinda touching, and maybe worth having just to see the kind of person Bill is when he thinks he’s dying, because that’s certainly what’s happening here:

Look, the man doesn’t tell her he loves her. He doesn’t say he has feelings for her. He doesn’t apologize for being mean to her earlier. He thinks maybe he’s going to die within the next day and certainly feels like he’s dying now, and all he does is tell her thank-you for staying with him. Like he thought she’d just abandon him and run off or something. The fact that she’s staying with him probably proves to him she has changed; she genuinely did want to turn herself in, even though it’s going to mean bad things for her.

And hey, it seems he’s afraid of dying alone and her staying with him mean something to him. She takes his hand in both of hers to reassure him and takes the time to respond sincerely to his thanks.

Josie’s delivery of “You’re welcome” here should win a prize. It’s emotional! She probably knows he thinks he’s going to die and he’s relieved he’s not going to have to be alone for it. She’s a lot more empathetic and understanding than she’s been given credit for.

And hey, he gets a forehead kiss out of this deal.

I doubt it’s enough to combat the sheer amount of pain he’s in, but I can pretend.

The next morning, Bill wakes up alone.

And he’s definitely much worse than before, as would be expected.

He gets to his feet, kind of tries moving a bit...

And goes down like a bag of rocks.

I think the acting here was overdone, though there’s no doubt in my mind that it was part of directing’s idea to do it. Little is much, Hallmark. Unfortunately they wanted Jack Wagner groaning every other second, which made the scene a little awkward to watch and...felt out of character.

Look, a person can’t help if they’re gasping for breath or shaking because they’re having a terrible reaction to, you know, venom in their body, but Bill isn’t the sort of character who likes to admit he’s not feeling well or doing okay, so I can’t picture him intentionally making noise. I feel like at this point in his life he’d be suppressing it to the best of his ability. Maybe something would slip out here and there, but...this scene is like 20 seconds long and it feels as if he’s groaning in pain for 19 of those seconds.

And when it’s overdone it just makes it harder to believe?

I guess I can appreciate/enjoy that his first thought is AJ, which means he’s not completely out of it. I wonder what went through his head, though. Hurt that she left him to die alone? Feeling abandoned by her after she acted like maybe she did care? Worried something might have happened to her? Fearful she ran away to continue life as a fugitive and feeling desperate to find her and finish his job?

It has to be something because, completely out of it, a short while later, he’s wandering around again.

Luckily, AJ shows up.

With mounties in tow.

She did an okay job of sounding pretty frantic, and the slower horse pace makes sense because he’s so weak if he made a sound she’d never hear it if she was riding at a dead gallop.

She rushes over to him and falls down on her knees and checks on him. Asks him why he left the camp... how he’s feeling...

Tells him she found a doctor with antivenom and that he’ll be okay. And she just keeps telling him he’ll be all right, petting his hair while he holds onto her jacket. Which, actually, is just about the first thing he does when she gets close enough to him to touch. Who knew Bill would be the sort of person to seek comfort when he feels miserable?

That last little whispered, “It’s gonna be okay” is so good.

It’s a little cheesy but hey, I’m okay with a little cheese. This part was, at least, believable. He probably feels so far beyond miserable he almost wishes he was dead. If this were a cold or something, he’d never be like this, but we’re talking an event that has a high pain level and disorientation involved. He probably needs the comfort.

And hey, AJ’s pretty good at comforting! Who would have guessed it?

She’s also pretty good at finding help for Bill in the dark, on foot, without her coat. I wonder what she said to get those men to come so fast.

Later in the morning, Bill is doing a bit better, but AJ had to ask so the implication is that she was removed from his presence until just a moment ago.

It makes sense. She is a fugitive set to stand trial.

Something that bothers me about this is that these mounties are just staring at her and Bill. There’s no privacy. They’re not even talking to each other and keeping an eye on her. It takes away from the scene between them because we know they’re being watched and I find it hard to believe they’d be okay with them kissing. What kind of a lawman is he, anyway, kissing on the person he was taking to prison???

That just brings his retirement into light as maybe more of a forced retirement. And other things. So much for Bill’s good reputation?

Anyway, I frowned at this, not because they let her stay long enough to make sure he’d be okay (because that isn’t so very far-fetched when you think about the fact that she got him help), but because the scene is otherwise dead silent and so all of these men are just...staring at them. While they have A Moment.

And I had the awful gut feeling that it’ll be brought up to her as soon as Bill’s out of sight, and not in a pleasant way.

AJ tells him it’s time for her to go but before she can move very far he stops her by, surprise!, grabbing the lapel of her jacket. (Hey, Bill, you left her coat in the woods somewhere... She’s gonna freeze in a work camp or something thanks to you.)

He tells her he knows the prosecutor in her case and that when she arrived, he may have wired ahead to call in a favor. (May have. Bill, just say you did something nice.) 

To this she says, “You did that for me?” in this kind of...awed tone. You know she didn’t think he wanted to help her even a little. I kind of get the feeling she assumes now that he’s feeling better and doesn’t need her, he’ll start being mean to her again. Of course it’s surprising to her.

Bill gives her the telegram.

The prosecutor is the same one who prosecuted Gowen (Georgia), and I feel sure that, since she wanted Gowen down and out, she’d be very willing to take pity on AJ (who was more a criminal of circumstance and fear than, you know, blatant choice).

Josie’s “thank you” here is so gentle. I mean, it could have been this overjoyed excited response, but...this means so much more and I love it. She’s genuinely touched by this. Maybe more-so because she doesn’t feel that he even likes her, so for him to do that anyway...sends a very strong signal about the type of person he is. He tries to be fair. At least...in this. -_-

Bill watches her and seems to see something he likes, maybe the sincerity that he’s refused to believe in up ‘til now. And when she turns to go he stops her again.

And there’s this short little moment where she’s obviously confused about what’s happening, but figures it out as he tugs her closer. You know he probably wouldn’t have much strength to do this with, but rather than intervene and take over the situation, AJ lets him follow through with it.

She lets him kiss her.

And I mean, it would have been so easy for her to lay one on him the moment she realized what he was aiming for, but she doesn’t. She lets him lead.

And let’s be real, it’s nice for her to feel that this time, he initiated. 

Also, make no mistake, the jacket-lapel-tugging kiss is Their Thing, now.

This line was so sweetly delivered that I can’t help but like it. I view it as...kind of an affirmation of her own trust in herself and not as her gently scolding Bill for denying feeling anything for her. She’s just quietly pleased that it’s real and it’s not just on her end. Or at least, seems not to be.

She scoots on over to her horse and he kind of smiles at her and she definitely smiles at him, and that’s it.

A decent end for them with the potential to bring her back again for S6 if they so choose.

All in all, the plot wasn’t bad. It just...took liberties that didn’t quite feel right, and was more than a little over-the-top in trying to force these two into the circumstances necessary to make the plot happen. 

(The thing is...it could have happened even with a horse. But I wont talk about how, here.)

Not to mention my annoyance at the fact that so much went unaddressed. Bill was CRUEL to her, especially in the last episode, and he acted that way even in front of Abigail! He didn’t apologize for acting that way, didn’t bother to explain himself so that she at least understood why he was mean... 

And there’s no way she knows exactly. It’s just...he’s being nice to her now, and she can probably only assume it’s because she did something for him.

So what’s her takeaway here, huh? That...if she’s useful he’ll want her around and treat her well? But then the second she’s not useful anymore...what happens? He just throws her away? Treats her like a nuisance? 

I know Hallmark wants us to think the roadblock in their relationship is her prison sentence, it’s not. It’s at least ten different things.

And hey < a year in prison/work camp/detention center isn’t going to last that long. Considering Bill got Henry out of it for the holidays, I kind of expect that for AJ, too (and if it doesn’t happen, it should at least be mentioned as an attempted thing). That means the REAL issues are something to contend with...as early as the Christmas special.

Lookit, I’m not here for Round 2 of Treat AJ Like Shit. I don’t want it. Their banter in S4 was funny, but most of their S5 banter wasn’t banter. It was AJ trying to engage in banter/flirting and Bill smacking her down like the hand of God.

 AJ isn’t a dangerous, violent criminal; she’s mostly a victim of circumstance. And it’s like...so few characters acknowledge that. Henry might refuse to because, well, he’s Henry, but Bill should know that better than literally anyone after a 30-year career in the law! Doubly so after he quit because the law wasn’t fair.

But here we are at her last appearance in S5 going, “But hey, what about all those things that weren’t discussed and may come up again later.”

Or, “What about the things that should come up later?”

Hallmark doesn’t care. They want us to think if AJ wasn’t going to prison right now, Bill would just about marry her. Which is absurd. They don’t know each other that well (total they’ve had a week or so together), and they haven’t even managed to communicate their feelings effectively for a full hour. Huh-uh. If AJ comes back in S6 at all (even in the Christmas special), there had best be some serious relationship talk involved.

'Cause hey: AJ barely knows Bill. Why would he trust her AT ALL after the stunts she pulled? You can argue that she was just having harmless fun flirting with him, but she wanted to discuss whether or not there was something between them, or could be. At a point when:

she spent a few days in his presence previously, and

he swiftly rejected her advances and locked her in a jail cell just hours earlier.

AJ hasn’t been written to be unreasonable at all! So why is she so attached to the idea of Bill feeling something for her? 

It doesn’t make sense.

And what we end up with is AJ being a clingy unreasonable woman and Bill being the poor put-upon man who has to deal with her ~unwanted (or are they?) advances.

MISS ME WITH THAT.

Like, what does she like about Bill? What in S4 made her think, hey, if I wasn’t a fugitive I could have a future with this man? It can’t have just been that kiss. It wasn’t like he kissed her back so hard he pushed her up against the nearest wall and really let loose. It was a short kiss. Yes, he returns it, he reacts to it, but she’s sensible enough a person it feels silly to think she spent the last year obsessing over it and what it might mean.

(Just because he returns a kiss doesn’t mean he’s into you, let alone wants you moving to his town.)

And then, too, why does he like her?

I can’t even get into all that because I just have to shrug and say, “Because the actors have chemistry, duh!” Nobody’s surprised. Hallmark uses that as a cheat code instead of, you know, showing anything that might demonstrate actual attraction.

For example, having Bill say something that resonates with her in S4 to give her a reason to admire him.

But therein lies the problem with this pairing. It could be really fun, really sweet, really touching. But Hallmark wants the reward without putting in the effort to develop the characters and make them feel like individuals.

Again, back to the “I’ve never met anyone like you” line. It’s so awkward. Why does he say that? What are we, the audience, meant to infer by it?

It’s easy for me, a writer, to come up with an answer, but it should be obvious to almost everyone. That it’s not--that most people think it came out of nowhere--says Hallmark did it poorly.

The words make sense if you take his meaning to be an expression of attraction. He was in a presumably loveless, vaguely unhappy and obligatory marriage for 20 years. That he might now be feeling an attraction for someone (a strong one, no less) would be highly confusing. What do you do about an attraction when you feel it so late in life? He didn’t go through courtship with Nora. He isn’t very good at it. Heck, we watched him flub it bad with Abigail (and what was that based on, anyway? They had no chemistry). But for him to feel a sudden strong attraction to AJ? Man, that’s terrifying and weird and AWFUL not just because he doesn’t know what to do with it, but because she’s a criminal and he can’t!

But then he can honestly say: “I’ve never met anyone like you.” He’s never found someone who sparked a feeling like that in him.

But again, it’s not obvious to everyone. It sounds like he’s saying he’s never met anyone who cared about him before, and that’s not true. Martin cared about him. Jonas cared about him. Abigail cared about him. Dottie cared about him. Lee cared about him. Jack cared about him. He has plenty of friends and acquaintances in Hope Valley.

The timing of this moment tells us it’s supposed to be special but...it doesn’t feel that way. It feels awkward.

Why? Because we don’t get to see that attraction at work. I mean, sure, he got flustered seeing her dressed up nicely, but she doesn’t look like that now (and he’s seen plenty of pretty women before--what makes AJ special?). Besides, Hallmark is all about romantic attraction, not the physical. What makes Bill feel more than a physical attraction?

We don’t really have a reason. Hallmark said, “Hey the actors have chemistry together!” and left it at that. We can imagine it’s AJ’s dazzling wit or her pretty smile or her weird mannerisms that charm him against his better judgment, but the series never QUITE manages to hit on anything that we’re allowed to see.

Hey, maybe they cut a scene out. Who knows? I feel like if we’d had at least one more scene of Bill showing he cares (or being honestly gentle or kind to her while she was in jail), then it’d be easy to say, “Oh man, here when he thinks he’s dying, he wants her to know she’s special in some way to him.”

But without it, it just falls...flat.

Here’s to hoping S6 doesn’t drop the ball with them, if they bother bringing Josie back at all.

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Samsung Galaxy A51 review: Wait for a price drop

Image credit: Chris Velazco/Engadget It's not a bad phone, just a bad deal. (In the US, anyway.)

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Samsung got me. On paper, the company's Galaxy A51 appears to have everything you could want out of a $400 smartphone. A big, pretty screen. A multitude of cameras. A 4,000mAh battery. A flagship-inspired design, and a headphone jack. As an avid -- some might say rabid -- fan of ambitious midrange smartphones, I was ready for the A51 to take its place alongside other modestly priced standouts like the Pixel 3a XL and the iPhone SE. It never did.That’s not to say the Galaxy A51 is a bad phone. Samsung got a lot right here, and over a week of testing, I found it perfectly pleasant at times. Sadly, all the things the company handled well couldn't fully offset some janky, inconsistent performance: This is a $400 device that sometimes runs like a $250 one. I don’t think that's enough to make the A51 a bad smartphone, but it does make it a bad deal. Excellent design Big and beautiful AMOLED screen Flexible multi-camera system Laggy performance Camera quality is largely unremarkable Mediocre battery life Samsung’s Galaxy A51 packs a great screen, a handful of cameras, and a big battery -- what more could you ask from a mid-range smartphone? Well, more consistent performance, for one. Despite using a reasonably powerful chipset, the A51 is often plagued by slow app launches and laggy animations, to the point when it sometimes feels like a device that costs much less. Battery life wasn’t as good as we had hoped for, either. While Samsung got a lot right with the Galaxy A51, it never feels as consistently nice to use as some of truly great devices available in its price range.

Be the first to review the Galaxy A51 LTE? Your ratings help us make the buyer’s guide better for everyone. Write a review Key specs ConfigurationsThe Galaxy A51 I've been testing is a Verizon Wireless model with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. (Disclaimer: Verizon is Engadget's parent company, but it has no influence over what we say.) Sprint and AT&T also offer this version of the A51, and no matter which carrier you choose, they'll all sell you the phone outright for $399. That doesn't sound too steep, but it's worth noting that the phone can be had for less when purchased unlocked, especially if you live outside the United States. If you're serious about owning an A51, scouting out a good deal is a must: This isn't worth $400.

Chris Velazco/Engadget Image credit: Chris Velazco/Engadget Flagship styleIf there's one thing Samsung deserves credit for, it's that the A51 in no way looks like a $400 phone. With a surprisingly trim frame; an eye-catching, light-refracting finish; and some incredibly small bezels, this midrange model could easily pass for a phone that costs twice as much. As far as I'm concerned, this is the best-looking midrange smartphone out there. Just keep in mind that thanks to its display, the A51 might be a nonstarter for people with smaller hands -- it's thin but still plenty large.Of course, since this phone costs a fraction of what a flagship does, Samsung had to be judicious about balancing style and substance. Consider Samsung's choice of materials: Wrapping a phone in glass quickly makes its price tag jump, so the company used what it calls "Glasstic" for the A51's body. As the name suggests, that just means this phone has a plastic frame that sort of feels like glass if you don't scrutinize it too much. The Galaxy A51 also lacks an IP-rating for water and dust resistance, which is very common for phones in this price range. (Note: If you Google "A51 water resistance," you might see a search result from Verizon claiming the A51 is rated IP68 -- it absolutely is not.) 

Chris Velazco/Engadget The rest of the phone's design is fairly standard. There's a USB-C port that supports 15W fast charging and a combination nanoSIM/microSD card tray on the phone's right side that you can use to augment the standard 128GB of storage. If you're a music fan, you'll also appreciate the proper headphone jack Samsung squeezed into the A51, since its single speaker is pretty awful. What helps elevate the A51's design is its spacious, 6.5-inch, Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen. It's one of Samsung's Infinity-O displays which, if you're allergic to marketing BS, means there's a tiny hole cut out of the panel to accommodate a 32-megapixel front camera. It’s remarkably small and would be easy enough to overlook were it not for the shiny metallic ring surrounding it -- it's almost like Samsung wants you to keep looking at it. Thankfully, the rest of the screen is typical Samsung: Deep blacks, punchy colors, and great viewing angles considering the price. Its max brightness feels a little anemic so outdoor use can be a little tricky at times, but the display is very well-suited to binging on YouTube videos while you're sheltering at home.The screen is very often the most expensive component in a smartphone, and I'm glad that Samsung went with the display it did here. It's not just easy on the eyes; it’s a great rebuttal to devices like the iPhone SE that rely on dated designs to keep costs down. Visually, the A51 is a stunner, but as my parents always used to tell me, looks aren't everything.

Chris Velazco/Engadget Image credit: Chris Velazco/Engadget In use The frustration here begins when you go to unlock the phone. There's an optical fingerprint sensor under the display, and it's... not great. When it does work, it usually takes a while to actually recognize my thumb. Too often, though, the sensor just didn't work. Normally, you'd see a bit of green whooshing around your finger to let you know the sensor was analyzing your print, but that didn't always appear. Repeated screen cleanings didn't fix the issue, and neither did re-enrolling my fingers. For your sanity, maybe just set up a PIN or an unlock pattern instead.Once I made it in, a bigger issue became obvious pretty quickly -- the A51 is noticeably laggy at times. Switching between apps frequently felt choppy, as did thumbing through pages of apps, and even just popping back out to the home screen. You know, the stuff you do every day.To be clear, this doesn’t happen constantly, and I didn’t have much to complain about when the phone was firing on all cylinders. If you're the kind of person who just wants to watch videos and maybe send a few emails to the family, you might not even notice this momentary lag. But if you're a fan of smooth, consistent performance, be prepared for some disappointment -- stuttering animations and delayed app launches are never too far away, and it gets old pretty quickly. Gallery: Samsung Galaxy A51 review photos | 13 Photos

Exactly why the A51 runs the way it does isn't wholly clear, but part of the issue probably lies with Samsung's choice of chipset. Rather than use a Qualcomm Snapdragon like most US-bound Android phones, the company ran with its in-house Exynos 9611. From what I can tell, there's not much difference between this sliver of silicon and the Exynos 9610 Samsung started using in late 2018 -- some of the CPU cores are marginally faster and it supports a wider variety of rear cameras, but that's really it. That Samsung would splurge on a great screen and use a minor refresh of a chip that was announced a little over two years ago tells you a lot about its priorities. The funny thing is, this chipset is no slouch. It falls somewhere between the $250 Moto G Power (with a Snapdragon 665 chipset) and the $470 Pixel 3 XL (with a Snapdragon 670), which is exactly what you'd expect considering how much these phones cost. The A51 benchmarks pretty well, too -- it’s nowhere near flagship level, but well in line with other US-bound devices we’ve seen in this price range. That being the case, it seems more likely that this inconsistent performance is due to a lack of software optimization that could theoretically be fixed in a future update. (For what it’s worth, Samsung wouldn’t confirm that any such updates were in the works.)In fairness to Samsung, people contemplating a $400 smartphone probably know not to expect best-in-class performance. The bigger issue here is that it’s still a considerable sum to drop on a smartphone, and the A51's balance of performance and price just doesn’t feel right. 

Chris Velazco/Engadget The Moto G Power -- a phone that costs $150 less with an older chipset -- manages to run a little more consistently. And the Pixel 3a XL? Forget about it. The difference in smoothness and the overall quality of experience between these devices skews heavily in the Pixel's favor. It’s also worth noting that all three of these phones have 4GB of RAM, so it’s not like Motorola or Google had more resources to work with here. And if you’re not married to Android, there's always the iPhone SE. It's a $400 arrow aimed at Samsung's heart and runs just as well as Apple’s most expensive smartphones. Whether it's because of a heavy touch with software, poor memory management, or something else entirely, this questionable performance makes the A51 hard to recommend for the price. I had hoped that epic battery life would've sweetened the deal here, but it doesn’t. Despite packing a pretty sizable 4,000mAh (along with a mid-range chipset and a screen that only runs at 1080p), the Galaxy A51 is only good for about one full day of use. That's not awful by any stretch, but when other mid-range phones -- like the Moto G Power -- have battery lives measured in days instead of hours, the A51 can't help but feel a little disappointing.

Chris Velazco/Engadget Image credit: Chris Velazco/Engadget Plenty of camerasAt this point, the one thing that could redeem the A51 is truly excellent camera performance. Calling the phone's trio of rear cameras "excellent" would be a stretch, but in most cases, they're good enough.And that's right, I said "trio" although there are four lenses on the A51's rear. Most of the time you'll wind up using the 48-megapixel standard wide camera which, like most other phones with pixel-rich sensors, produces smaller 12-megapixel stills by default. As usual for a Samsung phone, the results feature lots of vivid colors, though pixel-peepers will notice a surprising lack of fine details upon zooming in. That’s despite Samsung’s typical -- and almost stylized -- image processing, too. Big surprise, right? Like nearly every Samsung camera before it, this one seems tuned to deliver images that look slightly nicer than reality. These are great photos to post on Instagram, but maybe not for printing and mounting on your wall. Unfortunately, even the decently wide f/2.0 aperture doesn't help the A51's main camera much in low light -- colors tend to look a little washed out, and details get smeared into oblivion. Gallery: Samsung Galaxy A51 camera samples | 24 Photos

Meanwhile, the 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It captures a 123-degree field of view with minimal barrel distortion around the edges, and its colors are even poppier and more saturated than what you'd get out of the main camera. If you're walking around and shooting photos on a clear day, those pale blue skies will turn out a little more neon than you'd expect. Since this camera is mainly meant to capture lots of attractive, well-lit space, it's no surprise that it struggles more than the main camera does in low light.Rather than a telephoto camera (which was almost certainly too expensive for a phone like this), the A51's third sensor is a 5-megapixel affair for macro photos. I've wondered in the past who spends their time bopping around and looking for very small things to take photos of, but ever since testing the OnePlus 8 Pro, I've become one of those people. It's too bad, then, that this never produced the sort of crisp, super-tight images I was hoping for. That's partially because the camera's image processing seems to iron out some of those minute details, but also because the narrow depth of field means getting everything framed up just right can take some work.And that last lens? It's for a 5-megapixel depth sensor that Samsung uses to capture data for more bokeh-filled portraits. It does its job well. I've seen more than a few phones struggle with accurately separating the subject from its background, but the A51 handles the task without much fuss. Ultimately, no matter which camera you spend the most time with, be prepared for good -- not great -- results. If getting the best overall photo is your biggest concern, you'd still be much better off with one of Google's Pixel 3As or the iPhone SE. Samsung's real edge here doesn't lay in the quality of its images so much as the flexibility that multiple cameras provide.

Chris Velazco/Engadget Wrap-upWith the Galaxy A51, Samsung tried to bring some flagship style and features to an affordable smartphone. It wasn't completely successful, but the effort is appreciated. More than anything, what Samsung really got wrong here (in the US, at least) is the phone's price. If the Galaxy A51 cost closer to $300, as it does in certain overseas markets, Samsung's strange blend of style and stymied performance would be a lot easier to swallow. As it stands, though, the A51 never feels as consistently smooth as some of the truly great devices you can get for around $400 now. Sure, the Pixel 3a XL and the iPhone SE lack the A51’s panache, but they’re just nicer to use. And hey -- if you’re really itching for a Samsung phone and have some latitude in your budget, the slightly more powerful Galaxy A71 might be a better choice. If you can find a sweet deal -- or don't mind trading an older phone in -- the Galaxy A51 isn't a bad option. Anyone who doesn't need a phone now though should wait until Google releases its new mid-range Pixel and decide.  All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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6): Favorite Animal: Bats, Ravens, Parrots

7): Hours of Sleep: 4-6 hours. I think sleeping is a waste of time. I’d rather be doing literally anything else.

8): Dogs or Cats: I grew up with both! I love them both but if I could only have one; Dog. I love me the puppers!

9): Number of Blankets: 1 Heavy Comforter. Not sure you're suppose to use them as a blanket. But it’s soft and very warm.

10): Dream Trip: Norway!!! I want to go to Norway! Occasionally I wanna visit France. But Norway would be cool af!!!

11.) Dream Job: I’m kinda late thinking about what I want as a career. But I’m split between art, computer sciences and wanting to be a mortician!  Thinking about college finally next year!

12.) Time: 8:40pm

13.): Birthday: May 24th

14.): Favorite Bands: Way to many. AURORA, Halsey, Ed Sheeran, MisterWives. I love basically all music. Though I’m not to fond of rap or the older country songs.

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15 Things Facebook Ads Should Do Better

Lets hop right into it. Facebook can be a powerful advertising tool but there are several things that annoy me about the platform or I think could be done better. So here are 15 of those things that I think Facebook should fix in order to make the platform better for advertisers.

1) User Interface Speed.

This complaint is pretty simple. Ads manager as a platform can be incredibly slow. At its best, lets just say the speed is…serviceable. Not once have I been impressed by the platforms speed. Publishing ads can take quite a long time, and heck, even switching between tabs and column metrics can get laggy. An upgrade on Facebook’s part to UI speed would be a great quality of life improvement.

2) Audience performance breakdowns from ad sets detailed targeting.

Facebook has a ton of detailed targeting options to choose from to help you target the correct audience. Here’s my issue though, why can’t I get a breakdown of performance between those interests/behaviors/demographics if they are layered into the same ad set? Sure, you can tell me to just separate those audiences into their own ad sets and that way I can know how each of them performs. Tell me that and I’ll tell you you’ve probably never had to manage a large account. Sometimes you HAVE TO layer audiences together to get a decent audience size especially if you target specific geo locations independently.

Say you have 50 geo locations that you need to target independently and you have 5 interest categories you’ve layered together to get a decent audience size on each geo. Well by breaking them out into their own ad sets we have just created an extra 250 ad sets along with all the ads that go along with it. Oh and you have to implement lookalike ad sets, behavioral ad sets, and remarketing ad sets into your account too. Suddenly your account has gotten to be a bit large and hard to keep track of things. Remember my complaint about UI speed, well enjoy taking time uploading ads for 250 ad sets.

3) Bring back audience size estimator for custom audiences.

While we are on the topic of ad sets, a great feature included here is the potential reach estimator that changes as you layer targeting into the ad set. Super useful! Until you add any kind of custom audience to that ad set. Then the size estimator becomes “unavailable”. If your strategy has you excluding past purchasers from your ad set, you can’t see the audience size estimator anymore. Did Facebook do this due to privacy issues? Well heres the thing, I can see my audiences sizes like past purchasers outside of an ad set either in the audiences section of Ads Manager or in CRM data. So I can still find out how big the audience size is at the ad set level…just in a super roundabout and time consuming way. Please Facebook, bring back size estimator in full.

4) Search by asset/image name at ad creation stage.

Why oh why can’t I search for an image by name at the ad creation stage? I can in the asset library but not at ad creation stage? Why? Look at this screenshot…there is no place to search for an image by name. Its incredibly frustrating to endlessly scroll through this mess every time I am trying to find a specific image. We name files so we can find them easily, but that doesn’t really matter when creating an ad…because you can’t search for it. A search bar here should definitely be a thing.

5) Facebook reaction faces on ads.

Please excuse my attempts to black out text on this ad, it was done so to protect who the advertiser is and ad copy strategy. Just pay attention to the reaction faces near the bottom. 196 people have either liked, loved, or “angry faced” this ad. Look closer though, only 3 people have clicked the angry face. So why is it so prominently displayed right next to the number 196? Out of 196 people, only three clicked the angry face. In my opinion, having that angry face hurts the ad’s appearance. I’m not saying the angry face should never be displayed…but there has got to be some threshold for this stuff. If 50 people had clicked the angry face, yes I could understand it being displayed like this. But only three did.

6) Ad set budget grouping for budget optimization.

Lets take a break from me talking about things that really annoy me to one that isn’t so much an annoyance but a feature I’d like to see done more in depth. Campaign budget optimization is a pretty cool tool for managing budgets and helping you get the most results possible. I would love to be able to do this on an ad set level of some sort. Say I have 9 ad sets in a campaign that target 3 different geo locations (3 ad sets per location each using different targeting). I would love to house all these geos under one campaign and group ad sets together based on location to have their own budget optimization. This would eliminate the need to break this campaign out into 3 separate campaigns to effectively budget for each geo and use budget optimization.

7) Campaign budget optimization from lifetime to daily.

I would love to be able to switch a campaigns budget optimization from lifetime budget to daily budget after a campaign has been published. I am not sure why you can’t but it seems like something that should be a thing.

8) Performance by country breakdown data.

I think its great we can breakdown our campaigns/ad sets/ads by how they have performed by country. Its also great we can export this data into excel. But I absolutely hate the fact that when you download this data, Facebook spits out the countries by 2 letter country code and not the entire country name. If you ever go into an account that is targeting the entire world in one campaign and want to know how each country is performing (download the data, format it, make some pretty graphs, etc) be ready to look up each country’s 2 letter code. I don’t know about you but I sure haven’t memorized all of them.

9) Filter by ad type.

Facebook allows you to create some pretty cool ad types like single image, carousel, video, slideshow, etc. But if you ever want to find a specific ad type in your account quickly you better name your ads appropriately with the ad type it is. Because you can’t filter by ad type for some reason. This could be a pretty useful filtering option.

10) Filtering with OR statements.

Here is an example of what I mean. Lets say I want to quickly filter for campaigns in my account that have a campaign name containing “apples” or “oranges”. If you set a campaign name filter to campaigns that contain “apples” you’ll get intended results. As soon as you try to layer on another campaign name filter with contains “oranges” you suddenly won’t find any results….unless you have a campaign name that contains both, but for the sake of the argument assume you’ve broken you apples and oranges campaigns into separate campaigns. What I’m getting at is I should be able to layer naming filters, or any other filters, with an OR statement.

11) Asset customization for all placements.

I am of the mind set that you should opt in to all of the placements on Facebook ads that make sense, and then let the algorithm decide which placement is best to show your ads on. I have found the best performance using this method. However I would also like to utilize asset customization for each placement so my ads look as good as possible where they show. Yet not all placements are available for asset customization. I hope Facebook gets around to fixing this, as it is a feature I would like to use more of.

12) Ads Manager UI kicks you to weird locations after certain actions.

Have you ever clicked into one campaign, then clicked into one ad set, and wanted to create an ad for that specific place? Ever noticed how as soon as you create that ad and its added as a draft the UI kicks you out of the campaign and ad set you were trying to create that ad in? Happens every…single…time. Why is this a thing? Confuses the heck out of me sometimes when I am trying to keep track of where I am putting ads.

13) Edit product catalog sets after creation

The Facebook catalog is a great tool for uploading your inventory and using dynamic ads to sell products. Its also useful that you can create product sets based on certain inventory features. What I don’t understand is why I can’t edit a product set after its been created. I have to duplicate the set and then make changes. So now I have two product sets when all I really needed was to make a minor change to one. Keep this process up over time and you’ll have a lot of product sets unless you delete them. Which yeah, that is totally an option but it also seems pretty reasonable to let us edit an existing product set. Especially since after making the changes you need to, you then have to go back into ads manager and make necessary changes to ad sets/ads.

14) Ability to enable ads in review.

This one annoys me greatly at times. If I publish an ad, I understand it needs to go through the review process to ensure its an appropriate ad and abides by Facebook’s policies. I just wish Facebook would let me enable the ad while its in review. It doesn’t have to run, it just needs to be enabled. That way, as soon as it passes the review process it will begin running. Nope, I have to wait for the ad to be reviewed before I can enable it. This becomes a problem when an ad NEEDS to be run ASAP but the ad then just sits in review for hours for no reason. Now I have to watch this ad’s review status late into the night just so I can then enable it. It would be so easy if I could enable an ad during the review process and then the ad would just not serve to anybody if it doesn’t pass the review process.

15) Too many metrics with weird column presets.

This last one is just an opinion of mine I guess you could say. I think Facebook has way too much going on when it comes to metrics, with a specific nod to the preset columns in Ads Manager. Here are the defaults below. First off we have two different “performance” presets….one just has clicks added to it. That should probably just be one option. While we’re at it, “carousel engagement” could probably disappear since its this weird combination of “performance”, “delivery”, and “engagement”. Have you ever clicked on “cross-device”? When I think cross-device, I think about customer journey…how they started on mobile Facebook, then went to Adwords and clicked an ad on mobile, and then went to desktop and converted. Thats cross-device. Whatever this preset is, well, its nothing like I described above. Maybe I just have a different definition of “cross-device”. Maybe I am being way too over the top with this criticism, but its little things like this I think could help clean up the clutter in ads manager.

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15 Things Facebook Ads Should Do Better

Lets hop right into it. Facebook can be a powerful advertising tool but there are several things that annoy me about the platform or I think could be done better. So here are 15 of those things that I think Facebook should fix in order to make the platform better for advertisers.

1) User Interface Speed.

This complaint is pretty simple. Ads manager as a platform can be incredibly slow. At its best, lets just say the speed is…serviceable. Not once have I been impressed by the platforms speed. Publishing ads can take quite a long time, and heck, even switching between tabs and column metrics can get laggy. An upgrade on Facebook’s part to UI speed would be a great quality of life improvement.

2) Audience performance breakdowns from ad sets detailed targeting.

Facebook has a ton of detailed targeting options to choose from to help you target the correct audience. Here’s my issue though, why can’t I get a breakdown of performance between those interests/behaviors/demographics if they are layered into the same ad set? Sure, you can tell me to just separate those audiences into their own ad sets and that way I can know how each of them performs. Tell me that and I’ll tell you you’ve probably never had to manage a large account. Sometimes you HAVE TO layer audiences together to get a decent audience size especially if you target specific geo locations independently.

Say you have 50 geo locations that you need to target independently and you have 5 interest categories you’ve layered together to get a decent audience size on each geo. Well by breaking them out into their own ad sets we have just created an extra 250 ad sets along with all the ads that go along with it. Oh and you have to implement lookalike ad sets, behavioral ad sets, and remarketing ad sets into your account too. Suddenly your account has gotten to be a bit large and hard to keep track of things. Remember my complaint about UI speed, well enjoy taking time uploading ads for 250 ad sets.

3) Bring back audience size estimator for custom audiences.

While we are on the topic of ad sets, a great feature included here is the potential reach estimator that changes as you layer targeting into the ad set. Super useful! Until you add any kind of custom audience to that ad set. Then the size estimator becomes “unavailable”. If your strategy has you excluding past purchasers from your ad set, you can’t see the audience size estimator anymore. Did Facebook do this due to privacy issues? Well heres the thing, I can see my audiences sizes like past purchasers outside of an ad set either in the audiences section of Ads Manager or in CRM data. So I can still find out how big the audience size is at the ad set level…just in a super roundabout and time consuming way. Please Facebook, bring back size estimator in full.

4) Search by asset/image name at ad creation stage.

Why oh why can’t I search for an image by name at the ad creation stage? I can in the asset library but not at ad creation stage? Why? Look at this screenshot…there is no place to search for an image by name. Its incredibly frustrating to endlessly scroll through this mess every time I am trying to find a specific image. We name files so we can find them easily, but that doesn’t really matter when creating an ad…because you can’t search for it. A search bar here should definitely be a thing.

5) Facebook reaction faces on ads.

Please excuse my attempts to black out text on this ad, it was done so to protect who the advertiser is and ad copy strategy. Just pay attention to the reaction faces near the bottom. 196 people have either liked, loved, or “angry faced” this ad. Look closer though, only 3 people have clicked the angry face. So why is it so prominently displayed right next to the number 196? Out of 196 people, only three clicked the angry face. In my opinion, having that angry face hurts the ad’s appearance. I’m not saying the angry face should never be displayed…but there has got to be some threshold for this stuff. If 50 people had clicked the angry face, yes I could understand it being displayed like this. But only three did.

6) Ad set budget grouping for budget optimization.

Lets take a break from me talking about things that really annoy me to one that isn’t so much an annoyance but a feature I’d like to see done more in depth. Campaign budget optimization is a pretty cool tool for managing budgets and helping you get the most results possible. I would love to be able to do this on an ad set level of some sort. Say I have 9 ad sets in a campaign that target 3 different geo locations (3 ad sets per location each using different targeting). I would love to house all these geos under one campaign and group ad sets together based on location to have their own budget optimization. This would eliminate the need to break this campaign out into 3 separate campaigns to effectively budget for each geo and use budget optimization.

7) Campaign budget optimization from lifetime to daily.

I would love to be able to switch a campaigns budget optimization from lifetime budget to daily budget after a campaign has been published. I am not sure why you can’t but it seems like something that should be a thing.

8) Performance by country breakdown data.

I think its great we can breakdown our campaigns/ad sets/ads by how they have performed by country. Its also great we can export this data into excel. But I absolutely hate the fact that when you download this data, Facebook spits out the countries by 2 letter country code and not the entire country name. If you ever go into an account that is targeting the entire world in one campaign and want to know how each country is performing (download the data, format it, make some pretty graphs, etc) be ready to look up each country’s 2 letter code. I don’t know about you but I sure haven’t memorized all of them.

9) Filter by ad type.

Facebook allows you to create some pretty cool ad types like single image, carousel, video, slideshow, etc. But if you ever want to find a specific ad type in your account quickly you better name your ads appropriately with the ad type it is. Because you can’t filter by ad type for some reason. This could be a pretty useful filtering option.

10) Filtering with OR statements.

Here is an example of what I mean. Lets say I want to quickly filter for campaigns in my account that have a campaign name containing “apples” or “oranges”. If you set a campaign name filter to campaigns that contain “apples” you’ll get intended results. As soon as you try to layer on another campaign name filter with contains “oranges” you suddenly won’t find any results….unless you have a campaign name that contains both, but for the sake of the argument assume you’ve broken you apples and oranges campaigns into separate campaigns. What I’m getting at is I should be able to layer naming filters, or any other filters, with an OR statement.

11) Asset customization for all placements.

I am of the mind set that you should opt in to all of the placements on Facebook ads that make sense, and then let the algorithm decide which placement is best to show your ads on. I have found the best performance using this method. However I would also like to utilize asset customization for each placement so my ads look as good as possible where they show. Yet not all placements are available for asset customization. I hope Facebook gets around to fixing this, as it is a feature I would like to use more of.

12) Ads Manager UI kicks you to weird locations after certain actions.

Have you ever clicked into one campaign, then clicked into one ad set, and wanted to create an ad for that specific place? Ever noticed how as soon as you create that ad and its added as a draft the UI kicks you out of the campaign and ad set you were trying to create that ad in? Happens every…single…time. Why is this a thing? Confuses the heck out of me sometimes when I am trying to keep track of where I am putting ads.

13) Edit product catalog sets after creation

The Facebook catalog is a great tool for uploading your inventory and using dynamic ads to sell products. Its also useful that you can create product sets based on certain inventory features. What I don’t understand is why I can’t edit a product set after its been created. I have to duplicate the set and then make changes. So now I have two product sets when all I really needed was to make a minor change to one. Keep this process up over time and you’ll have a lot of product sets unless you delete them. Which yeah, that is totally an option but it also seems pretty reasonable to let us edit an existing product set. Especially since after making the changes you need to, you then have to go back into ads manager and make necessary changes to ad sets/ads.

14) Ability to enable ads in review.

This one annoys me greatly at times. If I publish an ad, I understand it needs to go through the review process to ensure its an appropriate ad and abides by Facebook’s policies. I just wish Facebook would let me enable the ad while its in review. It doesn’t have to run, it just needs to be enabled. That way, as soon as it passes the review process it will begin running. Nope, I have to wait for the ad to be reviewed before I can enable it. This becomes a problem when an ad NEEDS to be run ASAP but the ad then just sits in review for hours for no reason. Now I have to watch this ad’s review status late into the night just so I can then enable it. It would be so easy if I could enable an ad during the review process and then the ad would just not serve to anybody if it doesn’t pass the review process.

15) Too many metrics with weird column presets.

This last one is just an opinion of mine I guess you could say. I think Facebook has way too much going on when it comes to metrics, with a specific nod to the preset columns in Ads Manager. Here are the defaults below. First off we have two different “performance” presets….one just has clicks added to it. That should probably just be one option. While we’re at it, “carousel engagement” could probably disappear since its this weird combination of “performance”, “delivery”, and “engagement”. Have you ever clicked on “cross-device”? When I think cross-device, I think about customer journey…how they started on mobile Facebook, then went to Adwords and clicked an ad on mobile, and then went to desktop and converted. Thats cross-device. Whatever this preset is, well, its nothing like I described above. Maybe I just have a different definition of “cross-device”. Maybe I am being way too over the top with this criticism, but its little things like this I think could help clean up the clutter in ads manager.

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I let the Eccentric talk me into going out dancing a couple of weeks ago. I don't like big loud rooms full of strangers trying to touch me, which is fundamentally what a dance club is, but I like him and I need practice, so I went. He says I do a pretty creditable job following strangers. He has no reason to be bullshitting me, so I believe him; he does generally mean what he says, although I have a policy of dialing whatever falls out of his mouth back by about 50% to account for the overflowing enthusiasm. In an absolute sense, I'm probably fine. I don't feel like a success with most people, though -- I feel laggy and uncomfortable, like I'm bluffing my way through the song and only getting away with it because I look confident and can sell whatever I'm doing as intentional. It's not so bad I won't keep at it for the practice, but it's not an experience I'd go seeking for its own sake. For the record, if I'm successfully following someone, it feels like nothing. It's not the presence of some sort of epiphanic state, it's the absence of having to think about the process. I know there's this idea of ballroom dance as a romantic, or at least heavily-romanticized, connection, but that's only true if you're dancing with someone you're already stupid in love with, in which case staying at home and doing the dishes together would get you the same thing. It's more like those cooperative jump rope games kids play. The idea is to get everyone going in the same rhythm, so that you can complete the sequence. If you're really good at it, and also good together, you get to show off. If you're bad at it, or just a really bad fit with the other players, you get your double-dutch ropes all tangled and smack the jumper in the side of the head by accident. Learning to follow is a slow slope with a sudden inflection point, like learning to read a new language. You start out piecing letters together into words and checking the dictionary after every one; then you progress to reconstructing phrases and translating those in your head; and finally the process becomes transparent, and you're absorbing the content directly without having to think about which language you're reading it in. Having to go through the translation step with most people delays things enough that I always feel like I'm scrambling to catch up. It's never absolutely perfect, but the absence of moments where my brain pops up and goes shit, what's that supposed to mean? is notable and welcome. I hate feeling like I'm wobbling all over the place, and I hate it worse when I'm pressured to pretend I don't. I was asking Ye Ballroom Instructor the other day about how to change lead in the middle of the dance, and we were having a perfectly reasonable verbal conversation about the new things while he was non-verbally directing me around the room doing the old things. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of leads I can both talk to and dance with at the same time. It just... doesn't work with anyone outside of that small group. I have the same issue with changing partners that I do with transposing music. If I've learned a piece in one key, I have learned to sing it in that key. Change the key and it's not unrecognizable, but I have to learn it as new. My notes have absolute positions in music-space, not relative; I can't just start on a different one and move three steps up, then half a step down, etc. I have to do it all over again. There is a standard basic foot pattern to ballroom dances, and I can learn those fine, but every different partner speaks a different dialect of lead. I have a basic knowledge of how it works, in the same way I have a basic knowledge of how that song went before or of how the grammar of related languages is structured. But I have to start more or less all over again with the vocabulary, and you know what? I just don't care about most people that much. It's work. It is tedious practice homework required for a grade and I also have to smile while I'm doing it. I have a hard limit on that, and it's a low one. It is, in fact, as I told Ye Ballroom Instructor when he first brought this up a year ago: My ability to  pass as a decent ballroom dancer is extremely person-specific, and it's a hundred-fold worse if I'm trying to follow instead of lead. Not only do I not know where we're going, I also don't know what the lead expects me to be able to do, beyond a sneaking suspicion that they probably want me to be much better than I am. I've no idea what my dance partners think of me, mainly because I've no idea what anyone ever thinks of me. I only pretend to read minds. (I have a deeply over-developed sense of Holmesian drama. And I'm pretty good at cold reading. Works best on strangers who don't hang around to think about it too long.) The impression I get is that they think I'm fun, mostly independent of whether I feel I'm doing well or not. People I've danced with tend to come back and ask me again and again, which at least suggests I'm not awful. It is apparently also easy/fun to cram things into my head. Both instructors tend to go, 'I need to mingle with other people at the event, but nnnnnoooooo let me just teach you this one last thing before I take off.' from Blogger https://ift.tt/2IFPhpt via IFTTT -------------------- Enjoy my writing? Consider becoming a Patron, subscribing via Kindle, or just toss a little something in my tip jar. Thanks!

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The Future of Great-Rapid 5G Net Is a multitude

“5G will connect everybody, and everything,” Tim Baxter, President of Samsung Electronics us, breathlessly advised a massive accumulating of reporters and enterprise analysts over the weekend. Baxter changed into on level at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and his job changed into to persuade the room his organization is hyped on the Destiny. “We accept as true within 5G’s promise,” he said.

                                                     5G Net 

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Nokia, which announced new telephones at the conference, was also pumped about 5G. “It’s going to help form lives for people,” Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri informed the target audience all through the business enterprise’s keynote presentation. At an occasion earlier within the day, he stated that 5G is “no longer hype however quickly to come back fact.”

Quicker wi-fi Net is on absolutely everyone’s thoughts in recent times: Final week, the FCC authorized LTE-U gadgets at the 5GHz spectrum formerly used exclusively by way of and Bluetooth devices. That means telecom agencies like Verizon and T-Cellular could have larger planes to transmit their wi-fi on. “That is a sign iwi wireless increase in wireless innovation and a huge win for wireless purchasers,” FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement. T-Cell at once announced plans to take advantage of the authorization by way of the quit of 2017. The identical day, Verizon declared that via the center of 2017 5G services might be rolled out to 11 cities.

In equity to the agencies stoking hype approximately Quicker wi-wireless Net, there is, in fact, surprising promise. telephones equipped for 5G, or maybe LTE-U will download in seconds what it takes mins to download today. Except for Faster speeds, 5G has tons lower latency so you can play competitive online multiplayer video games, and its higher performance in dense population centers approach you’re much less probable to wireless yourself with dropped calls or laggy speeds in locations like The big apple City or Chicago. The pass to Faster Cellular wi-fi wireless may also be a boon for rural groups and other in moderation populated components of The united states. Lots of those locales have presently stuck the usage of sluggish dial-up, spotty satellite, or inconsistent 4G wi-fi. In keeping with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, wi-fi Net should help with rural America’s Internet issues. It’s presently wide variety on his Digital Empowerment Schedule for enhancing carrier in rural communities, and in a post to Medium Pai said he wants to “close the Digital divide—the distance between folks that use communications services and those who do no longer.”

All of the big corporations and their leaders are saying the identical thing: The 5G Destiny is now. however to accept as true with them approach you need to neglect who’s new wireless growing the new Amazing-Rapid Net: Requirements corporations which speak in miracles and complex technology, telecoms and consumer electronic companies that live to tell the tale on hype and broken guarantees, and the now anti-client FCC. This means that that the authentic promise of First-rate-Fast Net, whether or not LTE-U or 5G, will likely come long after the offerings themselves are available.

The primary trouble is that there’s competing tech vying to deliver wireless Internet speeds within the gigabit range. You’ve got LTE-U, that’s kind of a half of degree between the 4G we experience now, and the promise of 5G in the Future. A spokesperson for CTIA, a wi-fi industry advocacy group, defined there may be a distinction among LTE-U and 5G—that LTE-U is meant to “right away enhance carrier to Americans” at the same time as contributors of CTIA “also are making an investment in the 5G era.”

Although Matt Wood of FreePress is brief to point out that LTE-U’s promise ought to back wireless re. “LTE-U will be an excellent aspect for users,” Timber informed Gizmodo. “The problem is that if and when it’s used to crowd out other unlicensed services at the spectrum.” LTE-U operates on the same spectrum as conventional and traditional has protocols in the vicinity that preserve someone router or service from overwhelming another. which is why absolutely everyone in your condominium complex or wi-fi FW wireless constructing will have their own router. “If LTE-U gets aggressive and doesn’t follow installed protocols,” Wood said, “that’s terrible.”

In the meantime, the other an awful lot-lauded tech coming to supercharge your telephones has its very own troubles. First, 5G isn’t simply described wireless yet. 5G isn’t the name of particular tech, but an abbreviation for 5th era—as within the 5th era of Cellular networks. In 2015, the next technology Mobile Networks Alliance, an EU consortium of wi-wireless providers, researchers and Cell operators, published a white paper that attempted to outline 5G. 3GPP, a worldwide Requirements enterprise, published its very own white paper in advance this month with the identical aim. The international Telecommunications Union, a corporation underneath the United Countries, and the organization who regularly establishes Requirements like 5G, only issued its draft report Closing week. but white papers and drafts, whilst full of bold declarations and hard science, aren’t reputable Standards. And In line with the identical wi-fi from the ITU, that fashionable isn’t likely to be in the region till 2020.

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As a consequence, a lot of the discussion currently around 5G stays so nebulous that talking approximately 5G is a form of like speak about the residence you intend to construct even as handiest being in the “layout it in Sims” segment. In mild of this, the news about fundamental 5G developments feels less like the Destiny of Mobile wi-wireless Internet and greater like advertising and marketing spiels. What precisely does it mean when Qualcomm proclaims a 5G ready modem and Cellular CPU Ultimate fall, or Intel pronounces a modem at CES, or Samsung publicizes a 5G-prepared Cellular CPU Remaining week and new 5G routers over the weekend? These agencies are saying a Quicker the following day and making plans to apply roads that surely don’t exist but.

Part of the hassle is that the wi-wireless Net Exceptional highway of tomorrow may be very steeply-priced. building 5G to help more than phones—to help houses and driverless automobiles and the Net of things—is going to be just as highly-priced as constructing cable has been. 5G calls for base stations and cell web sites much like 4G, but the one’s base stations, in order to cope with the masses demanded by way of All the related gadgets in houses, need to be ample because of the base stations necessary for modern domestic Net answers like Google Fiber and Verizon FIOS.

“Cellularly is reliant on having a communications community on the ground,” Phillip Berenbroick of non-income Public Knowledge told Gizmodo, “and the economics have not wi-fi.”

And even whilst the infrastructure is built, you’re nonetheless managing corporations that aren’t very patron pleasant. Despite all the carriers lately re-embracing the idea unlimited information, telecoms do now not have a good record for preserving the airwaves open. learning wireless constantly comes earlier than user revel in.

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all count on that because they run the roads that they can do whatever they need. beneath the preceding administration, the FCC become a strident supporter of consumers’ rights. It hit AT&T with one hundred million greenback wi-fi over throttling “limitless” records for users and forced T-Mobile to make clear its own throttling policy in interactions with clients.

The contemporary FCC is wi-firmly anti-law—asking customers and businesses to fend for themselves. You should be lots more cynical approximately its willingness to diminish the transgressions of telecoms, wi-first as $one hundred purchaser routers wireless themselves angling for bandwidth in opposition to multi-million dollar cell web sites inside the LTE-U area, and later as those equal consumers demand the 5G they pay for and are denied via telecoms greater worried with their backside line.

The individuals who can also one day provide everybody’s Net desperately need to govern it, and the new FCC is extra than wi-fi to let them. So don’t anticipate absolute joy to return from deregulation and breathless product bulletins. As a long way, because the tech is worried, at the moment, 5G is just any other buzzword supposed to get you to upgrade.

The brand new 4G Provides Remarkable Fast Cellular Net

Long gone are the days when Cell phones are so chunky and heavy to carry, with just a most of four-liner display, which is not even colored; and just presented call carrier, not text. Nicely, the one’s days are Long gone! due to the fact in this era, Cell telephones get better and better. The evolution of Cell phones transpired so swiftly, which makes it so tough wireless to think that before, one would nevertheless bear with the notably big and heavy body of a cellular smartphone compared to modern almost as little as a compact powder sized phone. Certainly, with the improve of these phones, comes also the introduction of greater elaborate applications and offerings together with wi-wireless Cellular Net get entry to, gaming, video streaming, and so much greater.

Speaking of wi-fi Cell Net, That is wherein the so-called wi-fi telephone own family got here from, and all of them confer with Mobile Requirements. Heard approximately 3G? Nicely “G” simply stands for “era”, and sure – 3G owes its life from its grandfather, 1G and its dad and mom, 2G. A Cellular widespread, or technology is known as According to the offerings that it offers as complying to the spec wireless set for through the international Telecommunication Union. wi-wireless Cell Requirements have a protracted history, but with the introduction of 3G, it has revolutionized services into a whole new degree. And pretty, a brand new addition to the family is coming out – the fourth generation or 4G.

What is 4G?

additionally termed as the fourth generation or beyond 3G, the 4G is a new trendy of broadband Mobile communications that are expected to overthrow its already fantastic 3G predecessor. Despite the fact that Mobile Requirements authorities have no longer but settled upon what 4G would be, it’s miles expected to offer customers with cable modem transmission speeds that can help streaming video. In other words, it is Terriwiwireless Rapid Mobile Net.

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Even though 4G generation is still in its idea, agencies which might be pursuing its release seem to make 4G the brand new revolution in wi-fi wireless Cellular verbal exchange Requirements promising a better statistics price and broader bandwidth capability. The agencies running in this venture are targeting a high facts fee of 100 Mbps, a perfect connectivity that lets in customers to do international roaming in a couple of networks, and of direction, an Exceptional Rapid Cell Internet in an effort to help multimedia.

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