Wingman's Hangar ep030 . July 19, 2013

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   hey everybody Welcome Back wingman's hanger episode 30 taking off now if you're kind of new to the show we kind of give you a little bit insight into what goes on here at Cloud Imperium games while we're making the upand cominging beautifully anticipated Star Citizen so get ready for the action we're going to give you all the inside scoop and skinny uh coming up today we got the weekend review we got F Forum feedback with your videos on our own Rob Irving lead designer answering questions we have wide world news which is tidbits from The World At Large pertaining to space and we have an interview with Justin Benford Justin is our QA senior QA manager he's got a lot a big task coming up here as we move forward and towards our first release which I know everybody's really looking forward to uh so we'll start with a weekend review

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   what happened well uh I went up to check on the uh team in Montreal the growing team in Montreal I be Behavior Uh with Ron lejoy our product manager our our schedule project manager project scheduler manager schedule you know sort of producer uh and Pete Mackey also a designer to talk about sandboxing a certain economy system so that we can get it just right so we're up there all week or three week three or four days this week and had a great time we're going to grow the team up there we're we're giving them some uh marching orders thanks to you guys we're actually able to grow the team a little faster because we had an amazing month last month and it's all thanks to you and and by the way there's a bunch of new people watching so this Show's a little wacky a little crazy but you know if we we take your feedback we'd like to hear what you want to do and and we respond uh we also have Gamescom this week sy's busy

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   planning the Gamescom event uh in Germany coming up August 24th we've we're getting the logistics down there's a lot of things we want to do and we're finding out you know what exactly we can and cannot do so that we bring the best event for you guys um there'll be a thousand people coming to visit and play and hang out with Chris myself Mike Morin Rob Irving Travis day Ben lisnic it'll just be a lot of good people hanging out and rubbing elbows and talking everything Star Citizen it's kind of like dare we say it the very first citizen con so it's you know that might be coming up at some point too uh let's talk a little bit about my weight I started out at lbs yes last week after much machinations and

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   and vacation I had gotten down to 214 yeah that was pretty proud of that because I'd actually gained quite a bit during the vacation so where am I this week after going to Montreal and eating that beautiful food I am at yeah I maintained right 214 that's not bad I'm right where I want to be uh still not gaining weight but you know got to lose a few more inches I think I'd like to be gaunt by the time we get to gamescon chances of that 20% so we've got big things coming up we've got a hanger list what else are we doing this week we're we're finalizing what's going to be in the hanger what kind of items you're going to get you know to be able to bling up your hanger what kind of things will be able to attach to your ship stuff like that you know we because everything we we've

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   designed it all but now we have to get the artwork the concept the art done everything going so we're working really hard on this right now and there was another thing that happened this week James Lance Armstrong came in to visit us and he's got to be one of our favorite people take a look why hey everybody guess what we're back and and somebody brought us gift so tell us who you are uh James Armstrong James and he goes by what on the forums Lance Lance and Lance is by the way one of our favorite people he's you're you sent us you sent us some booze before we bit and now you brought us barbecue barbecue a little bit of barbecue K's Barbe a lot of bit of barbecue and also some more boo which which you know goes over very

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   well here so I I thank you very much now where where you what are you where are you at and um where are you located I work in uh New York New York so you're down here for to see this yeah down here to see you guys down here to see the program and the amazing work you guys are doing sne PE at the well it is and we'll sneak peeks at the map all well thanks for bringing all this and uh you know thank you very much you're very welcome what we say guys thank you all right well look who's here Tada wasn't that cool by the way of Lance to bring us that was yummy and K's barbecue and Boo and he was great and we ended up having sort of a mini fan kind of thing at Buffalo Billiards it was a blast yeah little little random happy hour really really good time there um so if Rob's here you know what time that is time for

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   feedback is't that pretty cool scary dis voice the voice of God coming out well that would actually be CHR Robert's voice but we're that's a totally different voice here okay so let's just get right to it right we got some good questions this week to answer from might life he says when may we get an official list of the remaining stretch goals along with parts of the game to be released revealed H stretch goals stretch goals stretch goals fascinated by Stretch goals so the the plan is every time we we uh reach a new million Mark we reveal we make sure we've revealed the next two right we reveal so when you get to whatever 15 million be next we maybe reveal the 17 million one right so that's that's how we're that's how we're doing this um and so you're just gonna have to wait yeah I mean patience patience or they don't they can get to

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   the million quicker and then just put it right up there right from from Bradford gray that he says will there be more origin ships offered before November 26th well if we're talking about the M50 M50 is an origin ship that's an origin ship yep that'll be uh we're working on that now I believe we are it's it's a very spiffy little ship it is it's pretty cool so yes yes I other origin ships probably not any probably not probably not before November 26th but there will be others I mean they're a manufacturer you know they're working hard and now we have a video question from awesome ad take a look at this hey wingman awesome ad here again with greetings from the wet coast of Canada my question has to do with the weather when landing at the various planetary locations throughout the Star

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   Citizen unit universe will each location have variable weather or will it rain perpetually in Star citizens equivalent of new Detroit is sure hope those weather reports in the future are accurate enough to tell whether I need to grab my umbrella on my jog from my ship to the Arms Dealer man it's gorgeous up there I want I want to go on vacation can I take some time off was no not at all but that was a really really cool uh cool video and he's got a two-parter question so we broke him up into two so weather are we going to have some weather and of course we're going to have weather you've seen Pete Mackey the weather wizard it's about time I think Pete's about healed up he may need to make a a weather appearance coming up here yeah all right cool so from Z Mustang he says are there any plans for interaction between Squadron 42 and the persistant Universe of Star Citizen I I think something

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    along the lines of a credit bonus for successfully completing your tour of Duty don't suck don't suck um yeah well yeah there there will definitely be some kind of monetary reward if you survive five and uh there's also you'll you'll carry over some of your reputation if you earn that during the game and then there you may have the option to continue service with the military in like a call up fashion they call you up when they right you're in the reserves right there's some campaign the campaigns that pop up here and there and they need reserves that we you know we may call all hands on deck and see if you you know you choose in the universe whether you want to go earn it's it' just be kind of like um a mission pack right yeah yeah and you might get like medals and stuff you can see in your head that's right bling everybody needs bling baby all right cool that's a good question and it's it's fun and not some

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    of these questions you guys might see that at times we'll be answering questions that have been maybe brought up before but remember we have a lot of lot of new people here over 30,000 since just June alone that have joined and thank you guys very much you're for the ride welcome exactly so here's another one of our good contributors Hearts blade hey wingman Hearts Spate here during the 24-hour live stream it was revealed that there will be three separate tiers for the hanger mod ual when it's released in August and that players will receive their hanger tier based on their pledge level can you tell us if the pledge level is based on pledge package or total dollars spent and what pledge level or dollar amount determines which hanger a player receives another cool video huh so how do we know what size hanger they get well it's it's a little complicated there's a lot of code involved but basically think of it in terms of the

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    bigger your ship the Nic your hanger right so so there's not really a level of a monetary besides that it's really a you know infiction number of ships size of ship kind of deal M yeah I mean if you have 500 aora you're not going to be a little cheep hanger 500 Aur well you could you could just like see forever you know Aurora it'd be Aurora mall Aurora paloa Aurora paloa would go on forever so if you're that guy I'm looking at you Simon then you know I think he had 59 at last count or something had a lot anyway you know you so the hanger is determined by the ships that you have yes cool all right from filer he says will the developers have their own avatar in game wingman posing as the Uber Galactic president of MC awesome

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    Corporation perhaps MCL Corporation I wonder how that would look hey this is a wi no the newly elected pressent of the big awesome Corporation I just want to say thank you for that and and we're all shipping every hanger and that that guy looks presidential I think I'm happy I bet that guy's happy he's been elected president of the MC awesome Corporation oh yeah all right from c c well I can't say Mixel Mixel just maked red will there be limitations on the NPC crew drop in mechanic as Chris described it you can drop in at a whim it sounds like players would exploit

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    this mechanic for advantages in the game what are your thoughts on how to prevent this type of behavior in Star Citizen oh I think he meant PC not NPC cuz you don't draw B NPCs yeah NP you're not going to like all of a sudden be somewhere and go and maybe maybe that's a misunderstanding on in the question maybe he really does mean NPCs and think that you know You' be attacked and go oh MPC alert MPC alert and like drop them all in push the easy button right I mean the point the point is it's it's meant to um to allow your friends to to socialize and be part of the experience with you we're not going to give you some kind of crazy Advantage for doing that it's like you hop in to help them out then you go back to where you were right and you're not going to so so you're not going to be able to like jump in and then you know you're halfway across the Galaxy and then jump in and all a sudden you're that side the Galaxy and then you whistle and your ship appears next door and you hop in no like Trigger or something the hor or Shadow

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    facts shadow shadow that's a much better geek I totally I agree okay back to awesome ad this is part two of his question also a secondary question considering star C will require many thousands of hours of computing time to make it reality and considering that terraforming other planets really isn't a valid option for mankind for another 120 years yet what efforts is cloud Imperium making to minimize the environmental impacts of this amazing game well first of all start system so far in the future that it's all been solved but as far as us being green we have a green screen we're trying to be paperless Eric's eating less yeah true true I'm I'm thanks for that I think from from

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    Med Divine will there be friendly fire can you shoot your friends down because then I don't have to look when I'm firing on well gee isn't that a good idea to look when you're firing anyway yeah I think that's important so will there be friendly fire uh yeah so uh you can actually shoot your friend down on AC or do damage so pay attention you know old Michael Morin sorry could happen a lot oh that was a story oh my God what game was that that he would yell he was always yelling sorry for shooting his own teammates down I remember that was the old Studio sorry every lunch from from Jaden cell he says will it be possible to have our Pilot's call signs visible on the hull of our ships much in the same way that modern fighter

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    pilots have theirs just under the cockpit of their planes well what do you think we'd love to do that I mean ship names pilot names it would be neat we'll we'll have to check out the impact of it and see how possible it is yeah because we're pushing a lot of polygons textures and stuff across there and it could be a situation where and we don't know we'll we'll have to do this in test everything where where you get to see it or maybe just your group of friends sees it or you yeah doing it for yourself might work might be the answer so we'll see we'll test that out and the beauty is they're going to get a chance to test it with us right so you know during the dog fighting app play around with all that kind of stuff from lith vodan since I'm a big fan of senior microfono can you please send me a senior microfono autograph are there plans to add them to the shop I would be most pleased to provide my signature to

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    my fans be sure to visit my fans site at Senor mofo. C and look for me in the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine espanol you didn't tell me that thing could talk yeah I didn't know it could e it's a little creepy isn't it bad bad microphone bad from efim ten Houser will we be able to interact with Interstellar bodies example flying too close to a star's Corona or fighting in the upper atmosphere of a planet or will there be some kind of automated warning that we're getting too close followed by a force autopilot away gosh that would be neat but it's very unlikely we're going to be able to do anything of that nature it's just too expensive um I I think that mostly it we just going keep safe distance right not too expensive explain that that means it's a lot of processing I mean making a planet look good up

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    close it's it's a lot of work huge amount of textures and things of that nature you know it's not saying they won't happen day one uh I know we have talked about atmosphere stuff later but you well we are saying it won't happen day one it won't happen day one so you're probably how are we going to handle that we'll probably keep them away from a certain it just probably be a bounding Zone around it where it just you know warns you of a planetary collision you have to request landing to get down with exactly it's it's probably be handled a lot like freelancer handled it you know look to the past to see how Chris Roberts did things give you Clues from exactly from malara will it be possible to access and fly any ship we have on our hanger from any Planet starport hanger or must be return to the last place the ship was docked in order to fly it away yeah we just we're talking about that whistling in your ship shows up yeah no um your ship is where you left it so if you need to get

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    back to it you just you have to find your way back and there will be like taxis and stuff you can get back to your hanger if you're in the wrong place yeah space taxis so yeah you need you can't you can't just expect things to show up and be there you you you know it's a real living breathing World we're trying to create here or universe so you could have a couple of hangers dotted across the Galaxy ships in every Shang I mean our good friend Simon's probably going to have ships in every system and Lance too for that matter good point I know it so listen let's uh we're going to end the show with some with Forum feedback with a couple of our old vets kin Shadow take it away wingman K Shadow again I come to you this week with a um kind of bigger question than my past questions this is a um a community affecting question that um lots of threads have been posted about and uh I'm a little

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    Disturbed to buy so I um I'm going to go ahead and come out and ask you here on wingman's hanger and and maybe we can get to the bottom of this for everyone in the community it's a little hard to vocalize so I'm just going to go ahead and ask it straight up how does legante eat with that gas mask on I mean the guy never takes the damn thing off I mean it's got to be really nasty in there or something I I it's really bothering me so could you could you ping him for me maybe ask thanks H I wonder how legante does [Music] eat I'm not all

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    right blueberry he looks a little hungry to me and now it's time for wide world news while PayPal is already the

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    preferred method of payment across Mother Earth could she soon be the preferred method of payment in space as Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to deliver commercial space flight to anyone who can afford it PayPal president David Marcus announced PayPal Galactic its play to become the way to pay in space space tourism is opening up to all of us in the next decade or so and we want to make sure that PayPal is the preferred way to pay from space and in space PayPal Galactic will tackle the challenges of interplanetary Commerce such as keeping customer is connected to their accounts when they're hundreds of kilometers away from their home planet I think that if we in fact are successful at finding ways to work and play in space we're going to want to be there

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    too you and me and inevitably it's going to need some kind of monetary currency by partnering with groups such as search for extraterrestrial intelligence or seti PayPal Galactic helps to solve some of the problems of getting our money into space and now is time for a look back in this week in space July 20th 1969 and the Apollo 11 lunar module calline Eagle separates from the Columbia Command Module lunar module pilot Edwin Buzz aldman Jr begins The Descent to the lunar surface while Mission Commander Neil Armstrong surveys the landmarks 5 minutes into the Descent and the Eagle flight computer issues an unexpected alarm Roger 121 alarm 121 alarm it is falling behind realtime

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    calculation of their flight path a quick review of the system at Mission Control in Houston we're go fight okay we're go we're go and the lunar module crew are given the go-ahead to continue their descent but other problems are looming Armstrong survey of lunar landmarks reveals they are 4 seconds ahead of their planned flight path and will overshoot their planned Landing Point even worse their new Landing Target is strewn with large Boulders and the lunar module is running low on fuel Armstrong takes control of the flight controls as Aldren calls out altitude and velocity data with fuel running critically low and a safe landing sight hundreds of meters away the astronauts tease the lunar module towards a safe touchdown contact light okay engine stop and with only 25 seconds of fuel remaining the eagles's foot paths touch the lunar surface we copy it down Eagle after completing the post Landing checklist

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    Armstrong declares uh Tranquility base here the eagle has landed and for the first time in human history mankind visits another Celestial body in space and that is your wide world news and now our own Sandy Gardner talks with this week's guest Justin bford hi everybody I am here with Justin Binford he works in customer service and QA hey Justin hi can you tell us a little bit about where your background

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    oh uh I started working in customer service in the game industry uh at uh blizzard and I was there for about four years and um after that I went over to uh Richard garet's company portalarium and I did a QA there for uh a poker application they were doing as well as another game they had called collector and what about Christ Robert's heard of him before oh yeah definitely uh when I was younger I played uh strike Commander a lot and uh Pacific strike as well as uh some of the wing commander games but I really got into the Privateer games because I really love the uh open world and trading and exploring and uh yeah so i' I'm a huge uh space combat fan and so I'm super excited about this this new game and and I love uh yeah I love uh

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    PCS and building PCS I'm excited about how the the ship upgrades work and how it's uh kind of parallel to building your own PC so I'm really excited about that too awesome maybe you can help me because I'm determined to have a faster PC than Chris Roberts okay yeah so uh and so I guess with all these you like open world and trading star citizens like right up your alley uhhuh yeah I love sandbox games so where you can just uh have it an open world where you don't have a like a a necessary path or you can just do what whatever you want and I definitely like to build my own story I like games that are sandbox games like uh such as uh Daisy where you can just uh walk around and just uh I've heard about Daisy that's pretty hardcore some it's just so immersive that people uh

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    they just they just go with it and uh create all these YouTube videos and then these really uh Vivid stories that that they write about their experience in the game and I think that's amazing and I think that star czen is going to have a lot of that too looks like Justin needs a hanger full of ships thanks everybody and look he's right here like I don't say that every week hey Justin how you doing hey pretty good how are you good good good so you've been with us you started on contract a few months ago and now you're full-time MH here on Star Citizen how are you liking it so far I like it a lot yeah this is a great team to be a part of and I'm really excited about the game too yeah the game looks pretty good so I understand that you have aspirations of actually being a real pilot yeah definitely I've always

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    wanted to uh be a helicopter pilot and I've always liked helicopters and uh my girlfriend at the time got me a uh for a Christmas she uh got me a ride on a real helicopter how was that and it was the first time we ever done that it was amazing cool it was down by Houston and uh yeah it was just this uh really great experience and ever since then it definitely solid ified my goal to want to be an actual pilot have you taken lessons yet or no I haven't quite taken lessons just mostly just messed around with simulators and whatnot cool well maybe there'll be some sort of hovercraft or something we could we could tool around in SAR not saying it's going to happen so um I understand you also like poker oh yeah definitely uh it kind of runs in the family so uh but I uh I definitely like to play poker on

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    occasion uh there's like a fantasy poker League here in town that has like a point system on their website so uh we do some uh it's h they actually host it in some bars around town and uh we uh definitely have fun doing that and I can check the website and we can uh check our our where your standings yeah our standings and stuff it's really cool where where are you top of the leaderboard or not really because of my work I can't really do it as much as some people but I'm definitely up there well why does it always come down to bars with this team I I don't yeah and I understand you're a you're a big fan of space in general I mean just just the universe MH yeah definitely I'm always following NASA and what they're doing especially these uh these companies doing commercial space Ventures such as uh SpaceX Elon Musk is uh an amazing individual and uh recently

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    I saw their video of their 10 story uh tall vertical takeoff vertical Landing vehicle called grasshopper and it was just it it gave me chills that's awesome it's coming I mean what you know that that's kind of the fun part is what we're doing seems to be you know an extension of what's actually happening in the real world now um and sci-fi shows man I understand you like sci-fi yeah um my I guess my favorite would be cowboy bbop and I also like Firefly yeah you do and Battle Star Galactica and one year for Halloween I even dressed up as uh Edward from Cowboy bbot really yeah now that's an obscure show I mean the people that are hardcore know that but like you uh but Fire firefly is my favorite you're riding my oh incredible incredible should not have canceled it

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    Fox shouldn't have done it Jos Weeden shouldn't have done it just boy bang Nathan Philly and sure it would be nice to have him on it as one of our voices wouldn't it yeah definitely just bang his Twitter um so and you're also zombie movies zombie movies yeah I like zombie movies games and shows I guess my favorite zombie movie would be uh Dawn of the Dead 2004 2004 yeah it's a i really like Fast zombies but uh you think that you get a time to nap put a campfire up with the slow zombies how are they ever getting caught right it kind of messes with your suspension disbelief because everybody has to be a perfect shot but uh it's definitely my favorite it I just wish they didn't have that zombie baby scene fair enough fair enough you know I've got my favorite zombie movie is um Shawn of the dead that's definitely a good one

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    it was unexpected I knew nothing about it and we went to see it one day one of our lead programmers and no it's just we laughed really hard yeah I love that one too now we got a big release coming up here uh in the next month or so the hanger release and and that's going to significantly change a lot of what you were doing around here oh yeah definitely I'll be focusing on testing mostly we uh we're developing a working relationship with a very professional QA uh operation and uh they're going to it's going to be really lucky for us to leverage their resources for our compatibility testing so we can uh identify any hardware conflicts or and also um nail down exactly what our minimum specifications will be right and we're going to be using some of the fans out there to help us test in some regards too like we did with the website yeah definitely because you know without them there's not us and that's how we

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    are here yeah the community has been incredibly helpful with that especially and so you'll be the one probably liaoning with all of them too yeah I'll be the point of contact for all that and trying to work do you want you want to borrow my cot yeah sure you'll probably be here quite a bit cool well thank you very much for join us I want want to thank Rob Irving and The J Man here for joining us uh a big thanks always to subscribers and plers without you guys we would not be able to do this show there be no Star Citizen it's just amazing we are totally uh we feel totally lucky that we are able to do stuff like this and and uh we have you guys to thank for it uh coming up this week uh it's getting close to maybe hanger crunching I mean we've got some stuff to do to get stuff ready for the big event gamescon um and please subscribe to the YouTube Channel if you want to find out whenever we post

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    anything other than just Hangar episodes we have a lot of inside cig reports we have things that get the economy updates things like anything big we do which you might miss on the com link you can always get if you're subscribed to the YouTube channel it will alert you and you can you can see the big stuff that's going on don't forget the after show wingman's hangover 15 minutes after the show uh we'll talk in uh the chat Channel we'll we'll give each other a little feedback you can tell us what you likeed what you didn't like and what you think we can do better because honestly that's very very important to us in all aspects and what we can do better that's why we're doing this together not just the show but the game itself what can we do better it'll only get better with input from you guys remember if you watch your stuff featured on wingman's Hangar send it in we just might use it where are we going to see him in the in the verse the formal parties like this are really

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    enjoyable when one isn't afraid of doing the wrong thing object of correct etiquette is not to make life formal and dull but to make it fully enjoyable there are reasons for each Act of etiquette as in a man's assisting a lady with her chair or the order with which people are the young man who is trying to assist Betty with her chair is Bob uhoh there is no denying that Bob needs help which serving Implement should he use what do you think is he wrong or is he right Betty hopes that she doesn't look as awkward as she feels all is well again with a party no one's enjoyment is being interrupted with any problems for the moment as the relish dish is passed

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    Betty decides that the first thing for her to do is to regain her Poise just act as though no errors had been made Bob is swinging from one extreme to another one minute he is uneasy the next overconfident Bob doing at least three things wrong but naturally the guests give no indication of having noticed any erir on Bob's part since that in itself would be impolite but if you were in Bob's place would you know positively what to do Betty is worried for Bob but after all he is trying everyone learns by experience

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    even when mistakes are made Bob still isn't sure of what to do but he can't hesitate forever now he is forgetting even his company manners and is acting as he usually does here is the kind of fun that the all thought of when the party was planned of having a good meal together and plainly enjoying one another's company the errors that have been made haven't taken the fun out of the party and we must remember to give them credit for all the things that have been done correctly for every mistake made a dozen things have been done correctly Bob is feeling more confident of himself he and Betty have a lot to learn as we are seeing people like Betty and Bob forget that poor manners can really interfere with the fun of the

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    party there is no fun in being worried unsure or ill at ease Betty is thinking that perhaps she and Bob both need to be embarrassed a bit to make them admit that Their Manners aren't as good as they should be Bob may be thinking the same thing because he certainly looks as if he has decided to make a lot of changes as you think of Betty and Bob and their problems compare your own manners don't forget that it is By Their Manners that polite people the world around show their consideration for one another a good meal good company real enjoyment that's what a dinner party is [Applause]