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Topic: Shin Reading Thread Gaiden |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:12 pm Subject: Shin Reading Thread Gaiden |
I read that on a beautiful morning in the south of Rome after waking up on the couch of a gay American studies professor. It's my favorite work of Auster's. |
Topic: KAREER IN KOREA (clever name huh) |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 34
Views: 29962
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:30 pm Subject: KAREER IN KOREA (clever name huh) |
ㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱ gOD DAMN these fucking keyboards
having fun? |
Topic: Secret of Evermore is uh... |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 24
Views: 25405
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:31 am Subject: Secret of Evermore is uh... |
mystic quest was the first RPG i ever played, in the second grade; i consider myself pretty fortunate on that count. really fucking good block puzzles, iirc.
tim rogers always liked to say of SoE t ... |
Topic: Moretress! (Actually we didn't play, but we could have!) |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 18
Views: 12992
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:49 pm Subject: Moretress! (Actually we didn't play, but we could have!) |
i don't think i've played TF2 since it was actually released as non-beta.
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Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:42 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
gonna be a total asshole here, wes:
1) no more heroes is about as much "an ubisoft game" as is lumines
2) definitely. like definite. only definite-ly. this typo is infuriating. |
Topic: Gradius question |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 3
Views: 5627
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:43 am Subject: Gradius question |
I suppose the translator or whoever picked the wrong word and it stuck? |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
Views: 3080577
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:10 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
fuck off; so aren't the majority of ueda/miyazaki works (heteronormative, that is) because this is a means of working with established storytelling conventions. it's not trying to offend you. |
Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 137
Views: 168805
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:59 pm Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
Lucas can KO at something like 70-80% with his standing up-smash, recover from nearly any situation and deal fairly ridiculous damage with his enormously improved PK Thunder (and rope snake!), actuall ... |
Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 137
Views: 168805
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:39 pm Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
really? i'm, i think, 39% through, and the boss fights have just seemed so.. sloppy so far. like, i can tell they've got patterns, but the floatiness of the controls doesn't really help me with reacti ... |
Topic: Mother 3 excitement thread / General MOTHER discussion |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 40
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:43 pm Subject: Mother 3 excitement thread / General MOTHER discussion |
I own the MOTHER 3 SUPER BOXSET WILLENIUM EDITION, but I don't want to play the game until a real translation is out. I refuse to play it with a translation guide!
I should really finish earthbound ... |
Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 137
Views: 168805
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:30 pm Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night... |
so far, i'm a little bored.
then again, i hadn't even planned on buying it; i just didn't have anything to do today (already cleaned the house and read rubin on murakami cover to cover this weekend ... |
Topic: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?) |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 1215
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:32 pm Subject: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?) |
i can 1cc metal slug too and i'm by and large not very good at videogames.
(other games i can 1cc: NES contra, 3/5 of ikaruga, gradius v until the stage 5 boss...) |
Topic: Audio Surf is one of the greates things ever made |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 70
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:41 pm Subject: Audio Surf is one of the greates things ever made |
Is there, or will there be, any way to just, you know, buy this game? I don't have Steam and I don't want Steam.
abandon your materialist ways
you can buy the game for $9.95. some of us have. |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:31 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
i enjoyed rocket slime, though i definitely felt as though the game peaked around the middle. |
Topic: videogame school |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 209
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:29 pm Subject: videogame school |
i'm a student with a bullshit IT job! |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:57 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
right, that's why it's (all the more strangely) appropriate that full price is $30. |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:41 am Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
But what about all those Nintendo titles?
the only one to date that hasn't been considerably underwhelming is warioware, and that.. needs to be cheaper. it does. |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:08 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
ghost squad is really remarkably decent, if my time in kentucky is to be any indication.
like, between it and kororinpa, the wii has almost actually started to define itself as a platform. i don't ... |
Topic: the wii transfer |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:31 am Subject: the wii transfer |
this may be out of line, but i find it profoundly profound that one of a handful of forums i frequent has as one of its most distinguished members a person who knows more about bdsm paraphernalia than ... |
Topic: TGQ Best of 200000.......000007 |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 178
Views: 98440
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:59 pm Subject: TGQ Best of 200000.......000007 |
1. portal
2. knytt stories
3. kororinpa
4. civilization: beyond the sword |
Topic: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17. |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 76
Views: 41825
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:39 pm Subject: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17. |
just got back from work, making a bowl of chili, nobody is around, and i wish you guys were playing on PC that much more =( |
Topic: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17. |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 76
Views: 41825
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:52 am Subject: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17. |
fie on your "proper" pc team fortress experience. we're playing team fortress 2 on the xbox monday night. be there or be one of those angry internet nerds who gets in arguments on message boards about ... |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
Views: 3080577
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:07 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
i just want the happiness back
this game better get fucking happy because if this is some kind of analogy about adulthood being miserable well id ont need any more of that
it hardly is, don't wo ... |
Topic: Braying and Naying about Select Button Within |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 82
Views: 53094
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Forum: Quarterly Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:30 am Subject: Braying and Naying about Select Button Within |
it's probably just time and place considerations but i really like SB more than any other iteration of forums this "circle" runs in.
i don't know- certain personalities are definitely aligned with ... |
Topic: tell me about ds homebrew |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 95
Views: 79011
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:17 pm Subject: tell me about ds homebrew |
d'oh. sorry i didn't see this earlier.
what's happening sounds like it can't actually see the files other than the .nds.. i know the DLDI version of dscrawl was hacked after the fact; you're using ... |
Topic: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters. |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 38
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:55 am Subject: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters. |
play gradius v before you play any other other gradius game. seriously.
blazing star is pretty accessible.
EDIT re below post: delta is very enjoyable and accessible too.
i know you specifica ... |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:26 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
no, you just happened to pick the worst one.
game starts out comparatively pretty okay, though.. |
Topic: Mario Galaxy Quest |
Ethoscapade
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Views: 34040
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:16 pm Subject: Mario Galaxy Quest |
Unless the self-satire is so subtle that I've completely missed it.
play paper mario and you'll want to believe it's there that much more?
(i have unqualified affection for thousand year door th ... |
Topic: Key Mapping |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 8
Views: 7253
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:03 pm Subject: Key Mapping |
joytokey, baby. |
Topic: Mass Effect looks like shit |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 103
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:33 am Subject: Mass Effect looks like shit |
guys, are you kidding? faithless doesn't work for bioware, she writes for play and does some standup comedy.
is there really that much ill will towards SB here? |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 4229
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:21 am Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
dess - i played the king of swing at a time when, if i recall correctly, i was just beginning some sort of horrible subconscious quest for evidence of nintendo's new(?) horrid design philosophy (which ... |
Topic: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon? |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 84
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:02 am Subject: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon? |
judging from the choices available, i'm pretty sure they just took whatever was available to you in that mystery dungeon game.
which, yeah, was convinced that everybody on the planet was a mudkip. |
Topic: tell me about ds homebrew |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 95
Views: 79011
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:40 am Subject: tell me about ds homebrew |
i don't know what it says that everything you listed just there is a port/remake of another title (much like the DS' retail software catalog, eh?), but IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO GBA as well, you'd do well ... |
Topic: Two Bestsellers & Two Capcom Games |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 32
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:53 pm Subject: Two Bestsellers & Two Capcom Games |
dess that's extraordinarily disappointing about the hub world |
Topic: Super Metroid's control scheme |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 22
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:51 am Subject: Super Metroid's control scheme |
balance. |
Topic: The lowdown on Wii procurement (a cheap plea) |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:35 am Subject: The lowdown on Wii procurement (a cheap plea) |
i sold mine, unboxed, complete, from launch, on ebay for exactly what it'd cost plus the value of the points thus far spent ($50), a month or so ago.
for what that's worth. |
Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 977
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:12 pm Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread |
Sorry, huh? I'm not getting the connection here.
as in, you leave an SD card in the wii at all times, it automatically archives anything you haven't played in ~2 weeks to said SD card, yet leaves t ... |
Topic: the very thorough crawl thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 317
Views: 522113
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:59 pm Subject: the very thorough crawl thread |
centaurs have pretty terrible dex; the main incentive to use them for hunters is because they can move so quickly.
we call that balancing =(
but yeah, i've never had much luck, either. centaur c ... |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:39 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
dess, i am amazed that you had not played canvas curse before now.
i actually hundred-percented that game, and, well.. that roughly quadruples the time investment on that one. |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:52 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
the only bad kirby games are the dreamland games.
the only kirby games that aren't among the absolute BEST on their respective platforms are the dreamland games.
***this includes kirby 64 |
Topic: The Witcher, important PC RPG itt |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:43 am Subject: The Witcher, important PC RPG itt |
for some reason i'm actually curious about this, even though between orange box and mother 3 a couple of weeks ago i honestly thought i finished any and all gaming for a good while. also i hardly have ... |
Topic: the very thorough crawl thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 317
Views: 522113
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:38 am Subject: the very thorough crawl thread |
works in parallels, by the by. and parallels is dramatically less - heavy(?) - than you might think, provided you configure it to run on 192mB of ram or so (out of hopefully a gig or more) with a comp ... |
Topic: i've got my spine i've got my orange box |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 259
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:58 am Subject: i've got my spine i've got my orange box |
I have a hard time believing more than $20 for HL2 proper or more than $20 for Ep2, but hey, the point stands. |
Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
Ethoscapade
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:27 pm Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread |
This is just a quick heads up, I didn't know where else to post this, but today I found a boxed copy of Darwinia for four bucks brand new at a local Big Lots. It might be worth checking out for peopl ... |
Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 977
Views: 799149
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:04 am Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread |
daph, the only reason those games are so huge is because they all had CDDA - if they put it in mp3, then they're suddenly n64-game sized. |
Topic: Squad-based multiplayer games |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 66
Views: 34663
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:23 pm Subject: Squad-based multiplayer games |
i played counterstrike for an hour once.
i ascertained that what makes it good is the fact that you do not respawn. it's "round" based; your whole team starts in one area, you go meet the other tea ... |
Topic: Everyday Shooter is beautiful. |
Ethoscapade
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Views: 14930
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:30 pm Subject: Everyday Shooter is beautiful. |
okay there's officially a ps3 game that i am jealous of not being able to play |
Topic: Third Party Brawlers |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 19
Views: 15214
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:49 pm Subject: Third Party Brawlers |
goemon would be fabulous, actually. |
Topic: Third Party Brawlers |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 19
Views: 15214
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:36 pm Subject: Third Party Brawlers |
bomberman, honestly, is the only one other than an anthropormorphized pac-man i can see fitting in at this point.
although, y'know, snake. |
Topic: Squad-based multiplayer games |
Ethoscapade
Replies: 66
Views: 34663
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Forum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:03 pm Subject: Squad-based multiplayer games |
worms can be co-op; when setting up a multiplayer game, you assign each player's team a different color, and if you assign two people the same colors (exactly like smash bros., now that i think of it) ... |
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