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 No.122265[Reply]

Does /qa/ have any favorite cartoons? I've never really stopped to think about this since I always despised /co/ as a board and they never discussed any of the cool European comics I was into. So, as usual, I thought of some stuff off the top of my head and made a 3x3 based on it. I think it's pretty obvious that I was an MTV/Cartoon Network kid if you look at my picks. MTV used to be a pretty cool channel and had a lot of cartoons that were aimed at the teen demographic that is so common in anime/manga. I also watched a lot of dubbed anime on CN back then. Avatar would probably be in this since everyone sucks it off so much and lauds it as the best cartoon ever, but I've never finished. I thought it was kinda boring back then and it did not help that Nickelodeon was already declining in quality during the time it aired.

By the way, did you know that there were two new seasons of Beavis and Butthead released in 2022-2023? I had no idea about this until recently. I might check it out sometime.
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 No.122288

>>122287
yeah, that's a nostalgic one

 No.122290

cyberchase

 No.122333

I think I've forgotten most of this stuff. Old Simpsons of course, uhh... children's stuff from the 90s I guess? Stuff like Rupert, David the Gnome, uhh, what else was there?
I really liked the old cartoons that wrote about magic and imagination and good things happening if you just believed in yourself. Good ol' sappy stuff is inspiring and really what kids need to hear if you ask me. Maybe the David the Gnome theme itself is emblematic of this kind of feeling. (video related)
Maybe I need to think more about this, because this is really deep in my memory somewhere...

 No.122822

>>122287
I loved this show so much I became a bit obsessed with it. I'd daydream all the time about being part of the group and how things would play out if I were there. Being stuck at a boarding school but having the freedom to go wherever you wanted outside and actually doing things that mattered was so enticing to the imagination. Especially the whole conflict and interaction between the virtual world and real world, whatever happened in the virtual world had visible effects on the real world. And a lot of times they had to use guile and deception to keep a secret.

I really liked Kids Next Door too. The whole premise of kids leading double lives as spies/commandos was really fun.

There's just something so alluring about alteregos/personas. The ability to put on a mask and slip through the chains that bind. Deception, lies, trickery. Not knowing who you really are yet knowing all the same. Mutability, vague, indescript, undefined, outside the box.

 No.122841

>>122822
Same, my friends and I had a field day with CL. Rewatching some episodes recently reminded me how dark it could get for a kid's show.
Shame about the reboot.



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 No.122723[Reply]

(MASSIVE SHINSEKAI YORI SPOILERS AHEAD)

How the fuck is SSY so highly rated????? It's built on nothing but endless retardation.

What other setting have you heard of where randos suddenly getting powers led to humanity's near extinction simply because they felt like it? The entire backstory is built on first-wave rando retardation on top of a thousand years of emperor retardation on top of scientist retardation all to deal with the absolutely irredeemable walking nukes that are cantus users. Sheer stupidity from everyone involved over a near geological timeframe but what's even stupider is its incredibly abysmal take on totalitarianism.

All across the story the kids have to deal with the blatantly sinister actions of their superiors in a way that almost seems to say "hey, maybe surveillance states are bad" (NO SHIT!) but then you learn that ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, it was all justified and this is the only societal configuration that makes a shred of sense in this world, otherwise everyone would've died by now. The ending is supposed to be hopeful, but they haven't changed SHIT. FUCK ALL. It goes against everything it has built so far with how it's gone so out of its way to set up the world as stupidly grimdark and then ends with absolutely no answer to all the problems it poses. Espers still can't keep each other under full control so you need the queerrats to continue acting as an underclass of assassins, and you NEED them to be an underclass because if they're not they'll logically rise up again like they just did a few years ago, because cantus users are a cancer that'll destroy the earth itself if you don't keep them in check. So they should all commit suicide somehow, jump off a fucking cliff and let the world heal by itself.

It's all fucked up beyond repair, the rats can't undo their genetic modifications, they can't un-fuck-up their queens, the espers can't stop being nukes, but they can't kill each other either due to the feedback loop, and they can't kill the rats because they need them, nor can they undo humanity's annihilation, it's all set up to fail. It's either the status quo of an obligatory surveillance state or oblivion and this surveillance state is consistently portrayed as bad, so what is the anime trying to say? That in this extremely specific and very stupid setting it turns out totalitarianism is good? How does this apply to anything? If Saki genuinely means well, as she's consistently painted as up to Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.122761

>>122760
But why does she kill him only after finding out definitively that queerrats are modified humans? If it was only because she was personally close to Squealer his death could have happened at a much earlier date or even during the trail. Notable it's Satoru's voice that says the rhetorical question about how they don't see queerrats as human. Saki's answer to Satoru's question is killing Squealer, she sees him as human. Why position the scene otherwise? The alternative you're proposing, is that Saki answers the question about seeing queerrats as human by mercy killing her non-human friend. It's an odd response to the question.

 No.122762

>>122759
I thought I read somewhere that the mother's mean age at first birth in Japan was 29 but I could not find it again, however the mother's mean age at first birth for Australia is 28.7 for reference.

 No.122763

>>122762
Ohh and the Australian statistic was from 2014, so it's 10 years old.

 No.122765

>>122761
I'm fairly certain that was her first opportunity to do it. She's not in charge of the sentencing and the others wanted him to suffer. She had to wait until everybody was busy elsewhere and make it look like an accident. The point is that patiently going along with things gives you opportunities to make small changes that steer society towards something better.

And he's not her friend, just someone she knows well enough to have developed some level of sympathy for.

 No.122766

>>122765
>I'm fairly certain that was her first opportunity to do it.
Even if that is true, it is true by the construct of the author. The author could have chosen any number of ways to have Saki kill Squealer. The mere fact that the author chose to tell the story in this specific way reveals authorial intent behind the meaning of Saki's actions. The key here is why does Saki kill Squealer after discovering queerrats are part human? Why did the author not have Saki kill Squealer then discover queerrats are part human? Why does the author have Saki discover queerrats are human? Why does the author have Saki kill Squealer at all?
The last question can be answered by your explanation of sympathy but the other questions are answered by mere coincidence and the author felt like it. Which could be true but seems unlikely given the importance the end of a story has in laying out the "meaning".

Further reinforcing this view is the way in which the scenes played out in the show. Satoru asks Saki a rhetorical quesiton about seeing queerrats as human. Saki of course gives no verbal answer but the following scene is Saki killing Squealer. This can quite easily be seen as Saki "answering" Satoru. Again this didn't have to be the next scene or even be included in the adaptation but including it and including it in the way it was included goes to show how the director thought what the authors intent was, and of course what the director's intent is with the show and it's meaning.

>The point is that patiently going along with things gives you opportunities to make small changes that steer society towards something better.
I have no disagreement with that, but with the moral reasoning leading to a need for change being strictly a miscalculation about managing the lower classes and not about recognizing genetically modified, sentient humans as humans.



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 No.117329[Reply]

Which other websites on the World Wide Web does /qa/ use?
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 No.120803

>>117348
i love how the sign up page for cohost looks similar to one of those sign up pages you see in mid 2000 roleplaying online social games, gave me nostalgia

 No.120845

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shieeeeet

 No.121283

a common problem I have with invidious, aside from being painfully slow, is that it will randomly stop playing sound. it's nice that it exists. I just wish nsfwyoutube.com didn't randomly stop working (I can't click on any of the videos even though I can still search)

 No.122697

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>>121283
I've been using FreeTube standalone program for a long time on PC. The settings (pic related) allow you to choose an instance or use the local api that comes with it. No sign-up, local subscriptions, SponsorBlock support, and the most recent update finally allowed for the creation of custom playlists for which I've been waiting forever.
https://freetubeapp.io/

If you use an Android phone, then I suggest NewPipe. You can find it in the F-Droid catalog of FOSS/FLOSS apps (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/) or straight from their website at https://newpipe.net/.
NewPipe can play stuff from YouTube, Peertube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc.
I use both nearly every day for years as YT front-ends and while sometimes updates might take a while to restore functionality when YouTube changes something to break it, a fix always comes.

Aside from those two, there's Kavin's services which includes Piped (https://kavin.rocks/services) for seeing YT videos. If you've ever used Nitter as front-end for Twitter, or Libreddit as a Reddit front-end, then those are also from Kavin. YT links in Nitter would be redirected into Piped for viewing (though it seems Nitter is recently dying, but Piped should be okay)
>>>119436

>>117329
To answer OP's question, I'm usually helping streamer friends on Twitch and talking with them+community on Discord, and maintaining a personal website on Neocities for the purpose of learning fun (exclusively HTML/CSS).
Currently taking a multi-month break from most internet for sanity reasons, but during the self-imposed downtime I'm lurking Kissu recently and a few other boards like Sushigirl, Tohno-chan, etc. Otherwise, usually browsing Danbooru/Gelbooru, filling up hard drives with stuff from IRC or Nyaa, and catching up on various news through RSS feeds. Small-ish circle of online activity but it seems there's neverPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.122699

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I wrote pic-related and forgot to add the relevant pic once I wrote everything.



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 No.119875[Reply]

Don't think I have ever seen a mascot thread here.
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 No.122677

>>122675 >>122676
Whoa, a buddhist is one of the last that I'd expect would have a moe mascot like her. But I ain't complaining, she's cute.
I was listening to the theme song and thought "This boppin' music is giving me IOSYS vibes somehow. Who made this?" Checked description:
>Composed by: ARM
Well, that explains everything!
Eyeballing that itasha too, I love creative itasha that aren't the usual generic decals or wraps. Vans are some prime candidates for amazing creativity inside too.
I'm also curious if that figure is a garage kit or not, but I quite like it. Tempted to do more searching on her later, good stuff.

 No.122680

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>>122677
Pre-painted assembly kit apparently.
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-008036

 No.122681

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>>122680
Nice find, that gave a bunch of useful info. Thanks!

 No.122686

>>122675
>>122676
I don't see him credited, but the designs looks very Akio Watanabe.

 No.122691

>>122686
I had exactly the same thought



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 No.122678[Reply]

Where do I go to watch seasonal shows with Japanese subtitles? I want to watch YuruCamp S3 but I'm at the point in my ninhongo studies where I feel like if I'm not watching anime with JP subs I'm wasting my time. I'm also not good enough to watch with no visual aid whatsoever.

Every torrent site I've found uses subs for every language except Japanese.

 No.122679

I've mentioned it before, but OpenAI's Whisper can generate subtitles automatically, in any language, and can even translate. But, I guess if you want official subtitles it's not really an option, certainly not if you don't have a newer GPU either.

 No.122682

>>122679
I don't really know how to use that stuff. Anyway for a change I actually found some jp subs on nyaa but it was listed as eng subs.

Still, feel free to post suggestions in this thread.

 No.122683

kitsuneko collects jp closed captions. Not every show has them, but it's probably your best bet.

 No.122685

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For YuruCamp S3 in particular, the AT-X broadcast appears to contain Japanese subtitles (judging from kitsunekko and Wikipedia). However, they're out of sync with CR's web version due to the 提供クレジット and whatnot.
For other anime, TV Tokyo (TX) and Netflix (NF) may also include Japanese subtitles.
Sometimes the subtitles exist but haven't been uploaded to any public site I'm aware of, pic related. If you can't find any subtitles, you can try consulting https://anicobin.ldblog.jp/ because for the anime episodes that have a corresponding blog entry, usually almost every line is transcribed there.

>>122682
Judging from the corresponding file on kitsunekko those subtitles are poorly timed and are probably machine-generated; correct me if I'm wrong. The AT-X ones look usable.

>>122683
>kitsuneko
狐っ娘（きつねっこ）

 No.123969

kitsunekko is currently down for me but most of the Japanese subs there should be on jimaku.cc



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 No.122628[Reply]

How much should you change your appearance to match your partner's preferences?
Would you be willing to cut your hair if your girlfriend liked it better short? Get piercings? Lose weight? Gain weight? Hit the gym? Become a gyaru-oh?
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 No.122640

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What kind of question is this? You're talking about hypothetical 2D ones right? Otherwise fuck off.

 No.122641

No to piercings and gyaru-oh, don't mind changing my weight or hitting the gym more, on the fence about growing out my hair.

 No.122644

>>122640
The kind of question posed by the pictured anime. You know, that thing people who aren't too busy posing on the internet watch for fun. If your 2D girlfriend were more than hypothetical, you'd understand the question better.

 No.122645

>>122637
>reciprocity
Sounds good, but if you're doing something you don't like just because it was a deal that would create friction. I think it's a function of how attached you are to your own appearance, or parts of it, measured against how much you want to please a certain person. Depending on what it is, it could also mean going against social standards from the other people in your life, which requires a higher level of devotion, I think.

>>122630
Just because a girl looks cute with her contacts in doesn't mean you wouldn't want her to wear her glasses more, right?

 No.122647

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>>122644
That's a tough question then, because I view my relationship with her as platonic. I mean, there are people who don't? Platonic love is the only type of love that makes sense for 2D.



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 No.122517[Reply]

What is /qa/'s raison d'être?
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 No.122519

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Dunno. Stuff, I guess?

 No.122520

Man doesn't need a reason to exist, he exists and that is reason enough to live.

 No.122526

I live for the sake of accomplishing my objectives. And although there's a lot of them, it's pretty fuzzy, and I've taken a solid amount of detours along the way, I think it's going decently.

 No.122527

it's long gone now

 No.122543

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Kuon!



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 No.109450[Reply]

This says a lot about society.

 No.109452

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This says a lot about society.

 No.109453

The layers of this palace are NOT for your kind.

 No.122299

i have two sides.... most generous catpicture sharer youve ever met.... and the most tightarsed catbragger who you never want to meet

 No.122315

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Cat just uploaded 20 pages of food blogs instead of his art on twitter again.



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 No.122309[Reply]

How is this board related to /qa/(4chan)?

 No.122310

Maternally.

 No.122311

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Oh no, someone is going to be VERY upset at that thin Yuno!
I just woke up so my mind is a bit foggy and unmotivated, but the gist of things is that once upon a time /qa/ was a good board (2015) and then it became a bad board (late 2015-2016) and then through some communal cleaning, bots, the power of positive thinking and people switching from "why does 4chan suck" to "let's instead make /qa/ our version of a good 4chan" it became a good board again in early 2017 with a strange "retirement home" like atmosphere combined with chaos. It ended up with a 2D/Random (nijiura) flare because it seemed to be unifying interest of people there (/jp/-aligned people love meta it turns out). Then in 2019 it became a bad board again when mods decided to flex their muscle for the final time and went nuclear with rangebans, even against people that were merely regular posters posting stuff that simply wasn't the new type of /qa/ they envisioned.
Long story short, this is the older /qa/ that most people don't actually know about. I guess I typed more than I thought I would.

 No.122312

um erm uhhh lurk moar fag :3

 No.122314

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>>122309
This is missing the stuff that happened afterwards though. We stayed there for three more years and finally moved to kissu once the mods started going full hotpockets and deleting/banning a lot of things at random and rangebanning posters. We don't have anything to do with the soyjak spamming vultures that came afterwards and caused its closure. So it has been 4 years since we started using kissu.



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 No.117644[Reply][Last50 Posts]

The winter season is upon us. It will be difficult to match the quality of the autumn season, but hopefully there's some good stuff to watch.

https://www.livechart.me/winter-2024/tv
https://anilist.co/search/anime?year=2024&season=WINTER&format=TV
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 No.121957

>>121955
>the story
I've not found a single dungeons-appear-in-reality or tower-conquest story that had a story worth its time.
You'd probably be better off picking up a random cultivation webnovel.

 No.121958

>>121956
Anime. The comic is still a good leveling story.

 No.121960

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sigh....
Anyone that waited to watch Undead Unluck once all the episodes are out...
Well, they're out.

 No.122056

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A good quote to leave off the past 2 seasons with.

 No.122277

Sengoku really knows how to work with power levels



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 No.122221[Reply]

How do you feel about all the different versions of Miku? Does it get on your nerves if people don't stick to a general mold of the character that feels appropriate or are you fine with the artists vision being expressed through her freely? I'm more in the latter camp since I feel it fits better with vocaloids in general being for people to make their own music with, and not for people to make music for the vocaloid.
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 No.122255

>>122233
Not all programs give you Freedom 1.

 No.122256

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>>122255
What about Freedom 2?

 No.122257

>>122254
Deco said so in the release stream

 No.122258

>>122256
You need nuclear weapons for that.

 No.122260

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>>122257
This was a lie, by the way.
She's also just called Miku on the merch from his website.
Spreading misinformation isn't as fun as I thought, sorry.



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 No.122238[Reply]

Do 2d girls give you "Strength"?
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 No.122241

Yes, you wouldn't be reading this if it weren't for them.

 No.122244

I would say so. Mai waifu helped me through the times in life when I was all alone against the world.

 No.122245

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Yes.

 No.122246

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I've tried to find ways for them to give me strength but they only give gay stats like dex or int

 No.122247

>>122246
Use Int to become a wizard.
Use wizardry to make yourself strong.



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 No.103053[Reply]

https://www.gameroomcity.com/products/full-sized-3-sided-cocktail-table-arcade-game-with-1-162-classic-golden-age-midway-games-and-trackball

Gonna get one of these for the /qa/ mansion it'll be boson. What are you guys contributing?
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 No.116027

>>115510
That's gonna be a lot of dust.

 No.116028

>>116026
I hope she's strong enough to put the kimo posters in line.

 No.116029

>>116027
More than dust the main issue will be getting them all to be friends. Someone's gonna have to do the research.

 No.122176

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Seems like there are quite a few posters here who drives so a dedicated itasha parking lot might be a good idea.

 No.122177

>>122176
I'd want some vespas. Ever since FLCL I wanted to try one of those...



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 No.115444[Reply]

Does it upset you when characters you like are mistreated in doujinshi? How much do you sympathize with them and how invested do you need to be before it starts bothering you?
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 No.122166

>Love tardsperming to boobhus
And what do they think of that?

 No.122169

>>122164
But if you only lewd series you aren't familiar with or don't enjoy, you only add to the mass of surface level horniness. You should strive to put affection and understanding into your lewdposting.

 No.122170

>>115444
>Does it upset you when characters you like are mistreated in doujinshi?
I don't dislike it. Sometimes I'm in the mood to see a girl be tormented. When you like a girl, you want to see all sides of her, not just when she's happy.

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>>122170

 No.122172

>>122169
>you only add to the mass of surface level horniness
True, but the breadth of well-informed stuff vs generic lewd is so wide that I think it's unreasonable to disregard the latter. Affectionate + in-character sex is great. But sometimes a wank is just a wank, and good art of some random girl you stumbled across will suffice.
That's why original characters are best.



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 No.120591[Reply]

Your board is cordially invited to piss in a SOKUNIGGER TOURNAMENT. Enter to compete for glory for yourself and your board.

TOURNAMENT STARTS AT MARCH 23RD, 8PM UTC https://time.is/ UTC https://prolikewoah.com/t/20240323T20

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For those that do not want to register manually, post the name that you are signing up with in the main thread. It will be added to the brackets.

Hisoutensoku is an expansion to Touhou 10.5 SWR and is a multiplayer fighting game made by Tasofro with ZUN's approval. It's easy to learn, hard to master battle system makes for fun and fast paced matches with counterhits often launching girls across the screen. Very fast when played right. As a P2P game, game hosts must forward ports in order to play it or use specific workarounds.

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

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 No.122055

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PRESTREAM STARTS NOW

https://cytu.be/r/touhourney

Please enjoy the prestream. Tournament starts in approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the delay - and hope you have fun playing!

 No.122057

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So you have something like a twitch stream feeding into cytube? That's really cool.

 No.122062

FINALS

 No.122063

Tourney's over and Az (Sakuya) won! Congratulations!

Consider practicing more on our board!

 No.122065

>>122063
Hooray! But I suck at fighting games!



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