Lost_My_Mind

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ooooooooo, I love your username! A username like that deserves a ticket on the number nine!

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Does a pocket protector count as clothing?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 85 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

What am I looking at exactly? I see a cropped image, and mastodon is under 70%. Based on an educated guess and nothing more, I'm going to guess what you're trying to convay is that in the pie that represents the total fediverse, mastodon used to account for more than 70%, and now smaller services are growing. So mastodons total pie share shrinks, as the pie grows in other areas.

Is that about what you're trying to say? Or am I way off?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Pssshhhhh, bezos money is all digital.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 14 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Soda Otters Pretzels?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 19 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Can we get it to hack chicago television stations and spank people live on air, and complain about democrats (if I'm remembering it right) before babbling into being completely incoherant?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 9 hours ago

The homeless do.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 9 hours ago

Dude!!! What's mine say???

[–] Lost_My_Mind 8 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 27 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

My mom is 75. She knows nothing about how cell phones work. She thinks to charge your phone you need to turn the phone off first.

She doesn't understand that airplane mode turns off your voice and data radios.

She holds the phone like a star trek communicator, NOT on speaker, and then complains she can barely hear you.

I think the boomers brains are just mush.

Edit: forgot to mention she turns the airplane mode ON and then turns the whole phone OFF. Once it's off, that's when she plugs it in.

Then she complains that turning her phone on always takes a while. My brother in law installed an app that just turns airplane mode off upon boot. That "taking a while" is the radios turning back on.

Otherwise, she used to call him from her landline (yeah) weekly to say her phone was broken. Everhtime it was just still in airplane mode. She does what she wants, doesn't understand any of it, and you can't explain it or talk her out of doing it her way.

......and people on this site were trying to convince me to teach her linux. Hell I don't even know what I'm doing on linux. That would be like the blind leading the stubborn.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 12 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah. Guns killing people.

[–] Lost_My_Mind -2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah. Either a gun range ISN'T currently off limits to minors, or guns are already banned there.

I can't decide which is more absurd.....

 

So it's these little GPS enabled robots the size of a marble. You stick them up your butt, and then they walk around, and map your insides, sending real time data and imaging to your doctor.

And they're programmed to do all sorts of stuff. Like if you can't poop, these things find the source of the blockage, and carry small chunks of poop and dump them in the toilet, before marching back up to complete their big brown business.

And they search for tumors inside you. They could even tattoo QR codes inside your bowels with a link back to a 20% off chipotle coupon, so when your doctor is rooting around in there, he can get lunch.

 

Person - Nick Jagger.

Place - Las Angeles.

Thing - Lawnmover.

And then Pat Sajak just acts like it's spelled right. "WHAT'DYA MEAN IT'S NOT NICK JAGGER??? HE'S THE SINGER FROM THE ROLLING STONED!"

 

So I have a style of comedic timing, that can basically be described as "Angry old man rants, while making culturally relevant references".

And part of my whole bit, is I'll list 3 things that are wrong in society that should make you angry/depressed, but because I'm ranting about them I'm making them into a joke. The joke being that I'm saying things that are true, I'm just saying them really really loudly.

5 years ago, I made the 3rd one into "And California can best be described as CURRENTLY ON FIRE!!!"

At the time, there was a wildfire. I figured, I better get in on that before they put the fire out. Not like it's going to be funny anymore in 3 months, right?

Well......it seems like I've not had to replace that line anytime I do one of my rants. It's been 5 years, and it seems like every few months there's ALWAYS another news story about California battling some raging inferno.

The original line was "And Australia can best be described as CURRENTLY ON FIRE", but that cultural reference came and went pretty quickly. Today most people don't even remember that some ridiculous amount like 70% of Australia inhabited areas were at one time engulfed in 30 foot tall fires in 2019.

But whereas Australia had a disaster, and an emergency situation, they did put it out. They put out the flames, and I assume they'll be rebuilding for decades. New Orleans still to this day is rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2004.

But, the point is, Australia has moved past their calamity. California it seems like it's never ending. They put out THIS fire, and then there's THAT fire a few months later. Then they put out THAT fire, but there's ANOTHER FIRE sometime later. Repeat and repeat and repeat.

Should we be worried that California seems to basically be an infinite tinderbox just waiting for a spark? I mean, I still get upvotes when I poke fun of all the chaos and destruction, but at this point it's starting to feel like making fun of the slow kid in class who eats glue.

 

Back when the X-Men movies were coming out, I had an idea. Instead of the 5 or so X-Men movies we got, I thought it would have been cooler to shoot 1 massive movie, that is released over multiple movies. If you don't think that's doable, I'll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.

But my idea is first you see X-Men. And it's a stand alone movie, but the individual X-Men kind of rotate in and out until the final battle of the movie. Only thing is, the final battle doesn't happen in this movie. Instead, the big finale is Morph of the X-men dies. He would be heavily featured in the main movie. As basically the "main character", since the other X-Men are tagging in and out so rapidly.

Then, 3 months later, we get "X-Men: Prof X". It's a back story of Charles Xavior, and how he started the X-Men. And it shows his lifes work leading up to, and including the events of X-Men. You even see every time Xavior was onscreen in X-Men, that footage is reused in "X-Men: Prof X" as part of the story. But this movie expands on his personal role in the main movie. And this movie would only be in theaters a short time. Maybe a month.

Then X-Men: Wolferine would come out. And again, his backstory, and the events leading up to, and including the footage from X-Men.

And you begin to see why the main movie the X-Men cycle in and out. Each individual X-men will get a brief run movie, and each movie will include footage from the original movie.

I figure Cyclops and Jean Grey would be bundled together for their backstory movie, and their scenes in the main movie would be bundled.

And each one would get these full movies, but they're like side piece movies. Thats why they get limited runs.

And remember when I said the final battle doesn't happen? Well, I lied. The final battle just doesn't happen in the FIRST movie. The second movie X-Men 2 picks up immediately after the first one ends. And by that, I mean even in shooting it's shot as just one continuous scene so the second one picks up IMMEDIATELY after Morphs death.

Then they spend the first third of the second movie regrouping, and making sure they're well prepared for the battle. And the middle third is fighting big fights, but not the final battle.

Then the final third is the big epic battle everything has been brewing towards. And it comes to a finale.

And then they judge audience engagement. If the audience just wants X3, thats where they go. But, if they want more Morph, they can do a Morph backstories movie. He doesn't get one with the rest, because he's already the main character of the first movie.

Oh......and by the way.......MY version would have had Wolferine WEAR THE GOD DAMN YELLOW SUIT!!!

But here's the cool thing about all of this. Both X-Men, X-Men 2, and all of the backstory movies (with the exception of Morph) would all be shot at the same time.

And the entirety of X-Men can be seen in the backstory movies if you watch all of them. However in each individual backstory movie, only maybe 15 minutes of the original movie is present, because each one only shows the footage reletive to that movie.

So anytime Wolferine is on screen in X-Men, that same footage will be used in X-Men: Wolferine. But you won't see Cyclops in X-Men: Wolferine unless he shared screen time with Wolferine in X-Men.

 

So this may be a very very niche use case......

But I have an 8bitdo Switch arcade stick. And I just bought this game yesterday. Now, I've only played it in handheld mode, but I cannot WAIT to get home, and play it with my arcade stick.

It's use of in game currency to advance yourself really replicates the spirit of quarter draining. $1000 in game currency = a 1-up. There's upgrades though. If you buy upgrades with your cash, all further runs will be a bit easier. Or you can unlock characters which have different abilities.

There seems to be just 4 stages, but I'm sure that'll unlock more stages as I beat all 4. I only did a quick pickup and play. Beat the 1st stage, died in the second one.

But if I'd have had $3,000 I could have traded in for 3 tokens. I only had $750. I know. I suck. But I was just playing casually on the joycons. When I get home, it's time to get down to serious business!

My point is, this game gave me the retro vibes of a arcade beat em up, while still maintaining the modern approach to game design. And still taking the time really think about how to handle unlockables. It's not just "reach the end of the stage, and beat the boss". There's a whole bunch of unlockables, and each one takes tokens to unlock. So you have to earn the money, and then decide if you're going to cash out, and delete your save, which gives you the tokens for unlockables? Or are you going to keep going, get MORE cash as you play, and risk using your cash on 1-ups?

I'm just starting, but this looks like a meaty advanture. I wish I were able to play this back in my drinking days.

 

FUCK YOU!!!

That shit is OVER! Take down your decorations. You're past the socially accepted limit.

Unless your name is Mick Foley. He's allowed to be as crazy as he wants. When YOU fall 18 feet to your death, twice in 30 minutes, and still get up breathing......yeah, nobody gonna mess with the hardcore legend.

 

Not saying that this is the only cause of divorce, or even the leading cause. I'm just saying that there are a lot of women out there who romanticise the wedding itself. Almost like the relationship, the wedding itself, is irrelevant.

Which totally misses the conceptual point of getting married in the first place. Some women just like the idea of having a big party, with all their friends and family, making them the center of attention for a day.

Which is FINE. If women want to have that happen, I feel like maybe we SHOULD make that a whole seperate other thing. Like a new holiday or maybe we combine the concept with their birthday.

It's just the concept we have now, the average wedding from the time the man thinks "I'm going to marry her" all the way through the first day they get back from their honeymoon......that entire process costs an average of $100,000. From the dress, to the ring, to the hall rental, to the wedding planner, to the catering, to the flight, and hotel, and rental car, and everything else that comes with the wedding, average cost is $100,000.

And the second you call anything a "wedding" anything, it skyrockets in price. Want a cake? Ok, sure, $30. Want a "wedding cake"? Yeah, $250.

You want a big poofy white dress? Hey is this a wedding dress? No. This is a wedding dress replica. It's being used to shoot a wedding scene in an independant movie. We're just buying the material. Yeah, ok. $70.

Oh, this dress is actually in a wedding? $2,000.

And I know this just seems like I'm just complaining about money. But it all ties together. Because if you ask most women what they dream about when they think about their dream wedding, they have this long list of things, and everything needs to be perfect, and the planning itself, the wedding party and appearance becomes an extention of themselves. If this is the womans first wedding, it really becomes a mirror of who they are are a person. This is why you should NEVER trust a guy with the wedding planning. At all. Unless you're willing to give up total control. Instead of your favorite flowers creating an arch that you walk under to get into the building? What if we instead had flame throwers that CONSTANTLY spewed flames which prevented you from getting in. And to stop the flames, you need to answer 3 riddles about the couple getting married. And if you get it wrong, a bunch of royal knights in platemail armor stab you with haberts until you get it right......or bleed out. And once you get inside the hall, all the hall vendors are cosplaying as classic pro wrestlers. Imagine coming in, and seeing Macho Man Randy Savage holding a plate of cheeses, and saying "OOOOH YEAH! TRY THE SWISS, IT'S AS GOOD AS MISS!!! ELIZABETH THAT IS! OR TRY THE CHEDDER! IT'LL KNOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR SWEATER!!! DIG IT!!!" Then he snaps into a slim jim.

See to me, that sounds awesome, and just as expensive as whatever the fuck would have been planned otherwise. But I also realize every woman who's in the current process of planning a wedding, read what I just wrote how I'd plan it, and they physically recoiled in cringe. And you're remembering that last week you asked your boyfriend what he wants at the wedding. And he said "whatever you want". And you tried to fight him about it, saying he needs to include his ideas.

No the fuck he doesn't. THESE are the ideas we create, and we know they aren't going to happen. Our ideas are not "good" from your perspective. Our ideas will cause fights. Because at the end of the day, you already know exactly what you want. You've been planning it since you were 5 years old, and you don't need any input from us. We're just going to screw it up. You just want to ask what we envision at the wedding, and you're under the delusional idea that we're going to say "White roses on every table, and all the groomsmen have green pockets on their suit vests." Or whatever the fuck is in your head. We're not going to say that. We've never in our lives had THAT vision. We know the wedding is going to look like how you want it to look. So we just say "Whatever you want to do, that's it." We stay out of it, because we don't want to start a fight over something we know we're going to lose anyways. That's a dumb fight. Telling a woman how to plan their wedding.

Well. I'm a dumb guy. Let me have a go.

The reason a decent percentage of these weddings end the relationships is because the money involved has no benefit to the couples long term happyness, and adds nothing to their lives. It's a big expensive party for the sake of a big expensive party. Nothing more.

And I hear you saying "But it's to celebrate the love between two people, and create a bond that will last a lifetime!"

No. Believe it or not, you can get married without all that stuff. The whole idea of a marriage, if you simplify it to it's core concept, is that you both have signed a paper informing the government that you are now a legalized couple within the country of residence that you got married. That's IT. You can both go down to the courthouse right now, fill out a form, sign it, and now you're married. I don't know what those forms cost, but I would assume about $100. And then you'd both go home to where you already live.

So you're saying "That sounds like a terrible wedding". And the issue here is, you're confusing the wedding PARTY with the idea of MARRIAGE.

So if you get proposed to, ask yourself this. Would you still marry this man if he insisted there were no party. No flowers. No big hall. No poofy white dress, no dancing, no family or friends, no big cake, no big vacation afterwards. Just you, him, city hall, a pen, and a form. Maybe a minister if the idea of religion is important to your marriage.

If you are in love with the person you're marrying, it might be disappointing, but it shouldn't be a deal breaker. If it's a deal breaker, you don't love the man. You love the idea of being the center of attention. And that, plus the huge amount of savings you're blowing, is the reason for the divorces. The party has ended. The party has brought you hard financial times, and you were never in love with the person to begin with. So now, they have nothing left to offer you.

Again, I'm not claiming this is the only reason, or even the leading reason for divorce. I'm just saying it's a significant percentage.

 

Think about it. What seems more Christmasy:

A man made of snow, and whom will melt when it gets hot wearing a magic hat

or

A peppermint ice cream man whom will melt when it gets hot. And he's wearing a magic ice cream cone on his head.

I know which one I'd pick.

 

A white T-Hee Shirt.....actually it doesn't matter if it's black or white.

 

So prior to WWII there was an order to things. Women stayed home. Men went off to work all day. The woman raised the kids, the man made the money, and together their home was well taken care of both financially and emotionally.

Then WWII happened, and Hitler was like "Hey man, come join these parties on the beaches! We got invited to France, and now we're hanging out! Come on over!"

Well.....it didn't happen EXACTLY like that, but the end result was that something like 60% of men in the USA were now over in Europe fighting WWII. Which left the issue of the ecconomy. Who was going to work, if the men weren't even in the country? So, the women did both jobs. They went to work. Then they came home and tried their best to raise the kids.

Doing that alone is tough.

Then the war ended, and the men came back with the idea that they'd just take over their old jobs, the women would go back home, and things would return to normal.

Except that didn't happen. The women decided that they enjoyed being at work more than they enjoyed being at home. And the men were stubborn like men are, and they ALSO went back to work. This left the entire boomer generation with a situation where nobody really raised them. Instead of previous generations who got good discipline from their mother, and a punishment from their father if they were bad, they instead got.....nothing. They were allowed to freely do whatever the fuck they wanted. Which is why that entire generation has felt so entitled from the time they were kids to now in AARP. There has never been a time when the boomers mentality as a generation has felt "I should be more responsible for myself and for others". Whereas that was the main mentality for centuries prior.

So now you got households throughout the 50s and 60s with 2 incomes, at a time that stores and the economy was designed for 1 home income. So families spent in excess because they had excess. Houses were cheaap, salaries were abundant, life was good.......as long as you ignored the cold war, and the fact that both America and the USSR were playing chicken with nuclear warheads. Other than that though.....

So now you got the 1980s, and the economy is starting to catch up to the idea that most houses have 2 incomes. They gouge a little more, because fuck it. The 1980s became the decade that was all about corporate greed. Remember that movie line? "Greed is good", and people were revoling in that concept. They were even dumb enough to believe in trickle down ecconomics, because their lives weren't fucked yet.

And the 90s is when things started tightening even more, where now it wasn't just known that you had a 2 income home, it was expected.

So then life went on, and corporate America just kept down that path of asking "In the 80s, we took.....and in the 90s, we took more! How much more can we take and take and take?"

And that's a question that they've been asking for decades now, and only very very very recently with Luigi Mangione have we seen any sign of what would it take for the public to fight back corporate America taking from them? We're FAR removed at this point from the average American household doing well. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, budgeting in a way that asks the question "Which is more important this month, heat, or food?"

Meanwhile the CEOs of this country have never had it better. The gap between them and the plebs has never been bigger.

Now let's look at the other side of things. People. Starting as kids. Now, each generation has different identities. The boomers are known for being self entitled brats who never grew up despite growing old. Gen X is known for self deprication in a way that's not really humor. They just kind of laugh to themselves but it's more to hold back tears because they know how fucked up their world is, but they also have never been allowed to overcome the boomers shadow. The millenials are known for being whiney, because that's what works. They whine about an issue, and now suddenly it gains traction, and you have millions of people whining about it. Now something can be done. The Zoomers are known for being politically minded from a young age, because they have to be. Growing up in the first age where school shootings are a more real threat than a fire.

But the one thing that all these generations have in common is the idea that nobody was there for them at home. Their parent(s) were always at work. They had either babysitters, or other temporary family watching (as in, maybe your grandparent watches you for the day. It's not that they're leaving your life, but they're also not the one who will be raising you).

And so you look at how kids have acted over the years. Kids will always rebel. They'll always act up. They'll always do something that needs a parent to raise them. Discipline is just as much about the guidance as it is the rules. Punishment is only there to make you understand that discipline has consequences for breaking.

Except kids today, and for a long time, have gotten none of that. Dating all the way back to the boomers. And just like corporate america taking a little bit more with each passing day, the youth with each generation falls a little more behind what they should be being taught. And not just in the schools. Not just knowledge. I'm including that, but I'm also talking about empathy, emotional guidance, character building. No, they get none of that. They get a screen 16 hours a day that the parent doesn't pay attention to. With the logic being "So what, they have an iPad all day? I had TV all day growing up, and I turned out fine."

No. No you didn't turn out fine. You, and everyone else around you, has turnout out horrible. So horrible that you don't even recognize what a stable person acts like. That's just your own ego refusing to admit to yourself that you might be flawed. You are. You are flawed. You're passing those flaws onto your children, or already have. This is a cycle that nobody is trying to break. The idea that a TV show, or an app, or a website, or whatever the fuck on a screen should fill in for your responsibility as a parent is mind boggling. You're entrusting a corporation to instill into your child good morals, empathy, how to be a good person. But as we've already covered, corporations do not give a shit about you. Corporations do not give a fuck about your family. Corporations just care about you long enough to let you watch their advertisements to sell you their products, and take your money. That's all you are to them. That's all your children are to them. That's all it's ever been. There's an entire industry out there to pay the grocery stores to place the kid friendly products on low shelves where they can reach them more easily. It's all very well thought out. It's designed to manipulate your kids into manipulating you into giving them more money. That's all it's ever been. That's all that screen is there to do. To feed you ads. To take your money. And now you've entrusted those people to raise your kids for 16 hours a day. Are you begining to see how flawed that is now?

So, I say we take an approach, as an entire society, to correct this coarse of action. We COLLECTIVELY need to go back to 1 income households. One parent stays home. One parent works. And I honestly don't see any advantage right now in making that a gender exclusive thing. For what the goal is, I think each individual household needs to discuss between partners who's better suited to work, and who's better suited to stay home? Because I think one person, even if they're not a parent staying home to cook and clean is important. With both of you working, it becomes an issue of "Ugh the house is messy" "Yeah, but I just worked for 10 hours. I just want to sit in this chair and do nothing" "Yeah me too.....guess we'll clean on the weekend". And then the weekend comes, and you got shit to do. You gotta go grocery shopping, you gotta pay bills, you gotta do all this other shit, and oh by the way, the dishes haven't been washed in like 4 days.

Well, they're only not getting washed because you're exausted. If you woke up at 10am, and did the dishes at like noon, and every day did some light cleaning. And then maybe did the grocery shopping for the week, then your partner would come home, the house is clean, and you can both spend time together doing nothing. Then the weekend comes, and all those chores are done. Your weekends together are free. And now you both have the time, and the energy to go to an art muesum, or to a baseball game, or whatever. Fuck it. The bills are paid, the house is clean, the meals are made. And the kids are getting life lessons all day from whomever is home, and best suited to teach them how to be good people.

Then suddenly, over the coarse of 3-4 generations, you have a smarter society, which leads to more people reaching bigger discoveries. Medicine, space, underwater, these are all feilds that we think we're experts in, but we only know less than 1% of what's out there. Nobodies even invented time travel yet!

And why are we living in a society where men work, and women also work? Because it brings home more money. But we're all living month to month. So are we REALLY making more money? Or are we just doing double the work?

We need to end the 2 income homes. 1 income should be all a home needs to survive.

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Does anyone remember Seaman? That game was great! Why are you giggling? I'm just talking about Seaman! Why does everybody giggle when I say I want to play with Seaman???

Oh, right. Some of you may be younger and have no idea what I'm talking about.

Seaman is a game that was released on Dreamcast. It's a game where you talk to a fish. No, I'm NOT joking. It came with a microphone. There was a fish, with a humans head. You talked to a fish. And usually it would insult you. It was narriated by Lenard Nemoy.

No, seriously. I'm NOT joking about any of this. That's real. That happened. When I was 16, I used to get high, and talk to a fish with Lenard Nemoy. Though, to be fair, he was only on the title screen as far as I remember. He would insult you for not having a life if you played too often. I once played for 30 minutes, saved, and turned off the Dreamcast. Then my friend came over, and was like "Why is there a microphone on your controller?" and I was like "You wanna talk to a fish?" and he was like "Dude.....I know you're high.....but what the fuck ARE you smoking right now?" And then we turned the game on, and Lenard Nemoy would always give updates about the tank enclosure since you last visited. But he also insults you for playing too much. It had only been a few minutes since I last played, and he said "It's nice to have you back so.......soon. If one didn't know better, one might think you're a bit obsessed. It is not necessary to tend to Seaman so often. That's not to say we don't enjoy having your company, but you need not revolve your life around a fish."

Even in it's day it was not well known, or understood. It was a batshit insane concept, executed with crazy core concept ideas as the foundation, and then they just said "Who can we get as a voice actor for the title screen who will be taken seriously in the sci-fi genre, but also needs some money right now?" and there was Lenard Nemoy.

STOP DOUBTING ME!!! I'M SERIOUS!!! THIS GAME WAS REAL!!!!

And we need it back. I just put a dreamcast emulator on my phone, and was in the break room at work. Just as I pressed the talk button, I said "Hello Seaman" as someone walked into the breakroom. He looked over at me like "......what did he say?" and then he hears my phone say "Yeah.....hello......" in a sarcastic tone. And I pressed the button again and said "Tell me a story, Seaman" and then he hears my phone say "What?" And I did it again. And Seaman said "No. I'm mad at you right now". And I said "Why are you mad, Seaman?" and he flug his poo at me.

Oh, did I forget to mention that Seaman is ABSOLUTELY a dick? Yeah, he's a total asshole, but that's what makes it funny.

He eventually starts asking you questions about your life, and keeping a log of your answers. And then he'll get to know you based on your answers. He'll ask you if you have a girlfriend. If you say no, he'll say "Well, there's plenty of fish in the sea.....or something like that. Hey, don't look at ME that way! I'm not lonely enough to date YOU! sigh Though, I suppose I could do worse. You DO take pretty good care of me."

We all have a device in our pockets right now that has a microphone, and we can all have fun in public getting weird looks. WE NEED A NEW SEAMAN GAME!!! Preferably as an app on our phones, but I'll take console/pc ports. Whatever gets me talking to a fish.

 

What is the difference between this and Lutris? Is there one reason I keep hearing about this launcher over and over and over this past week?

I thought Lutris launched all the games?

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