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Q: Do you still get stabbed if you decide to draw your gun?

GmoneyrocksIn the scene where you are asking for the tickets to the guy talking on the phone. If you demand the tickets he stabs you.

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Q: What is the difference if I Spare or Kill Capt. Slate?

SMTFDoes anyone know how Killing or Sparing Capt. Slate affects the outcome of the game ?

 
7:29 AM
Stencil test
The stencil was a little crooked, and the lines aren't as clean as I'd like them to be. The stencil itself is also a little too big, and there's that worrying extra spot of paint on the top left corner which I'm not sure how it got there
 
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Q: How do I bind a command to two buttons in Shank2?

hunter2I'm using a gamepad for Shank 2. I think the default gamepad controls assign dodge to the sticks, but my pad doestn't have sticks. So, I want to bind it as a two-button command, eg dodge-right == [right shoulder] + [right d-pad]. The control settings page will accept one or the other, but n...

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Q: How do I set a character to be at least level 30, with all weapon slots unlocked, and already in True Vault Hunter Mode, w/o playing through the game?

galacticninjaI would like to play with the same level and questlines as my friend's characters, which are mostly Level 30+ and in True Vault Hunter Mode, but some of my characters that I'd like to play are in a low level and are not yet in True Vault Hunter Mode. I'd rather not play through the game again to ...

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Q: BoI erases my data

hunter2I got Binding of Isaac for Linux through the Humble Bundle. It works fine, and sometimes saves my data (things found, challenges unlocked, etc.), but then sometimes erases them - seemingly at random. I've tried restoring what I thought was the save data (in ~/.macromedia/... I think), to no a...

 
8:15 AM
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Q: Quake 3 Team Arena won't start without restarting steam

MagnetI have Quake 3 Team Arena installed on Windows 7 32 bit via steam and whenever I start up steam and go to play it, it'll boot up just fine. If I play another game on steam beforehand and then go to play Quake 3 it won't start up. If I restart steam I can play Quake 3 again. What is going on here?...

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Q: What role does the number "77" play?

RetrosaurAt the beginning of the game, you receive a telegram which tells you to avoid the number 77. Further down the line, during the chapter, you enter a raffle in which the number you pick is 77, and ends up leading to your first "firefight". I'm curious as to whether or not the number 77 plays a ro...

 
8:37 AM
*yawn*
 
8:54 AM
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Q: Should triple buffering always be enabled?

ColdblackiceBesides a minor tax on memory, I've gathered that triple buffering is always a win-win situation, and that there's little, if any, reason to not use it. Is this the case? Should I just leave D3DOverrider (or Radeon Pro?) permanently running? Win 7 x64 12GB DDR3 AMD 7950 3GB

 
 
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10:00 AM
*yawn*
 
FAE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone You could improvise and make it into a tiny star/sparkle
 
10:29 AM
The bigger problem is the paint doesn't have even thickness, so some parts are darker than others
Well, lighter, since this is white paint. I think multiple coats should do the trick
 
squeal Doctor Who returns on Saturday! With Jenna-Louise Coleman!
 
FAE
What kind of paint did you use, just plain fabric paint?
And yeah, one or two more layers should even it out, painting on black t-shirts almost always necessitates a few passes.
 
Yeah, plain fabric paint
 
@MBraedley I had to google that one. Soap opera starlet? Having such an actor playing some role on the show is a good thing?
 
@MartinSojka She's done other stuff. And she was really good in Asylum of the Daleks and the Christmas special already.
 
10:33 AM
@FAE That was only a test. The actual shirt is a plain dark purple shirt.
 
FAE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Aaah okay.
 
@MartinSojka Consider her to be the young British female version of Nathan Fillion. He got his start on soaps too.
 
I hope it works. I do have to redo the stencil though. This one is a little too big.
 
Good moaning
 
@fredley moan
 
10:37 AM
So when is Easter anyway?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Sunday
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone This Sunday for some of us, 5th May for others.
 
Uh, so Good Friday is the day Jesus died, and Easter is the day he is revived, right?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes. Today he got nailed to the cross
 
Also, SwiftKey doesn't have the word Jesus in its dictionary and offered to correct it to Jewish instead
 
10:39 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nice
 
Strange coincidence
 
Well, he was Jewish. Close enough. ;)
 
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Q: Who or what was Songbird?

iberI'm after beating whole game and I have hope that I missed something important connected with this fascinating creature of developers imagination. How it was created? Does it eat anything? It was human? Am I too curious and I should accept that this is only a game and some questions are unansw...

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Q: How deep underwater is Rapture?

iberI was curious about how deep it is and what the pressure is like at that depth.

 
Every time I install Java I lose another small part of my soul
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Don't worry, the rest goes with each flash player update.
 
11:11 AM
@M'vy Speak of the devil...
 
^^
lunch time!
 
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Q: Why is GPU core clock cutting itself in half?

ColdblackiceI'm using Afterburner to "natively" overclock a 7950, having used the "-xcl" option. From what I understand, this bypasses the need for unofficial Afterburner overclocking, and instead unlocks the limits through Catalyst Control Center, which CCC then manages/controls. The problem is that althou...

 
> If you have any additional feedback for us -- thoughts on the promo, suggestions for other games that should receive this treatment, prophetic warnings about red sharks wearing Darth Vader masks -- please provide them in the field below.
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ahmahgad 18 flags
@RavenDreamer also grats on your double victory
 
11:42 AM
7 hours later, I'm still watching paint dry
 
Is the paint at least an attractive colour?
 
It's boring white and pink, unlike the attractive shade of mauve in the MLP episode
Mauve is such a nice word
Mmmmmmmhmmmm, maaauuuuuve
 
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Q: Can I load puzzles manually in Shortyz without an internet connection?

hunter2Shortyz (a crossword app for Android) seems to be designed to download puzzles. My device doesn't connect to the internet. Is there a way to manually load puzzles? (ie, By putting .puz files in a directory on the SD card)

 
12:11 PM
@RavenDreamer Finally! Somebody who will listen to all of those prophecies I've been stockpiling.
 
12:34 PM
You people are all so boring that I'm going to leave for work early. I hope you're all happy.
 
*tumbleweed*
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz argh vba
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Port to Google Docs: MMORPG
 
hehehe
 
Hmmmm, since Windows 7 comes with this ClearType adjustment tool, would that mean if I tweak the settings around screenshots taken on my computer won't look as good on other people's screens?
 
12:39 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not so much that anyone would care or notice
 
Well, there is one setting which would probably be noticeable - the subpixel ordering setting. Though I think most screens these day use the same order, so there shouldn't be much difference
 
Good morning, Bridge.
 
morning
 
Morning
 
Pfft. I come from the future. Y'all shall bow before my... futureness
 
1:04 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Is it tomorrow yet? Didn't think so.
 
It will be in 3 hours
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Your future is incorrect anyway.
 
Good morning, Bridge
 
I hunger, cowards.
 
@OrigamiRobot Hunt monsters for raw meat and cook it on your spit.
 
1:18 PM
cook? What is this cook?
I think the only options are Tin and Eat
 
BACON!
 
Tim Cook. Obviously
Eat your iPad
 
@fredley Java installs are fairly painle.... wait, you mean on a client machine?
 
@StrixVaria Shut it up, you.
 
@Powerlord JRE on Windows
 
1:22 PM
@fredley One tip to save you some headaches: Download it from the dev site so it doesn't prompt you to install that shitty toolbar.
 
"Do you want to install the Ask too.." NO!
@Powerlord That is indeed a handy tip
 
I'll make it even handier.
 
@Powerlord That's a thing? I love you.
@Powerlord is my new god.
 
See? Now it has a link!
 
He has given me everything I've always wanted.
 
1:23 PM
Just make sure you grab the JRE and not the JDK
Not that it hurts to have the JDK, and the JDK automatically installs the JRE...
 
@fredley That would actually be awesome. But it's probably using VBA script crap isn't it?
 
@BenBrocka Excel can use .NET these days
 
@BenBrocka Yes, but I think there's some scripting in Docs, not sure
 
Which makes me wonder why they wouldn't just write it in .NET...
 
1:24 PM
@Powerlord "man writes game in .net" is hardly news, for one
 
I found this cat lying in front of a shop on the ground level of my block of flats
@BenBrocka Neither is using VBA, to be honest
 
@BenBrocka Isn't this game written in .NET?
 
@BenBrocka You know something's stupid when even SlashDot doesn't report on it, a site known for its posts.
 
@fredley I meant the "it runs in excel" is the part that's interesting, not anything else
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Aww, what a cute mat.
 
1:26 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's his rug now.
 
Morning, Bridge
 
@BenBrocka No as in this game, the one we're playing right now
 
Pft, it's just multiplayer notepad
 
@BenBrocka No, that's WinChat
This is more like multiplayer Excel
It's a single column
 
Hmmm, now that I look closely you can actually see his claws sticking out
 
1:28 PM
And we're all entering things into cells
 
> what I do, what I'm best at, what I love to do more than anything else in the world, is design massively multiplayer games for people who like to type paragraphs to each other. --Jeff Atwood
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cc: @StrixVaria
 
@OrigamiRobot What does Vigilance do?
 
attacking doesn't cause it to tap
 
@fbueckert Does not tap to attack.
 
1:35 PM
I assume Reach allows blocking of flying creatures.
 
@fbueckert Yes
 
he should have Horseman as well
or was it Rider?
The thing that was like Flying, but different
(just to make him even more badass)
 
@Sconibulus Horsemanship
 
Ahh, right, thanks
for which I can only assume the "Reach" would eventually have been called "Piker"
 
How many deleted answers has it accumulated?
 
1:43 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Two deleted and two bad-but-not-deleted
 
It's got a decent accepted answer
 
I can't see that... but it seems to get resurrected with an answer that doesn't add much every few months
 
Protected
 
This seems be yet another question that's not related to gaming.
 
@fbueckert It's good enough for me
 
1:45 PM
@fredley The scary part is that's one of the least funny things he's said. At least compared to his blog
 
Seems fine to me, Vsync is pretty much exclusively relevant to gaming
 
@Powerlord I am in awe of Jeff
 
@BenBrocka Due to the exclusive mode that gaming tends to use?
 
@BenBrocka Excel doesn't have states, so yeah, it has to use macros
 
@fbueckert Well I've never seen anything else break vsync, ever. Maybe other graphics programs could, but it's certainly not something many non-gamers would be concerned with
Your 24FPS WMV files are never going to break vsync
 
1:48 PM
@BenBrocka All I really know about VSync is that it tends to be slower with it on.
 
FAE
@fbueckert I absolutely despise screen tearing, so I always turn on Vsync.
 
Well it never actually renders frames your display can't show in the first place
 
@fbueckert Lower technical FPS, yes. But the tearing is pretty amazingly annoying
I'm surprised it's almost never on by default
Unless your PC is too slow to render frames fast enough to break vsync I guess. In which case I doubt you'd notice
 
If he was asking about an in-game option, I'd agree. Asking about various programs that enable vsync is outside our expertise, in my opinion.
 
@OrigamiRobot Doesn't have flanking and banding. Sucks.
 
1:51 PM
Especially as it's digging into the technical aspects of how they work.
 
@StrixVaria I can't wait to see the other guild champs. They look like they're going to be great for EDH.
 
@fbueckert Didn't we allow a question on graphics cards? This doesn't seem any worse
 
@SaintWacko It's a wonky grey area. Somewhat of a judgement call.
 
@fbueckert This one seems better than the graphics card one
 
Which is completely OK by me. Not everything has to fit into neat little boxes.
 
1:58 PM
woohoo, Arqade rep just passed SO rep : () )
being able to take half an hour to build a good answer helps here
 
@Sconibulus Yeah, that's one thing about Arqade that is much more true than of SO.
FGITW is a problem, but it's one that's very much able to be overcome through writing ability, research, and effort.
 
raaaawr
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I will upvote a minecraft answer with a screenshot over a stupid ASCII schematic every time.
 
How we all doin?
Bank holiday \o/
 
2:06 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Also, on SO, FGITW is about 2 minutes instead of 15 : () )
 
So I uninstalled the Swiftkey demo, and my phone is no longer dying after six hours.
 
Yay!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz While it IS awesome, it is also so very sad
 
@fbueckert The keyboard is a battery drain? Interesting
 
2:07 PM
Can anyone tell me why?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It itself was fine, I think.
 
@djsmiley2k Thinking too hard is a bad thing
 
It had a stupid daily reminder that the trial was over, and I should buy it, though.
And that, for some reason, was murdering the crap out of my battery.
 
@fredley The answer is pretty simple
 
@djsmiley2k I know, it's hard though
 
2:09 PM
@fredley Want a clue?
 
@fbueckert "for some reason"
 
@badp Not sure where you're going with that.
 
If that was an "unintentional feature" it'd still be a pretty handy one for the developer.
 
@fredley also theres a clue in the article
When was the last time you asked a kid what they thought?
 
@badp As in, "Buy our product, or your phone will die?"
 
2:11 PM
@fbueckert He is saying the reason is extortion.
 
@fbueckert "Stop using our product for free, the demo is over," anyway.
 
@badp The stupid part is that Swiftkey disables their predictive algorithm when the trial is over; all you have left is the keyboard itself.
And the daily reminder to buy it.
 
@OrigamiRobot not so much extortion because the "unintentional feature" (= the battery being drained very fast) goes away as the demo is uninstalled.
More like, you know, kind of rare code path that isn't checked very hard for bugs
 
@badp That just means you can escape.
 
I honestly don't know how malice is there. I wouldn't be surprised if the developer didn't honestly prefer making SwiftKey itself better
 
2:15 PM
LAST DAY OF WORK BEFORE HOLIDAY IS POINTLESS DAY
 
I don't get a holiday...
 
@fredley I don't get tomorrow off :(
 
@fredley It's time to write in your easter egg for April 1st, obviously.
 
@OrigamiRobot I have all the days off.
 
I'm probably going to take PTO anyway because Friday is a half day anyway.
 
2:16 PM
(Please don't get fired for it)
 
I don't get a holiday on Friday, but the city I work in does.
On the bright side, free parking tomorrow!
 
@badp I won't be on the internet :(
 
@fredley Last day of work before five day weekend means shit needs to get done!
 
@fredley What else is there to do on days off?
 
@OrigamiRobot Game, of course.
 
2:18 PM
@OrigamiRobot Relax in the sun in Morocco
@fbueckert I'm off for a week and a half
 
@fredley ...damn. That's a nice stretch.
 
@fbueckert For only 4 holiday days taken, a good deal
and it's a family holiday, so I'm not paying anything for it \o/
 
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Q: Does this life end?

RavenMDoes the Arcade game: Fix-it Felix Jr. have an ending? Because it seems like it's going on forever.

 
@fredley I'm looking forward to this weekend.
Family time is awesome time.
 
@Lazers A new use with an innate sense for good title writing.
 
2:21 PM
@Lazers As far as I can tell, no, it never ends.
 
@fbueckert Sunny time is awesome time. There's fucking snow outside and it's nearly April.
 
@fredley I was about to edit it to "Does the game end", actually
 
Get your act together Summer!
 
Which is weird, because in the movie its based on, the game DOES end.
 
@fredley You don't want a picture of what my world looks like.
 
2:21 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nah, leave title
@fbueckert I do if it's colder than mine actually
 
So anyway, I fell to temptation last night and started playing Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.
Unlike the first game, they divide this one into missions... and you can only save between them or by heading back to the lab early. As I recall, you can save anytime during the first game.
 
Mar 5 at 22:38, by fbueckert
user image
 
FAE
Does anyone here know if you can play Indie Game: The Movie on Steam with subtitles?
 
@fbueckert Ideal, thank you
 
That was my backyard at the beginning of the month.
 
2:23 PM
@fbueckert I am glad you are colder than me
 
FAE
Or would I have to download and not run it through Steam to do that?
 
@fredley I live in the middle of flatlands, with nary an ocean anywhere near.
I'm also going to be warmer than you during summer, I suspect.
 
@fbueckert Poor choice of biome.
 
@fredley I blame the parents; this is how life is supposed to be, now.
I don't know what I would do without enough snow to come up to my waist during winter.
 
@fbueckert My problem: although the weather is better in many other places, none of them are Britain, so I don't want to live there
@fbueckert frolic?
 
2:26 PM
@fredley Yup. That's my exact take on it, too.
 
@fbueckert thats quite some snow.
 
@fredley Winter! Must have snow! Lots of snow.
 
@FAE You have to run the executable I believe
 
There's a rough guestimate of 2 feet's worth on the garage roof.
 
lots of snow is good, a piddily amount is suck.
If it keeps me in the hosue/garden, tehn I'm happy!
 
2:27 PM
When you launch the movie from within Steam it should launch an executable, which has subtitle options
There's no subtitles if you try playing the movie file directly
 
FAE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ah okay, thanks, it seems the subtitle options only show up in the toolbar that's there after the movie starts playing, not in the base menu.
 
@djsmiley2k Last winter, we barely had snow for Christmas. It was one of the mildest winters I've ever experienced.
This winter seems to be making up for it, though.
 
@fbueckert Snow is fun for a period of about 6 hours. After that it's a massive PITA. Especially as a cycle commuter
 
@fredley We have snow for ~5-6 months out of the year.
You'd probably hate it.
 
FAE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm one of those weird people that prefers to have subtitles even on stuff I watch in my native language.
 
2:30 PM
@fbueckert *shudder*
For skiing holidays, yes, but for day to day life it's just awful
 
@fredley It's a way of life for us.
 
I like snow...
 
We had a massive snowstorm back in the '90s. It was so bad, it completely blocked the only door out of our house.
 
2:31 PM
@fbueckert Damp mildness is a way of life here.
 
Think about that a bit. That's something like six feet of snow.
 
@fbueckert I visited friends in Switzerland when it was like that.
 
@fredley Days where it is snowing tend to be warmer than days where it's incredibly clear.
 
@FAE I do that in games
 
Those beautiful, crisp days where everything is blanketed in snow, and you can see forever? Yeah, -40.
 
FAE
2:34 PM
@SaintWacko Same.
 
The suckiest part about all the snow is the shovelling.
 
I usually do without them if I can in movies. They can be a little distracting.
 
FAE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I can read a sentence at a glance so they' don't take away anything for me.
 
@fredley I wanna go skiing :(
No one will go with me :(
 
@OrigamiRobot Me too :(
Not been for yars
@fbueckert I know this much
 
2:38 PM
Me neither :(
 
Surprisingly, I've never been skiing.
 
I haven't been in at least 10 years.
 
I toboggan with the best of them, but never ski.
 
We never had enough snow to properly sled.
And ice makes sledding kinda scary.
@fredley Let's go skiing then.
 
@OrigamiRobot Ice at the bottom of a hill is fun.
 
2:41 PM
@OrigamiRobot Deal. Porkchop robot skiing.
 
@fbueckert Ice everywhere is not.
@fredley Imagine me and you, and you and me
 
Well hello there bridge!
How's the weather looking for all you guys out there?
 
Cold and bleak with random nice days just so nature can strip them away and go back to cold.
 
Everyone here from the east coast?
This winter's been pretty mild, as far as I can tell
 
@fbueckert I'd die.
 
lol
 
@OrigamiRobot No, you wouldn't.
 
user15026
(because it cant find waterloo)
 
user15026
2:47 PM
It's actually not that bad out
 
@AshleyNunn Morning!
Kairosoft released another game!
Ninja Village!
 
@fbueckert All the turtle tears I use for fuel would freeze.
 
user15026
@fbueckert augh
 
user15026
I mean yay
 
@OrigamiRobot The turtle also lives in Canada.
Fun fact: tears are salty; takes a lot more cold to freeze them.
 
2:48 PM
@fbueckert My systems remove the salt.
 
@OrigamiRobot Your problem.
 
@fbueckert Yes, it is a problem I have. That's what I said!
 
Tears are salty. Bacon is salty. Therefore, Bacon is made of tears!
 
@Powerlord That's logic!
 
@OrigamiRobot Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!
 
user15026
2:50 PM
@Powerlord Bacon is made of sadness?
 
@fredley Whoa now, let's not rush into things...
 
@AshleyNunn Not having 999 is made of sadness.
 
@AshleyNunn Tears can be happy.
 
user15026
@Powerlord I am well aware of this!
 
The @fredley's new clothes!
 
2:51 PM
@OrigamiRobot Says you, robot
 
Happiness is a warm fill-in-the-blank
(The Peanuts version of this was either "blanket" or "puppy" depending on who said it)
 
@Powerlord Bacon.
 
and if you were thinking something perverted... shame on you!
 
@OrigamiRobot Bacon had better be warm.
 
@Powerlord Do you still play TF2?
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2:54 PM
@Retrosaur You're... kidding, right?
 
hue pls gimmeh all your unusuals kthxbai
 
Asking me if I still play TF2 is like asking a fish if it lives in water.
 
Mudfish live in mud
Also, dead fish are in my stomach
I can't find your steam profile in ARqade
 
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Q: Can you change the outcome of the game's ending?

RetrosaurAre there any ingame actions that lead to a change in the ending of Bioshock: Infinite? Similar to how Bioshock 1 and 2 worked, where in 1, if you killed a certain number of Little Sisters or didn't kill any of them, it would significantly impact the story's ending. Does the same thing apply her...

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Q: What is an "analog face button"?

Biff MaGriffI was reading up on the PS4 Arstechnia via Slashdot And the new PS4 controller is getting rid of the "analog face buttons" that were on the PS3 controller. What is that referring to? The Start/Select buttons?

 
@Retrosaur I don't have an Arqade account.
 
2:56 PM
Nevermind, I found ya
 
You could just try steamcommunity.com/id/powerlord
 
Holy shit
 
Assuming I have that URL right
 
9 years of service
That's the longest I've seen
 
@Retrosaur Registered on Halloween 2003, yes.
 
user15026
2:57 PM
@fbueckert Cold bacon isn't the end of the world.
 
HOLY CRAP WHAT A HUGE BACKPACK
I wonder what's the value of your bp
brb pricechecking
 
@Retrosaur My, aren't we nosy?
 
Just curious, why are some of the older usernames
actually names, whereas mines is a number
 
@Retrosaur In your profile, you can set a community name.
 

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