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5:00 PM
Numbers. How do they WORK
 
@murgatroid99 I didn't understand that either
Though the wiki implied the Blue ending didn't blow em up
 
@BenBrocka They sure looked like they were exploding in that video
 
@BenBrocka I think they make sense for getting to the catalyst in the first place
 
wait, now the wiki page says they all result in destruction
 
i.e., you don't have enough allies to punch through the reapers, you either don't make it to the catalyst or don't have time to use it once you get there
 
5:01 PM
@murgatroid99 I took it as more of a "shockwave" than that's actually their explosion
 
@Sterno Are there actually endings like that?
 
@murgatroid99 No
 
I mean, if that were the actual explosion, we just destroyed the entire galaxy
@Sterno that would make sense, but it doesn't happen
 
@murgatroid99 The score only affects which of the 3 options you can choose, and what effect the pretty explosions have on earth. Which makes no sense
 
Score also affects whether people in the cutscenes are happy or not
 
5:02 PM
@BenBrocka see timestamp 1:28 in the video. All of the endings show the relay falling appart
 
For anyone reading backscroll in chat, be warned ME3 SPOILERS ABOVE
 
@murgatroid99 ohh, yeah
 
@Sterno It might be related to how much destruction the reapers cause before you manage to stop them, based on the fleets you have available
 
weird, can't bold something on a newline
 
(didn't really help me >_>)
 
5:04 PM
Yeah, if you don't want ME spoilers just erase the last ~10 minutes of your brain
 
Luckily I only saw a tiny bit before I realized what you guys were talking about
 
@rapida I was trying to be vague but it kind of got away from me.
 
@Sterno At this point it is my own fault I haven't beaten it IMO, so no biggie
LoL keeps getting in the way
 
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Q: 3 stars when defeating the pigmobile

JohnathanI've beaten the pig on Pig Bang level 1-30 with two or three birds and got 73760 as my highest score, which is enough for two stars. I'm guessing the 3-stars score is around 75k. The problem is that there's not much in the way of points in this level, and I don't think I can beat it with just o...

 
huh, not enough War Assets means Big Ben explodes
 
5:06 PM
@BenBrocka Which makes sense because shut up, that's why
 
Clearly the Krogan Fleet was assigned to protect Big Ben
If they didn't have enough backup, the WORST POSSIBLE THING happens...
 
As if games weren't always about maximizing arbitrary measures of success
I imagine it sucks getting the "Earth blows up and every living being in the fucking Universe dies" ending after you buy and play each game for 60+ hours, though.
 
I guess it makes sense though if you take it as affecting how good of a victory you have
@badp it's not entirely clear that's what happens...but they did hint that that's possible through the whole game
Also, it's just the galaxy, not the universe
 
@BenBrocka Oh, good, so it's the Universe if you die midway through.
 
Billions of years later, intergalactic aliens will find earth and think "LOL, shepard couldn't get enough war assets."
 
5:09 PM
So even in the worstestest ending you've still made a difference!!!!
 
@sterno ... but unfortunately plot holes questions are bad here or I'd have no trouble getting from 31/35 to 35/35 :-)
 
@badp That seems to be a common ending though that's basically what the Halo series threatened too (well, the earth wouldn't specifically blow up)
 
@BenBrocka No they won't because it was blown up
 
@Rapida eh. What more can you put at stake?
You can go about it in a few ways, e.g. collapsing time in a singularity of some such, I guess, but...
 
Yea it gets pretty tough, maybe some infinite loop of you and everyone you love being killed
 
@badp everyone in the universe dies except you?
and you just want to read a book
and then your glasses break
 
And all the batteries in your portable devices are dead. No angry birds for you
 
@Rapida Well, electricity's still working in households.
 
Or maybe just you and ronnie
 
Break in, plug in battery charger. Steal their glasses.
 
5:15 PM
@Sterno Then you could be pro much buddies
 
Well, include an entropy curse on the protagonist so that he is perceptually cursed with bad luck. Then he just breaks his new glasses and kills any electronics.
 
It's too bad Paralytic was apparently sockpuppeting or whatever, because he had some good answers
 
@sterno Yep, I was just reading his one about mp'ing an adept
 
Is Game Council actually going to happen?
 
@fredley If not it'd make an excellent name fora podcast.
 
5:25 PM
@fredley I hope not :((((
 
@OrigamiRobot I swear there used to be a Meta post with old suggestions on, can't seem to find it
QuickSave was one of them I think
 
@RonanForman Now for a podcast, yes, I can see that name working.
 
@Stephen Agreed, since that is something put together by a few people (a council) for the community
Why can't we use Stack Gaming?
 
how do I paste an image with out it being shown (as this one has a few f-bombs in it :))
 
@fredley That name's already taken.
 
5:28 PM
@RonanForman Yes, but SE could buy it
 
@James link to the image
 
@fredley Sure!
 
@RonanForman :P
 
Although who would get the money?
 
tries canabalt
 
5:28 PM
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Q: stackgaming.com DNS creation

Marco CeppiI purchased and setup the http://stackgaming.com to make it easy for people to find and join community operated gaming servers. As more and more appear I'd love to make this domain available to other users for DNS hosting. So, if you have a game server that you're running and would like a subdoma...

 
Fucking windows. How do they work.
 
Bah, its all in a ton of small images... Let me get the complete comic link
 
@fredley Fine.
 
There, that was hilarious :D
 
@RonanForman Given that SE is about to buy 9 people motherflipping TVs I'm sure they can handle it
 
5:29 PM
@FAE You are aware that the only reason I closed this question was because you flagged it for closure, yes?
 
Hi @ManaDreamer
 
Hi @StrixRobot.
 
@fredley If I can get the votes pulled together it'll be 10 :-) Still working at it!!! :)
 
@RavenDreamer I prefer @OrigamiVaria :P
 
@Stephen I slipped one your way. Good luck!
 
5:32 PM
@Mana / @RavenDreamer and @StrixVaria / @OrigamiRobot, you guys can talk about cute names for your relationships later :P
 
0
Q: Strategies for an Infiltrator on silver/gold

StephenIs there a good build that allows an infiltrator to succeed in silver/gold multiplayer? Cloak is also great at putting me in a support role to get over and medi-gel my comrades but I came to party :) I've been tinkering around with the suggested cloak/sniper rifile/shotgun style of playing, and...

 
@IanPugsley I think now is the perfect time.
 
@fredley Thanks ... everything's helping :)
 
@IanPugsley Best IRL relationship name: Obama/Cameron -> Oberon
 
@fredley "IRL" - you knew an Oberon? If so, badass.
 
5:34 PM
@IanPugsley Oberon, King of the Fairies? I agree. Badass.
 
@fredley you know a [king|faery] IRL!?
 
*fairy?
 
@IanPugsley I know the actor who played one, is that still IRL?
@badp Both are acceptable
 
@fredley Didnt Martin Short play a Faery in that Merlin special?
 
@fredley sure, it counts
 
5:36 PM
@IanPugsley Awesome
 
> "I'll ban you so hard your children will be born with limited permission sets"
5
 
@fredley as is "wee folk", etc. :P
@John ha
 
@IanPugsley If you're gonna go off of "fae" at least say "faerie"
 
@OrigamiRobot Why stop there when you can go all the way to "færie"?
 
@fredley Even better :P
 
5:40 PM
@OrigamiRobot potato tomato
 
@fredley I am not sure who.. but someone is very close to taking an arrow in the knee :)
 
@IanPugsley I think you mean tomato tomato
 
tomato potato tomato potato
(its from Mega Mind)
 
@IanPugsley more like "tomato tomaytow"
 
stupid laggy RDP window
 
5:42 PM
@OrigamiRobot You mean "tomato tomAHto"?
 
@fredley No, that's the wrong pronunciation.
 
@OrigamiRobot Which one?
 
@fredley All of them.
 
(I'm English - therefore my pronunciation of English is correct by default)
 
5:45 PM
@fredley British English or American English?
 
@IanPugsley Actually English.
 
I guess saying "I'm English" implies England
 
@IanPugsley British English. American English is not a nationality.
 
yeah
 
user30
@fredley American English is not English.
 
5:46 PM
@ThomasMcDonald They ought to just drop the pretence and call it American
It would upset some Dons in Oxford, but that's about it
 
user30
@Ronan Did you rate my road?
 
@fredley that would make the "US is America" people too happy
 
Yay! Team English!
 
user30
Whaaat.
 
@ThomasMcDonald It was great.
 
5:47 PM
@IanPugsley Good point. Can't have those pesky Americans feeling good about anything.
 
argh.
 
@badp Hello
What seems to be the problem?
 
@fredley we are a rather grumpy bunch (unless you're celebrating AMERICA)
I'm a rather self-hating American though - I'm up for trades, if someone's got a better nationality to offer
 
Britain is in a nose-dive at the moment
Perhaps we could all move to Sweden and live with notch?
 
@IanPugsley I can get you Aztec at half price.
 
5:48 PM
@fredley worse than America?
@OrigamiRobot I said better nationality, not just a good deal
 
@IanPugsley Oh God no, don't be ridiculous. Currently we still have a National Health Service for a start
And you can't shoot someone without being arrested
 
@fredley see if I was a real American I'd get mad about these :P
 
@IanPugsley Clearly you're not patriotic enough to live in America
 
0
Q: I'm stuck in the endless celebration of my newfound fisting powers

badp Rayman is not impressed with my cutscene quitting skills. I've reached the very first cutscene in the game and I can't find the way out. Walking to either side does nothing. Pressing ESC brings the game menu, but little else. I can only throw my fists for however long I want to and lis...

 
@fredley What if no one knows you shot the person?
 
hahaha
 
@James It's like a new game
@OrigamiRobot Then I guess your punishment is the same globally
 
@fredley So you can shoot someone without getting arrested...
 
@fredley The cats jumping on the chests so you cant open them makes me laugh :)
As did Jeb's tweet about em
 
FAE
@James Whomever chose those new wood colors has apparently never actually seen the inside of a pine tree.
 
5:54 PM
@FAE Are you referring to the jungle colour?
It looks like it's been varnished with a red oil. How considerate of the tree to pre-oil itself.
 
FAE
@fredley To the supposed "pine" color that's darker than all the others.
 
@FAE Oh I see. You have a point there. Birch and pine colours should be swapped.
 
@FAE Yeah they made them match the 'tinting' of the bark, not the real color of the wood under the bark.. But I am just happy for the contrast :)
 
FAE
@fredley A minor quibble I suppose, in a land of redstone and zombies, but it still stood out to me :P
 
@FAE The got the size of the spiders a bit wrong too
Oh, and the shape of celestial bodies
 
5:58 PM
@fredley LOL
 
And the resolution. Kind of a big error that.
They should really work on the realism, Minecraft looks nothing like the real world at all.
 
@fredley Flossing a dead horse are we?
I have been trying to material out the falling water house I have done, its still half dirt
The different wood color planks will help
ill have a Neapolitan colored house :D
 
@James I've always hated cats...
 
1
Q: How can I beat level 1-25 of Aporkalypse?

user22035I'm playing level 25 of the first part of Aporkalypse (an android game). On the left side there's a key and a target but I can't figure out how to get both of them. I end up boxing myself in or falling down and getting stuck. How can I solve this? Maybe there's an extra box I can use, do you ...

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Q: I'm stuck in the endless celebration of my newfound punching powers

badp Rayman is not impressed with my cutscene quitting skills. I've reached the very first cutscene in the game and I can't find the way out. Walking to either side does nothing. Pressing ESC brings the game menu, but little else. I can only throw my fists for however long I want to and lis...

 
I rather like cats :)
 
6:02 PM
@James Oh lol ooops. >.>
 
@John Haha, YOu are allowed to hate cats.. I do not really like dogs ;)
 
All animals are pretty cool guys.
 
FAE
@RavenDreamer Well, I would assume that's not the only reason. I was going off my interpretation of intended handling of those questions based on what had been closed before, but I guess I was wrong. As you're a mod, I thought my interpretation of the policy had been correct.
 
@James Neither do I. :P
 
Except sloths.
 
6:04 PM
@OrigamiRobot Got attacked by a pack of dogs as a kid.. I simply dont trust them :)
 
FAE
If it had been wrong, I thought I would've received a stern talkin'-to
@James That is a shame. :( I <3 dogs.
 
@FAE I like dogs I know and am used to.. I will never trust a dog I do not know.. cats I know or dont know ... amuse me :)
 
@James To be honest, I never understood this logic. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say your fear is invalid.
 
FAE
@James My b/f's grandma's cat is evil.
@OrigamiRobot "Once bitten, twice shy"
 
@OrigamiRobot I have never been chased down by a pack of cats and trounced just for walking by them and then running away (Doberman are fucking FAST).. simple as that
 
6:07 PM
@James I mean I don't understand how getting attacked by one animal makes a person afraid of all animals of that species.
 
@OrigamiRobot And adults telling me 'Oh they are just puppies' and 'Oh they are just playing' means I now no longer trust any dog cause I dont like how they 'play' and especially puppies :P
 
It does not compute.
 
Wasn't until later in life that I learned my parents told me things to keep me safe as opposed to things that were true ;)
 
Some individual animals are mean. Cats and dogs. I understand being afraid of the specific animal that attacked you.
 
But some things just stick with you.
 
6:10 PM
@James Like what? "All dogs are mean."?
 
@OrigamiRobot Even if a dog isnt mean its still going to hurt me maybe?
 
That is scientifically true. All dogs long to sink their teeth in your buttocks.
This happens in 200% of all children movies, so it must be true.
 
Clearly I was told it wasnt being mean.. that didnt help the fact that I was all cuts and sctraches from head to toe though does it?
 
@James See if you got attacked by dogs and someone told you something like "That's how dogs play.", that is a very understandable reason to be afraid of dogs.
 
If you just get your leg raped however... ducks
 
6:12 PM
5 mins ago, by James
@OrigamiRobot And adults telling me 'Oh they are just puppies' and 'Oh they are just playing' means I now no longer trust any dog cause I dont like how they 'play' and especially puppies :P
 
@badp I take it you and ducks have a dark history
 
@BenBrocka I've spent a hour talking about ducks to a bunch of people just yesterday.
 
@James I thought you meant in other instances because it did not occur to me that someone would say that to a child who has been attacked by dogs.
That's pretty messed up.
 
@OrigamiRobot Hehe, I have made it a point not to let dogs catch me since then.. some of them have gone away with a whimper.
 
> If I see a bird and it walks like a ducks and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck and get the fuck outta there.
That last bit is often neglected, but still very very true.
 
6:14 PM
@badp Ducks and geese are notoriously known for being mean.
 
FAE
@James Geese more so than ducks.
 
Geese are jerks
 
@James Well, unfortunately, being afraid of dogs isn't particularly helpful in keeping dogs away from you :/
 
@OrigamiRobot On the other hand of things, friend of mine had two dogs, a black lab and a st bernard.. Awesomely trained and I have a lot of fond memories of those guys :)
 
I was attacked by geese once.
 
6:15 PM
@FAE Swans
@James I can't stand people who can't keep their dogs in line.
 
Is there an easy way to search for questions and answers with votes less than a number? votes:n is for votes n or more...
 
I was writing in jest but I can confirm the bit about geese. Well, my sister can more than I do.
@Stephen Data explorer
 
@OrigamiRobot His dogs were so well trained we never kept them tethered
Hell, I distinctly remember his dog getting bumped by a car
and the driver was all like OMG I am So Sorry!
And Rick turned around and yelled at the dog for being near the road, the dog immediately dropped his tail and hung his head
 
What can I change the tags to on this thing to get rid of ?
 
LOL. My mother just complained to my father: "Look here: you put the bitter here, without a cap, so it fell out." I heard "twitter" instead of "bitter" and was puzzled for a minute there.
 
6:17 PM
Turned to the driver and went "Nope, his fault, he knows not to be near the road"
 
@badp Watch me n00b out here on ya ... where do I find the data explorer? :)
 
@StrixVaria ?
 
@badp I don't understand it with "bitter"...
 
@Ullallulloo A bitter drink? for aperitif?
 
@OrigamiRobot Whether it should stay open aside, what tag should I use?
 
6:17 PM
@StrixVaria I was wondering that myself. We don't have a "company" tag or anything...
? Though they don't only dev for iOS
 
@badp Thanks
 
@StrixVaria ? Honestly I don't know.
 
Just give it
 
@StrixVaria fixed?
 
6:19 PM
@badp Sure.
 
FAE
@StrixVaria I have no idea what tag you'd use in that situation
 
Current quest is to kill , so things that get rid of that tag are AOK.
 
@FAE I have no idea how that question is even open. wasn't even an appropriate tag.
 
The question doesn't look too bad to me.
 
Same for this tag:
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Q: Which was the first game with bullet-time?

lalliThe first game I played, which had bullet-time, was Max Payne. Was there any game before that to have a similar feature?

 
6:21 PM
If I were to contact Gaijin about ITD Germany in further length than just a tweet I'd most likely ask a very similar question
 
@BenBrocka That should just be outright deleted.
Based on the precedent @JuanManuel set this morning.
 
@Stephen For this particular use case, the API is probably easier.
 
5 hours ago, by StrixVaria
According to @Oak's comment on the now-deleted question, this and possibly this (but I'm not 100% sure about the second one) should also be closed/deleted.
 
@TimStone I wish I could see the look on his face as he opens the link, expecting a nicely formatted view of questions and stuff.
 
@StrixVaria shrug don't care about the Q, just the tag
 
6:22 PM
@badp No, screens of text are sort of what I've come to expect :)
 
Oak's comment mentioned this meta post
 
@FAE Don't get me wrong; I agreed with you. My point is that I'm not going out of my way to find questions to close. :)
 
@badp Well, that's true. There's no [Post Link] for the API. :P I suppose this view would have been more civil.
 
@TimStone Would I use &user=10260 if I only want to see my results?
 
Well that Q is now the last one with so do with it what you want
 
6:24 PM
@Stephen may I suggest then a simpler solution
 
@Stephen Different route. I think it's something like /users/{id}/questions?<query-string> for that case.
 
Go to your questions and answers lists, sort by votes, look at the last page
 
FAE
@RavenDreamer Maybe you can articulate the issues better than I could then, though I think LessPop's planning a meta post or something.
 
badp's way is definitely simpler for that case though, if you just want it at a glance.
 
It does use a little more jQuery too.
So it's more correct, in a way.
 
6:25 PM
@badp Yeah that's what I've been using, I was using this as a learning opportunity :-)
 
Oh, okay :)
 
@badp the q&a pages I mean.
 
True, true.
 
Most of my stuff below 2 votes I've tried editing already ... just not giving up yet.
 
This is what I was trying to avoid.
 
6:26 PM
just be aware the API returns no jQuery at all, so it's likely to be full of undocumented browser-specific bugs or whatnot. Beware
 
@StrixVaria And now it's done instead of a thorn in our side for days
 
@StrixVaria gah
 
FAE
@StrixVaria Yyyyeah, just saw that.
 
@BenBrocka It wasn't going to be a thorn in anyone's side.
 
FAE
@BenBrocka Well, we usually do like, 5 at a time or so, so we don't push off our currently active questions.
 
6:27 PM
I was only bringing up the 2-3 problem questions.
 
@BenBrocka Now our homepage is all about trivia. Nice business card we've got there :P
Quickly, edit ALL THE OTHER THINGS
 
It's only that way for a few minutes. Long term it's better to fix things all at once so nothing gets forgotten
 
It's actually going to take a day or so.
 
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Q: I cannot unite the Geth and Quarians, do I support Legion or Tali?

StephenI started a new game in ME3 which means that I have already failed in the preconditions for uniting the Geth and Quarians. Should I support Tali or Legion from a war assets/other game considerations point of view?

 
@BenBrocka You can't forget it if it's still got the trivia tag...
 
6:29 PM
@StrixVaria Yeah, I just had to yell at a friend yesterday for that.
 
And weekends are the peak activity periods on the site.
 
Granted, he was doing it for a contest, not removing stupid tags
But the effect is the same!
 
user30
@Ronan I almost passed on that one.
 
@RonanForman were you able to salvage my commentary?
 
6:33 PM
@ThomasMcDonald You almost typed it.
@OrigamiRobot yes, but then lost @Blem's
 
user30
I was going for monocle
 
@RonanForman I only care about myself.
:P
 
Would anyone be upset if I posted a list of 5 q's or a's that I think are worth looking at again (or might have been missed in the almost 900 questions on ME3) either here or on meta?
 
@RonanForman I meant to delete the drawing and accidentally sent it. It's not finished...
 
@Tristan NO! Our streak!
 
6:36 PM
@RonanForman MULTIPLY
 
I was going to try and guess it.
 
Too late
 
@Stephen Here's fine, IMO. Meta might be weird
Assuming its contest related
 
FAE
@Sterno I don't think it'd go over very well on meta
 
@sterno It is ... I know it's a touch tacky campaining for votes but I think this game's content has been really well covered already ... just odds and ends coming up until some DLC :)
@fae Fair enough, that's why I asked.
 
FAE
6:41 PM
@Stephen Look at it this way, if there wasn't a contest going on, how well do you think it would be accepted to post questions that you wanted more votes on on Meta? I dunno, I don't think people would like it. :/
 
@fae Perfectly right.
Is there a way to escape links so that they won't blow up into massive chat screen spam?
 
@Stephen Post them all in the same post.
 
@Stephen if you post anything other than a link in a post, the onebox won't happen
 
Ok, here's the list I think are worth looking at rather asking anyone else to sift through my low voted stuff.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/54181/10260
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/57701/10260
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/57710/10260
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/55644/10260
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/57696/10260
And thanks everyone for your patience. I mean when I'm re-reading a walk through to see if I can come up with something we all missed you know I'm trying :)
 
@Stephen good luck
 
6:47 PM
@blem Thx.
 
got my civic duty badge from upvoting there :)
 
@Stephen @DaveMcClelland got an upvote out of that.
 
0
Q: How to Enchant Un-Enchantable Items

Jimmy ChenI recently came across the map which had an enchanted Blaze Rod and Book. I'm not sure if SPC helps to cover this. I've scoured the forums, and nothing seems to clarify this. How can one enchant an un-enchantable item (ie, Blaze Rod, Book, Paper, etc.)

 
user30
photo stream is convenient
 
It looks to me like the answer is no by definition
 
6:55 PM
@StrixVaria be careful what you read into things... I don't know if we can make a general case off of that question... it was asked 6 months ago and had no votes and no answers, that's why I deleted it so easily
 
@sterno I'm glad :) If anyone's q's or a's there deserve an upvote I'm glad they get them.
 
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Q: Do my squad mate's outfits affect their stats?

StephenWhen I change my squad mate's appearance before a mission, does it affect their stats in the same way that changing my armor gives different bonuses? Is there a list of the different choices?

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Q: How to Enchant Un-Enchantable Items

Jimmy ChenI recently came across the map which had an enchanted Blaze Rod and Book. I'm not sure if SPC helps to cover this. I've scoured the forums, and nothing seems to clarify this. How can one enchant an un-enchantable item (ie, Blaze Rod, Book, Paper, etc.)

 
@murgatroid99 Depends how strickly "un X able" is enforced, sometimes games let you kill "unkillable" people in specific/story related ways
 
@Sterno That Geth/Quarian question actually had a lot more meat to it than even I thought since we beat to death how to get the best possible ending out of that scene
 
@JuanManuel Fair enough. That's why I haven't spent a ton of effort complaining about that question.
 
6:57 PM
@Stephen Yeah. I saw his initial answer and actually almost downvoted it, but when hitting your links I saw his new one and upvoted
 
I retagged it and it's forgotten for now.
 
All I'm saying is that I didn't want to set a precedent... that doesn't mean you're wrong though
 
@BenBrocka Then it should probably be edited to something like "items that cannot normally be enchanted", since the question as it reads can only be answered with "you cannot enchant things that you cannot enchant"
 
True
 

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