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13:01
... which only confirms your idea that a wolf costume named Okami has nothing to do with Amateratsu :P
I tried making biscuits & gravy like all the Americans said, but it was fucking horrible. Don't bother trying it. http://t.co/a4nW6BNYhQ
How dare you
wtf is biscuits and gravy?
The best thing ever
It looks disgusting but I don't like sauces
13:08
Oh that isn't...
Hold on
Silly Brits
Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the United States, especially in the South. It consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or sausage gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper. == History == American English and British English use the word "biscuit" to refer to two distinctly different modern foods. Early hard biscuits (North American: cookies) were derived from a twice-baked bread, whereas the North American...
Shouldn't it be "hourrible?"
To be fair, actual biscuits and gravy is kind of awful too
@Sterno horriuble
hourriuble
13:11
(I'm totally pronouncing horriuble as horrweeble btw)
anyone with a uk driving test before 15th july plz cancel it so i can book it, obviously at the right test center too ;)
@Sterno no
@Unionhawk wat
you guys are the @Unionhawk of breakfast
there aren't enough infomercials in the world to right your wrongs
they tried and they had to fill the whole screen with red
13:20
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Q: Can allies penetrate Reinhardt's shield with projectiles?

ExaReinhardt's shield ability creates a shield impenetrable for enemies and their weapons until 2000 damage has been dealt to it. Is it possible for allied players to take cover behind the shield and shoot through the shield from the "inside"? In case it blocks projectiles from both enemies and al...

it stopped looking like you were doing something wrong and it started looking like an horror movie, except real
@Derpy Ah, that makes sense
Mercury transit second best transit
(Sorry Mercury but Venus is better)
Who is venus? =p
Man, the votes on the movie night took a turn since last night. The only movie I care about went down 2 votes, and a movie I couldn't care less about went up 3.
It's some french translation of one of the heroes but
13:24
Guess I'll just be skipping again.
Damnit brain
IGNORE ME I MISREAD EVERYTHING @twobugs
@StrixVaria which one are you interested in?
@KevinvanderVelden Captain America.
I've already seen Star Wars 7 twice, and the other movies don't interest me.
I'm also interested in that one
I'm interested in Captain America and Mad Max
Star Wars would be decent but I'm in no hurry to rewatch it
i want to watch all those 3
but my life is busy
and timezones suck
13:28
Timezones worst zones
that and marble zone 2
I'll agree with that
That Starlight Zone or whatever from Sonic 1 (I can never remember the name) is the best though
I like when we get a support email back that is entirely in a different language :|
user15026
That seems very....supportive.
@twobugs Actually, I always found (Sailor) Mercury to be better.
This is probably grounds for the death penalty but I barely know anything about Sailor Moon
Other than the lady who wrote it married the guy who wrote Yu Yu Hakusho (and later Hunter X Hunter) and I can only assume swims in money like Scrooge McDuck
13:37
Mad Max is the best action movie I've evet seen
The only person I know who didn't like Mad Max is my dad who has basically the opposite in movie tastes from me
Which means I'm pretty sure I would love it
@ChromeSlice Have you seen Shoot 'Em Up?
Because that's pretty much the only action movie I've ever liked.
Action scenes tend to be the most boring scenes in movies unless there's something really novel going on, and Shoot Em Up really hit the mark every time.
@StrixVaria the novel in mad max is cars
sorta
and the interns have started
Chase scenes are the worst kinds of action scenes.
13:44
I havent seen shootemup but I heard it was great
it's not chase scenes
If you like action movies, you have to see Shoot Em Up.
per se
So, I've never worked with interns before. Are we supposed to chain them to their desks?
Even if it's not as good as Mad Max or whatever (I haven't seen that one), it's still way up there.
@Wipqozn No. You should just make yourself available to help them, guide them about what to work on, and check in with them regularly to see their progress.
And offer more guidance.
@Wipqozn not necessarily, a good heavy ball of iron also works
13:47
@StrixVaria I didn't think about the regular check in thing, thanks
Being an intern can be intimidating because everyone around you knows more than you about everything, generally.
(also I was joking about the desk chaining thing. We're actually paying them. I'm not sure if unpaid interns is even legal in Canada.)
@StrixVaria True
So just making them comfortable and making them feel valuable goes a long way.
The regular check in thing is a good idea. I imagine it can stressful to ask for help at first, but if you've got someone checking in every so often it makes it more obvious you should feel fine asking for help.
You don't want to overdo it like asking every hour though :P
13:49
Every. Single. Minute.
@StrixVaria yeah, you'd probably want to ask once or twice a day, maybe?
Probably depends on the intern. If you know they're having troubl with a task probably check in a bit more often.
@Wipqozn You can adjust it based on how well they're doing, too.
@StrixVaria yeah, if they're not running into many issues and are working hard you wouldn't need to check as frequently
or if you know they're perfectly comfortable asking questions
Knowing when to ask for help, and being comfortable doing so, is probably one of the trickier things when started out as a dev
Now I'm going to go pass out on my couch or something since I'm still sick from the weekend.
@StrixVaria shitty
13:53
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Q: Did I get the cards?

DeMizeToday while playing clash royale, I opened a golden chest but I got disconnected. When I again opened the game, my golden chest was not there. Did I get the cards that were in the chest? If I did not get the cards, is there any way I can get that chest back?

So reviews are coming in for Stellaris, saw this IGN one which got a poor rating. I was like "oh my", until I took a closer look
> Part of this is the fault of the overly passive AI. If they’re stronger than you, they might declare war. If they’re not, they don’t do anything. It took me 50 hours and three games, progressively raising the difficulty and giving a computer empire a huge buff before they declared war on me for the first time.
Always annoying when they get someone to review a game who doesn't understand how it's played
that applies to every PAradox game... because grand strategy and 4X aren't quite the same thing
like if you don't like it, that's cool, but reviewing a game as if it's a completely different genre doesn't even make sense
I mean, I kind of get that you don't just want a genre-fan to review the game and not get any other prospective. But yeah, it makes no sense to have someone like that review the game
you wouldn't review Fallout and complain it lacks a deathmath mode since "All FPS should have that"
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@Wipqozn Wait, so the complaint is that, like in real life, people more powerful than you push you around, and those less powerful tend to shy away?
I watched Scott Manley's first episode of Stellaris, and while I think it's probably a good game, it's just not for me.
13:56
@Sterno and also that they might not always declare war on you
For The Division I think it was, IGN had someone review it who just wanted the game to be something totally different (and, based on certain comments from his review, did not actually play the release...)
The thing about Paradox Grand STreygy games is that it's not like Civ where it's about "win the game!"
The AI doesn't even know it's playing a game
The games are focused on building empires and what not, it's one of the reasons folks get hundreds of hours out of them
@Wipqozn Can't tell if that's a good thing or bad thing, in terms of the the coming singularity.
ike in EUIV France was a fucking asshole who would normally go to war with you, other countries woudl be more passive and friendly. Just depends on country.
Or the Civ leader AI
And the "funny meme" of Gandhi nuking you
13:58
@Wipqozn I don't know. I see a lot of people complain about lack of multiplayer in games that were meant to be singleplayer only.
tl;dr grand strategy aren't 4X, although they are similiar
@Sterno yeah but people are stupid
Was it a Paradox game where the guy cross-bred his kingdom's royal bloodline with horses, and eventually got a horse monarch?
@Sterno If you can't d that now, I'm sure someone will mod in a horse race
oh wait
@Sterno yes it was Crusader Kings II, made by Paradox
Paradox games are basicaly giant strategy sandboxes
CK2 is a very silly game
14:00
This is what sold me on Stellaris:
> A few years later, another insult arrived with another list of demands attached. This time they wanted me to abandon even more planets and wanted to see me humiliated. I wouldn’t stand for it but after seeing precisely how much military power they were willing to hurl in our direction, I acquiesced and retreated to the naughty step.

The humiliation, previous iterations of which had involved a stern dressing down and a hit to happiness, involved the brutal murder of my democracy’s president, live on stage during a speech of surrender. Stellaris can be amusing but it can also be downright
Stellaris is probably the closet game to 4X they had
EU is the more serious take on it
@Sterno That sounds like it should be a mod.
@Sterno Yup, that's Paradox for you
@Yuuki nope, just vanilla PAradox
Another lesson of Paradox games is fuck comets
CK2 is also famous for this:
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14:03
@twobugs lolol oh paradox
@twobugs You don't know, there may be a second Roger a Muirebe
@twobugs I'm still not sure whether to consider that loyalty or not.
In other news, the moral of the story is I'm looking forward to further impressions of the game
Stellaris is definitely on my list
14:05
I'm just busy. So busy
Uncharted 4 tomorrow!
@Sterno Why did I even bother trying to click that link? I knew it would be blocked.
14:08
@MBraedley Try this one
It's not friday yet
@Wipqozn This site is really cool
(I'm assuming, I'm not clicking on a bit.ly link posted by @Sterno)
@KevinvanderVelden It's not a link to Friday
@MBraedley it's close enough
14:08
The review itself has lots of words, presumably of good quality (but not The Best Words)
I would never troll with Friday on a Monday. That would be horrible.
@twobugs Because it wasn't written by Trump?
Donald Trump has trademarked all the best words, just like how Paramount has trademarked the Klingon language
(They recently made that claim in a court)
@twobugs Actually, CBS AFAIK
Oh my, bad then
14:11
> Certain ethical codes will prevent you from enslaving members of your own race, which can speed production while reducing happiness, while others will prevent you from making certain decisions during event chains
@Wipqozn That sounds cool
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Q: How to freeze bombs?

DeMizeIs there any way by which I can freeze bombs that are about to flow. Can I freeze them with freeze spell. I am asking this question because i am about to attack somebody in war and I know where his giant bombs are. I need to freeze them for a little while because I am doing a hog attack and gian...

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Q: Monkey V Monkey (MvM) not working?

Jeffrey LebowskiIn BMCM (Bloons Monkey City Mobile) for Android, when I send bloons to attack other players, the game chooses a random player as my target, asks me the kind of waves to send and then gives me a couple Bloonstones for the attack. I never get notified about how did the attack end, nor I ever get an...

Nearly every riddle the social committee sends out makes me want to reply with this
This is their one from today:
> Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?
The answer is "yes, because a $100 bill is worth more than a $1 bill"
because "newer one" means "newer one dollar bill"
thats terribad
This is probably their worst one yet
14:22
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That dark place

Proposed Q&A site for questions with questionable origins.

Currently in definition.

1
Leadership

Proposed Q&A site for whoever is in a position to lead another individual or group

Currently in definition.

1
Ropework

Proposed Q&A site for all people who need reliable knots – bends, hitches, splices; be it for outdoor activities, crafts or just interest in the mathematical theory.

Currently in definition.

1
StackOverflow (in Hindi)

Proposed Q&A site for native Hindi speakers who want to use Stackoverflow in their language

Closed before being launched.

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment "how do i form babby?"
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Q: Siegward of Catarina quest can't find Catarina.

ZarathustraxSo, I open the cell before I did the part in the cathedral where you talk to him and give him the armor. The next step in the questline is rescue him from the cell, but I alredy open that cell before. Where can I find him?

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Isn't this the same as an earlier proposal? Or am I just going crazy?
@twobugs It might be the same thing, but you were already going crazy before.
Well yes
user15026
14:27
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment this seems way too specific to work.
user15026
Dear Greyhound putting an ad that perfectly obscures the text box on mobile chat makes me a sad me.
@AshleyNunn It does seem rather niche, but there may be enough content there. Also, the proposal doesn't fit nicely into any other site unless it's broken up.
No Stellaris pre-load :(
I should stream myself playing Galactic Hitman some time
I'd call the stream "Galactic Shitman" but that'd be blowing my joke payload in a single go
@twobugs Why the self hate?
14:38
@Sterno Who are you kidding? You wouldn't get to play it as soon as you got home, anyways.
It's @Unionhawk's fault, he re-gifted it from @Sterno
@fbueckert I could if I left work early!
@Sterno Be honest. Would you?
Probably
You can also use the website to start the download in your PC, if you're so inclined.
user15026
14:43
@MBraedley yeah, I get that. I just think that not everything ever needs/can support an SE site.
@AshleyNunn I didn't say it would prosper
huh, IGN Italy gave Stelaris a 9.3. I didn't relize IGN had different reviewers for different vcountries.
That rope se is an interesting idea
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Q: PLAYTBC.com opening?

hedgehogi have been waiting since the first day for the PLAYTBC to start up, and the hype was gone after the systems shutdowns and DDOS'es.... I cant get any info from the foroum, does any of you guys have any good information on when they will be starting the servers?

@Lazers2.0 This looks like a private server thing - close as illegal?
14:46
@twobugs Close as anything. I went for a more informational message.
Fair enough. It certainly seems to fit into a few categories
does overwatch end tonight?
Well, I'll do a few more games, if anyone wants to play on EU, hit me up
I believe they extended it one day
in other news:
I made a friend this morning
14:50
*aww*
You did a good thing @SaintWacko. I hope your friend is nursed back to health
user15026
@SaintWacko how did you make such a friend? :)
@AshleyNunn He somehow flew into the building at work. No idea how, you have to go through keycard-locked doors to get inside
Ninjabird
They had called an exterminator to get rid of him, and I wasn't going to let that happen
So I followed him around the floor until he knocked himself down on a window near me, and then threw my hoodie over him
Then carefully scooped him up in the hood and took him outside
14:52
@SaintWacko That's ridiculous.
@SaintWacko WTF?
@SaintWacko How to make friends: Wait until they knock themselves out, throw a hood over them and then quickly kidnap them
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An exterminator... for a single bird?
@KevinvanderVelden Well, when you say it like that...
You say you made a friend but I imagine it was still really frightened and unsure about you :P
14:56
@twobugs Well, it probably was animal control or something. I was just told "exterminator"
Anyway, I took it outside and as soon as I loosened my grip, it flew off to land in a tree :)
user15026
Good of you to rescue him!
Well. That guy really doesn't appreciate us not supporting private servers.
You are a good guy @SaintWacko
@SaintWacko is a saint
@KevinvanderVelden and he is a wacko
14:59
See my experiences with critters are pretty much limited to cockroaches at my last job. And it's tough to know what to do with them :P
Google triggers my inner language nerd
I've come across a lot of critters this weekend
Just set fire to to the entirety of it
14:59
@KevinvanderVelden Okay, @kalina
I was working out at the lake on Saturday, and I moved a turtle off the road on the way out there, then found a toad, a lizard, and a scorpion while I was there
Wacko is also a character from Animaniacs
Animaniacs is a kickass show
That and Freakazoid
Also, speaking of Fallout, I reinstalled Fallout 4 last night to try survival mode
15:02
Quality 90s animation
Wait that's with 2 k's
Wacko Facts Tonights, With Ardakoalaz
Haven't actually played at all yet, I spent the whole evening installing mods
I think I have 94 mods installed
Then I spent this morning customizing my character
Wacko's modern life
15:17
@ChromeSlice high quality songs are awesome. Almost magical.
@fredley ...is that an emoji rougelike?
Wow
Stellaris looks impressive
I should get it when I have money again
Do you already have overwatch?
> You are killed by a goat.
Noted, don't attack the goat.
15:27
@Evilardaozkal not really, it cheats by using a canvas
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Q: How do I use junk?

oKtosiTeI'm pretty new to this game and probably missing something really obvious, but I can't figure out how to use junk. That microscope would probably be useful in the medical bay, for example. What do I press to make it go?

also -1 not enough coconut
Hm, I need to get a better lunchbox. My current one doesn't really keep my food cold
@MBraedley Yeah, don't attack the buffalo either
pro much true core gamers can't take a game without coconuts seriously
15:29
@twobugs get a lunchbox made out of ice
Sure thing, let me just ask Mei
Since we're married, in real life
Dammit NASA bring back the SDO Mercury transit livestream
I need to know if Mercury stopped transiting because of Aliens or something
@fredley cc @Wipqozn
15:33
@fredley It crashes way to frequently in firefox :(
@Arperum it doesn't on me, but it lags HARD
@fredley Camels just aren't compatible with headphones
otherwise they'd be headPhones
I see what you did.
and well that was one helluva good dad joke
in other news: niceonedad.com
Oooooh, the other side of the bridge is interesting
Gets much more incremental
Scissoring so many camels
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woo our bee hotel is getting some use
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Q: Is there a way to avoid joining an online game?

David YellWhen loading the game, I usually hit 'All drive' and then I have to wait about 2-3 minutes for the game to load as it goes online and tries to find a game for me to join. I find this aspect of the game quite frustrating. Is there some way to play the game without having to search for and join an...

I'm just going to meditate my way out of this goat problem
Gah this is the first time I find myself too good to join a module
Paired independent self-study project work module. And I can't find a partner - because every time I showed someone my portfolio they'd slowly back away and tell me to find someone my own level
16:04
Is it that or the fact your portfolio is covered in ponies?
@MadMAxJr The amount of ponies in my portfolio is no more than two standard deviations from the population mean
good morning bridge
Does your portfolio possibly contain this? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/35?m=28681200#28681200
@Dragonrage morning
It is perfectly nominal
16:09
DON'T UPVOTE NOR DOWNVOTE ME PLS
+42 best
@Evilardaozkal how did you say I could change the location of where Windows Store downloads/installs stuff to?
@Chippies settings > system > storage
@Evilardaozkal in the store? because my settings has no "system" tab/button/group/anything
Stellaris is unlocked and currently installing cc @fbueckert @wipqozn
neither is there anything related to storage
16:14
@Chippies nope, pc settings
@Evilardaozkal ugh, 1) I forgot even forza is just an "app" 2) that's a really stupid place for a storefront setting 3) holy shit you can't even change the folder, just the drive
I was hoping that would lead me to where the game was installed
since the only folder that seems like could be the installation folder has a bunch of random letters and numbers in the folder name and all the files inside are lacking extensions. Pretty much as expected from what I had heard about Windows Store...
in other news, I wonder if I can get it to run on my toaster
it's a bit horrifying to experience it first hand though
@Evilardaozkal would it help if I told you I get occasional frame drops and even freezes with an [email protected], 24gb ram and r9 390? :D
on ultra ofc
and it's on an SSD
it's not very well optimized right now, at least not on ultra
and by frame drops I mean it runs at smooth 60 fps and then randomly drops to like 10 for a second
gt820, 8gb ddr3, i54210u. I guess I'll be happy if I can get 15fps on low on 800x600.
it actually reminds me of how effective gfwl was at killing framerate... I hope it's not the drm in this case and the performance bugs will be ironed out over time
16:19
nope
probably perf bugs
Try out other xbox games, they are fine
xbox games? or windows store games?
windows store games that have xbox backend
the only AAA titles exclusive to MS store that I know are Gears of War and Tomb Raider and both were released on console and PC around same time, iirc
I still don't understand the purpose of the file encryption though
windows store apps are in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
needs you to modify settings
store is based on mobile standarts, hence the encryption
afk
Work wifi FINALLY BACK
I had to do my job and it was horrible
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16:25
@Evilardaozkal huh, there's actual files there, that's promising...
16:41
Nodding support coming this summer
Dam keyboard
I feel like gnomephone
they promised modding support for games on //Build2016
coming with Windows Redstone which was announced to be coming this summer
The modding thingy was like steam workshop, well actually it was that. they sampled steam workshop mods on AoE2 running as Store app.
"Hey, we're trying to get this script working. It's having some issues - here's the code"
don't play on ultra, then
@twobugs "Hey, you
> attached is a screenshot of the code taken via someone's cell phone
@badp I have no idea what you're talking about
@ChromeSlice are you... replying to something I said multiple pages ago?
16:48
@Chippies i guess
mobile chat, scrolls far
also, why should I not play on ultra if it runs at constant fps 90% of the time? Clearly my PC can handle ultra
@Wipqozn @fbueckert I'M STELLARISING SO HARD RIGHT NOW
I wouldn't be surprised if it had same performance issues even on low
shitty oprimization sux
@ChromeSlice it does, but I can forgive it, as it is a beta
16:49
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Q: Does Stardew Valley have poweruser keyboard support?

djechlinI am not an experienced PC gamer but I am a software developer who tries to leave the keyboard as little as possible during the day. I've had a lot of trouble with this in Stardew Valley. The biggest pain point is rifling through the back half of my backpack. Some questions you can answer with ...

REAL quake pros run without textures, 1 player model, simple items, maximum overfov, and 9999 fps min
@ChromeSlice because it's playable and you get a better minimum framerate
that number may not be accurate.
16:50
ob
oh
seems excessive
Some people actually do run textureless if it helps them differentiate players
but they do play with just lightboxes, every model forced to be the same (possibly one of the easy to see, loud ones), etc.
plain textures do help in twitch shooters though
I haven't heard of FOV stuff though, at least beyond reasonable levels
hi user524096, you need 15 rep to chat. sorry :(
16:51
also doesn't fpses over 600 or smth cause what, coil whining?
in that screenshot all enemies use the same green and very loud model that I also chose
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Q: Pc is squeaking while playing Minecraft?

MoonEvery time I open Minecraft my computer starts squeaking a little. Did anyone of you have a similar problem or have a clue what could be the problem? This kind of behavior only occurs when playing Minecraft, all the other games run without any problems.

@Evilardaozkal I'm not sure why that would be a thing?
16:53
inb4 ban
easy to see, easy to hear, totally legit
@Evilardaozkal this seems like it has nothing to do with fps being over 600 and more about that his hardware, if allowed to run at full speed, makes noise
@badp Yeah I see this a lot for twitch shooters
ooooooooo
ctfs!
could very well be coil whine, but I don't see how fps can be related to it beyond the fact that the gpu is running at 100%
16:54
@Evilardaozkal no, unless you're trying possibly dumb stuff like monitor overclocking
you're just drawing a lot more frames to a buffer than your monitor can display
but then your monitor will pick the latest frame
I never got anything above 200fps so what can I know tbh.
I used to run the flat texture with the limegreen/red models
just was 'the way'
Text in Stellaris is pretty damn hard to read at 1440p
BIGGER FONTS, PLEASE
@Evilardaozkal I get 4000+ on some loading screens, my PC makes absolutely no noise
16:55
@Chippies lol?
why does it even try to go that high
@Chippies just googled and apparently some cards cause that whining issue. GTX970 was one of the cards.
@ChromeSlice doesn't take much power to draw a static image
@ChromeSlice because bad coding
yeah haha
maximum overfps
if you don't want 4000 fps don't disable vsync ~
@badp I think you meant the other way around?
16:57
@badp source engine only allows smth like 600fps max.
@Chippies nope
if you don't want 4000 fps don't disable vsync => if you don't want 4000 fps enable vsync
@Evilardaozkal okay, it took me a while with the triple negatives, but I managed to figure out this badp'ism
I also had to have a double-take as they call it
and I don't mind the 4000+ fps as my gpu hardly hits any utilization on those loading screens

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