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spirkbitch · 9 months

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everyone else might already know this but i just think it’s funny that canonically The Cage takes place in 2254, so over 10 years before the start of Kirks first 5 year mission as captain. while SNW takes place around 2258-2260

(with the reveal of Carol Marcus being pregnant it would make most sense for it to be 2259 seeing as TSFS takes place in 2285, which would make David Marcus 25 at the time that movie takes place)

anyways, then the beginning of TOS is in 2265, and here’s a visual representation of why i find that funny (using spock as an example because he’s my favorite)

Spock and Pike circa 2254

Spock and Pike circa ~2258

and then back to Spock looking like this in TOS circa 2265 (Where No Man Has Gone Before was the second pilot but The Man Trap aired first so idk which takes place first in canon so here’s both)

also i know most people are probably just gonna ignore it but i would love to see an in-universe explanation for why the hair and clothing styles changed so much between snw and tos.

#star trek #star trek tos #spirk #tos spirk #tos spock #tos #spock #leonard nimoy #star trek snw #like in star wars there’s an in universe reason for the prequels being so much crisper than the original trilogy #i don’t know the whole explanation but star wars is my brothers special interest so i know some #i like the movies im just not all into it #anyways it’s be cool if the explanation was just that our modern 10-20 yr fashion cycle held up #like we had late 60s to mid 80s we’re all big hair and bright colors #then the late 80s to mid-late 90s were muted grungy styles #then back to bright and fun and show as much skin as you can in the 2000s #then the fashion cycle started to speed up because of fast fashion #so then the 2010s were more conservative business casual vibes (still bright colors tho)#and then late 2010s to early 2020s it’s been a way more rapid fashion cycle #anyways i’m done ranting about fashion now i think

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tha-wrecka-stow · 2 months

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Anthony Hamilton Discography

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mikeywayarchive · 1 year

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10/18/20 // @ avoidalmond on Twitter

#mikey way #fans #twitter #2020 #oct 2020 #10/18/20 #photo #originals

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dylanrosales25 · 3 months

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chatretr0 · 4 months

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Amphibia Deleted Scene

Scene: Cane Crazy #1

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kiwikipedia · 1 year

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some of the more Modern History Servants have descendants who were alive when humanity was destroyed so if that’s not something to think about man

#ie: florence nightingale's descendant who knows she's being portrayed as big tiddie anime woman in fate #also Li Shuwen's adopted son's son(?) is still kicking though Li Etang died in like 1960 #I think Tesla has a grand nephew but no direct descendants #AND TECHNICALLY #when humanity was destroyed in the Grand Order which was like late 20-teens Geronimo's great grand son was still alive (though he's now gone #as of 2020)#gone?? he passed away idk how to phrase that #anyways i think its funny #just as funny as Li Shuwen dying and then waking up like 10 years later from the Big Nap for the Redline war #fgo #fate #kiwiki speaks #fate grand order #fate go

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whatudottu · 9 months

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Hot take: the Ben 10 fandom and the NSR fandom are pretty much complete inverses of each other when it comes to what kinds of characters they simp for.

Ben 10 has tons of sexy aliens to the point of literally featuring an entire species of buff leotard-wearing cephalopod people that you think would attract alienfuckers by the dozen, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the basic white boy and white girl.

NSR has an entire boy band of conventionally attractive anime boy robots who outright flirt with the female playable character, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the DILF cyborg war veteran with a screen for a head and the space-themed forty-something DJ with a bowling ball for a head.

The NSR fandom said 'those old men can GET IT' and fucking ran with it so hard that it's the most written about romantic relationship (going by ao3 stats) by almost 50 give or take if you're reading with an account or not- honestly? 'Round of applause, y'all really meant it, those old men CAN get it!

But I suppose it might be helped due to the more 'boss rush' style presentation of NSR, being a game centered mostly around who you fight rather than who you fight as. More time is proportionally spent in the media (game in this case) actually focusing on characters like DJ Subatomic Supernova - representation of the self-centered DJ - and Neon J - representation of boybands and specifically as the manager - and getting a comparably significant amount of focus; space themed object head has an ego so dense it LITERALLY causes a singularity (and causes spaghettification) and war veteran cyborg ordering around troops with protocols.

With Ben 10 god I fucking wished more people simped for Tetrax, bestie is just such a cool fucking character let alone how he was introduced and thus executed, but as a show with MANY iterations we kinda need to have a central cast (that gets narrowed down eventually into a central character). Whoever wears the Omnitrix - the one main driving force of the series - is essentially forever a main character, and that character just so happens to be Ben Tennyson after one alien device did what it did.

Despite it's main focus BEING the aliens that Ben turns into - in addition to being a universe with an active alien presence - it never particularly set out to be more than anything other than a sci-fi alien flavoured action story, centered around a human boy (who probably gets his egg completely shattered only to crack an entire coop of eggs in the aftershock) walking only a few steps in other species' shoes. It was only rather late that the actual extraterrestrial exploration of the series really came around, at least in full force (SoTO my beloved 😫). Kinda hard for EVERYONE to simp for your favourite side character when you've got like... seasons worth of a mostly human main cast, lmao-

#ask #anonymous #no straight roads #nsr #ben 10 #i like babygirling old men because it seems like i'm investing (even if it's less my own relationships and more my own reflection)#(not that i can aspire to have the reflections of djss or neon j but like goals am i right?)#i am most certainly an example of the 20% of ben 10 fans to rotate like a microwave side characters #i mean for crying out loud i ship the andromeda 5 and that's 5 whole different alien species lmao #probably also a difference in audiences too lmao ben 10's been here for a WHILE and nsr's only been like 3 years?#i don't hear many kids talk about nsr (like kid kids- which on tumblr may also just be a narrow perspective)#not sure how a kid might access nsr without a parent going 'oh this game looks nice' and getting it for them #while ben 10 was throughout it's runs very much a kid's show #ya it had things an adult could enjoy but predominantly it ran on tv back in the day- easy access media for a kid #you can grow up with ben 10- nsr is nsr and came out in 2020 and isn't the type to need or warrant a sequel #idk why this answer became a study on media and audiences lmao this was probably meant to be a shitpost #and by probably i mean pretty much guaranteed i'm just not committing to absolutes in the off-chance i'm wrong lmao #have a ramble: on the house

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jjongolese · 1 year

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I made a playlist lol- (Yeah there’s no K-Pop, I just love this picture of Jonghyun.)

#spotify playlist #music taste #r&b #soul #afrobeats #hiphop #rap #drill #garage #grime #pop #reggae #90s #00s #10s #20s #1990s #2000s #2010s #2020s #jjongolese #Spotify

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ryansbedroom · 10 months

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#tumblr #new vs old #page #webpage #layout #design #2020s #20s #2010s #10s #facelift #comparison

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femme-malewife · 1 year

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So what if, and bear with me here, what if I made a fic...an actual novel-sized fic, ft Prince Aizou and Entertainer Yujiro?

Like a prince and jester kind of thing.

Am I basing this off of the fact I’m still not over that that one director wanted Aizou to play the role of royalty while Yujiro plays as his lover- a courtesan? Yes. Yes I am.

It would be sometime after my current multichapter fic, obviously, but what say you, fandom?

#im actually. considering. rn #when i saw that a novel is 40k words i became.#thoughtful.#and now the gears in my mind are Turning #i initially put the idea down for a oneshot #however theres so much potential content from that so i decided #it should be another multichapter fic #and since i have a novel word count in my mind i wanna try to challenge myself into writing...well...another novel #i have 3 novels on ao3 #2 dgr and 1 yttd #they're like . 20 - 25 chapters #but i wanna try to keep the length around 10 - 15 chapters and set a word count goal #that being said i havent written a novel length of shit since 2020...#anyway im getting off topic. im genuinely curious what yall think

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tha-wrecka-stow · 12 days

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Mikey Way interview with Jason Pettigrew for Alt Press | Oct 8th 2020

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Mikey Way is tired, but only in the best way possible. His infant daughter has a sleeping cycle of her own, and he’s been the doting father taking care of her. It’s the best kind of tired, showing love to your children. The My Chemical Romance bassist and Electric Century co-founder will be paying that forward further this Saturday. He’ll be hosting Mental Notes, the virtual concert show created and sponsored by the Hot Topic Foundation.

The event will feature performances from Black Veil Brides, Bishop Briggs, As It Is, DE’WAYNE, Bad Omens and the Word Alive, among many others. Proceeds from the event will go to Mental Health America, a mental health initiative offering counseling and other tools to promote mental wellness. Mikey Way is a perfect representative for the cause, openly discussing his travails and still succeeding in the seemingly fraught music business.

Mikey Way told Alternative Press what he’s been up to. In addition to his dad duties, he’s readying a number of comic book projects. The second album from his band Electric Century is slated for release sometime next month, with an accompanying comic. While there are some things he can’t divulge on the creative side, he’s incredibly passionate about mental health initiatives. He considers his participation in Mental Notes a learning experience he could use.

How are you doing?

MIKEY WAY: Sleep regressions and stuff like that. My youngest, she's been waking up at 5 a.m. You read all these blogs. There's all this shit where this is going to happen, that's gonna happen. One of them is that around the time of the cycle, the kid stops being good with sleeping and starts waking up in the middle of the night crying. You know, all this boring shit that I'm dealing with. And it's just fucking exhausting.

It's the best exhaustion you'll ever experience.

Yeah! I think it's worth every second.

What things are you working on? What’s the word on Electric Century’s sophomore release?

There are finishing touches going on the book currently, and then it's all being compiled and should be done within three weeks. As far as the music stuff goes, you know how that goes with any album. The longer you listen to it, the more you're like, “Oh wait, that's going to change. Just finishing touches, mixing and mastering.

I was reading an interview you did with a comics site regarding the making of Collapser. Shaun Simon was telling you essentially, “Forget about the deadline. Get it done earlier.” When it comes to comics and making records, is there more backpedaling involved? Like, “I don’t like that color. I don’t like that comic font.” Do you find that you backpedal more over one medium than another? Or is it a natural reaction for anybody to feel that way regarding any type of artistic endeavor?

I think by nature, artists are obsessive-compulsive. I feel like you're never really happy with anything completely. It's like someone looks in the mirror. They're like, “I don't like my hair. I don't like my legs.” You're your own worst enemy. I feel like that plays a lot into artistic endeavors. You're going to see stuff that you think is quote-unquote “wrong” that no one else would. It's the nature of the beast, and it pushes you to go. You're always going to tell yourself that something's not great. Even if it is, you don't. I feel like it's a blessing and a curse having something like that.

You’ve had a lifelong relationship with comics. At this point in your life, how has that changed? What do comics offer you personally? The idea of escape? Another creative extension? A platform to support visual artists who you really love?

I think what’s challenging about comics now is making something great in regards to how much great stuff's been done. Everything's been done if you break it down to the skeleton. It's more of a challenge now to do something great. Comics have been around for 80, 100 years. Making your mark now is harder than ever. I also feel like in the internet age, there are more opinions on it. Back when we were kids and an X-Men comic would come out, there wasn't a message board to scrutinize it. There’s more pain there, but there are also more people that enjoy comics than ever, which is great. If you would have told some of us 20 years ago the Marvel Comics movies would be bigger than Star Wars? Stuff like Umbrella Academy and Watchmen are some of the biggest shows on television. That's really cool.

But yeah, as a kid, it was all an escape. I just loved living in a fictional world and sticking with a character for years. There's this ongoing story that you can dip in and dip out and checking on these characters. And it still appeals to me. It's like comfort food for the brain.

I was just going to say that exact thing. How many comics do you have currently on the table in terms of things that you're working on?

I'm working on two other comics other than Electric Century. But the way that stuff works, [publishers] don't want you talking about anything until everything's solidified. But I've got stuff I'm really excited about in the pipeline, comic-wise. Now's the perfect time when the world’s hit a pause button. People are trying to figure new ways to make art right now, which is awesome.

So finishing touches on the second EC record, as well?

Yes. I'm very happy with the songs. Some of these songs were just simple voice memo demos. Some of these songs are four, five years old. We’d hoped to put some of them on For The Night To Control. Some of them kept the theme of the graphic novel. So we were able to unearth some tracks I really loved from that first go.

Both the Electric Century and Collapser comics touch on mental health issues. And you did mention the world hitting the pause button. As the host of Hot Topic’s Mental Notes livestream event, you’ve got a well-rounded experience with how mental health is of paramount importance.

I feel like it's very important right now in light of what's happening. You're going to be sad. With what we're going through scientifically, politically and socially, you're going to be sad, like maybe a couple of times a week. For some people, that's just life. Then for other people, it's brand new for them. You know, they've never been sad before. Or they've maybe never thought about it, or maybe they didn't realize what was happening. So I feel like this is a new spotlight on mental health. It sucks to turn on the news. Some days I don't. I try to avoid it as best as I can. I keep plugging in, as you need to be. But at some point, you have to disconnect a little bit for your well-being.

I would think that Apple would be making ridiculous bank. Because people throw their phones against a wall or something out of frustration. Then they realize by acting on that impulse, now they have to go and buy a new phone. “This thing is bothering me. Therefore, it has to die.” It’s the peril of extreme gratification, for sure.

We live in an era of extreme gratification. But exactly. Now more than ever, people have to look out for each other. People have to look out for themselves, as well. The people that are always worried about other people need to worry about themselves sometimes. You’re going to learn what you're made of right now.

How did you get involved with Hot Topic’s Mental Notes event?

Hot Topic reached out to me and asked if I would host the event. Which I thought was really cool and an honor. Because any time I can get involved with this subject, it's always a great thing for me.

I've been talking to someone since I was 17. Even before that, I was talking to friends and family. I always knew I was wired a little differently. The way things affected me were completely unlike other people I knew. I still see a therapist. Again, technology: You [look at] the glass screen of your phone, and your doctor’s in front of you. There are apps and all sorts of resources now to get connected. It’s a big step to get in a vehicle and drive to someone and just admitting out loud that something's not right. Now, maybe you can do a lot of this on the internet, and you can find somebody to talk to based on what's going on with you.

I've always been vocal about my mental health. During the course of my professional career, it's come up a couple of times. And I always did my best to just talk about it so people didn't feel alone. That's a big piece of how I like to pay it forward. I like people to know that you're not alone and there are millions of people like you. That doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. It doesn't mean you're sick. Everyone's different.

So you’ll be discussing your experiences with mental health?

I'm going to give people some direction to tools that they can use to combat some of the pitfalls that people with mental health issues are trying to deal with. Mental Health America [has] all the tools you need to get started. They can really know how to put the ball in your court and give you resources. It’s a good jumping-off point if you've never broached the subject with yourself.

Will you be performing in any capacity?

I'm not. I'm doing something that, honestly, I've never done [before]. And I think doing this will be good for my mental health because I tend to be more of a private guy nowadays. So doing something like this is out of my comfort zone. Maybe I'll discover something about myself doing it, which I think is useful. [Laughs.] What’s that saying? “Life begins outside of your comfort zone.”

Mental Notes starts at noon PT Saturday, Oct. 10. Get tickets in advance here.

#mikey way #kennedy way #shawn simon #ec #self titled #collapser #comics/graphic novels #mental notes #mcr #return #interview #jason pettigrew #ap #2020 #oct 2020 #10/8/20 #text #originals

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If anyone wants to know why every tech company in the world right now is clamoring for AI like drowned rats scrabbling to board a ship, I decided to make a post to explain what's happening.

(Disclaimer to start: I'm a software engineer who's been employed full time since 2018. I am not a historian nor an overconfident Youtube essayist, so this post is my working knowledge of what I see around me and the logical bridges between pieces.)

Okay anyway. The explanation starts further back than what's going on now. I'm gonna start with the year 2000. The Dot Com Bubble just spectacularly burst. The model of "we get the users first, we learn how to profit off them later" went out in a no-money-having bang (remember this, it will be relevant later). A lot of money was lost. A lot of people ended up out of a job. A lot of startup companies went under. Investors left with a sour taste in their mouth and, in general, investment in the internet stayed pretty cooled for that decade. This was, in my opinion, very good for the internet as it was an era not suffocating under the grip of mega-corporation oligarchs and was, instead, filled with Club Penguin and I Can Haz Cheezburger websites.

Then around the 2010-2012 years, a few things happened. Interest rates got low, and then lower. Facebook got huge. The iPhone took off. And suddenly there was a huge new potential market of internet users and phone-havers, and the cheap money was available to start backing new tech startup companies trying to hop on this opportunity. Companies like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon either started in this time, or hit their ramp-up in these years by shifting focus to the internet and apps.

Now, every start-up tech company dreaming of being the next big thing has one thing in common: they need to start off by getting themselves massively in debt. Because before you can turn a profit you need to first spend money on employees and spend money on equipment and spend money on data centers and spend money on advertising and spend money on scale and and and

But also, everyone wants to be on the ship for The Next Big Thing that takes off to the moon.

So there is a mutual interest between new tech companies, and venture capitalists who are willing to invest $$$ into said new tech companies. Because if the venture capitalists can identify a prize pig and get in early, that money could come back to them 100-fold or 1,000-fold. In fact it hardly matters if they invest in 10 or 20 total bust projects along the way to find that unicorn.

But also, becoming profitable takes time. And that might mean being in debt for a long long time before that rocket ship takes off to make everyone onboard a gazzilionaire.

But luckily, for tech startup bros and venture capitalists, being in debt in the 2010's was cheap, and it only got cheaper between 2010 and 2020. If people could secure loans for ~3% or 4% annual interest, well then a $100,000 loan only really costs $3,000 of interest a year to keep afloat. And if inflation is higher than that or at least similar, you're still beating the system.

So from 2010 through early 2022, times were good for tech companies. Startups could take off with massive growth, showing massive potential for something, and venture capitalists would throw infinite money at them in the hopes of pegging just one winner who will take off. And supporting the struggling investments or the long-haulers remained pretty cheap to keep funding.

You hear constantly about "Such and such app has 10-bazillion users gained over the last 10 years and has never once been profitable", yet the thing keeps chugging along because the investors backing it aren't stressed about the immediate future, and are still banking on that "eventually" when it learns how to really monetize its users and turn that profit.

The pandemic in 2020 took a magnifying-glass-in-the-sun effect to this, as EVERYTHING was forcibly turned online which pumped a ton of money and workers into tech investment. Simultaneously, money got really REALLY cheap, bottoming out with historic lows for interest rates.

Then the tide changed with the massive inflation that struck late 2021. Because this all-gas no-brakes state of things was also contributing to off-the-rails inflation (along with your standard-fare greedflation and price gouging, given the extremely convenient excuses of pandemic hardships and supply chain issues). The federal reserve whipped out interest rate hikes to try to curb this huge inflation, which is like a fire extinguisher dousing and suffocating your really-cool, actively-on-fire party where everyone else is burning but you're in the pool. And then they did this more, and then more. And the financial climate followed suit. And suddenly money was not cheap anymore, and new loans became expensive, because loans that used to compound at 2% a year are now compounding at 7 or 8% which, in the language of compounding, is a HUGE difference. A $100,000 loan at a 2% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, accrues to $121,899. A $100,000 loan at an 8% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, more than doubles to $215,892.

Now it is scary and risky to throw money at "could eventually be profitable" tech companies. Now investors are watching companies burn through their current funding and, when the companies come back asking for more, investors are tightening their coin purses instead. The bill is coming due. The free money is drying up and companies are under compounding pressure to produce a profit for their waiting investors who are now done waiting.

You get enshittification. You get quality going down and price going up. You get "now that you're a captive audience here, we're forcing ads or we're forcing subscriptions on you." Don't get me wrong, the plan was ALWAYS to monetize the users. It's just that it's come earlier than expected, with way more feet-to-the-fire than these companies were expecting. ESPECIALLY with Wall Street as the other factor in funding (public) companies, where Wall Street exhibits roughly the same temperament as a baby screaming crying upset that it's soiled its own diaper (maybe that's too mean a comparison to babies), and now companies are being put through the wringer for anything LESS than infinite growth that Wall Street demands of them.

Internal to the tech industry, you get MASSIVE wide-spread layoffs. You get an industry that used to be easy to land multiple job offers shriveling up and leaving recent graduates in a desperately awful situation where no company is hiring and the market is flooded with laid-off workers trying to get back on their feet.

Because those coin-purse-clutching investors DO love virtue-signaling efforts from companies that say "See! We're not being frivolous with your money! We only spend on the essentials." And this is true even for MASSIVE, PROFITABLE companies, because those companies' value is based on the Rich Person Feeling Graph (their stock) rather than the literal profit money. A company making a genuine gazillion dollars a year still tears through layoffs and freezes hiring and removes the free batteries from the printer room (totally not speaking from experience, surely) because the investors LOVE when you cut costs and take away employee perks. The "beer on tap, ping pong table in the common area" era of tech is drying up. And we're still unionless.

Never mind that last part.

And then in early 2023, AI (more specifically, Chat-GPT which is OpenAI's Large Language Model creation) tears its way into the tech scene with a meteor's amount of momentum. Here's Microsoft's prize pig, which it invested heavily in and is galivanting around the pig-show with, to the desperate jealousy and rapture of every other tech company and investor wishing it had that pig. And for the first time since the interest rate hikes, investors have dollar signs in their eyes, both venture capital and Wall Street alike. They're willing to restart the hose of money (even with the new risk) because this feels big enough for them to take the risk.

Now all these companies, who were in varying stages of sweating as their bill came due, or wringing their hands as their stock prices tanked, see a single glorious gold-plated rocket up out of here, the likes of which haven't been seen since the free money days. It's their ticket to buy time, and buy investors, and say "see THIS is what will wring money forth, finally, we promise, just let us show you."

To be clear, AI is NOT profitable yet. It's a money-sink. Perhaps a money-black-hole. But everyone in the space is so wowed by it that there is a wide-spread and powerful conviction that it will become profitable and earn its keep. (Let's be real, half of that profit "potential" is the promise of automating away jobs of pesky employees who peskily cost money.) It's a tech-space industrial revolution that will automate away skilled jobs, and getting in on the ground floor is the absolute best thing you can do to get your pie slice's worth.

It's the thing that will win investors back. It's the thing that will get the investment money coming in again (or, get it second-hand if the company can be the PROVIDER of something needed for AI, which other companies with venture-back will pay handsomely for). It's the thing companies are terrified of missing out on, lest it leave them utterly irrelevant in a future where not having AI-integration is like not having a mobile phone app for your company or not having a website.

So I guess to reiterate on my earlier point:

Drowned rats. Swimming to the one ship in sight.

#chrissy speaks #long post #-gestures broadly-

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