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Alright... After a bit of retrospect, I've got another WoW griefing story, this time from back in the days of BC. My horde guild, for some reason or other, had an event going on at the entrance of the Deadmines (or, more accurately, the town above the mini-dungeon you had to get through before entering the instance proper). At the time, I was playing as a blood elf Protection spec pally in her... Mid-40s, I believe? = Anyways, we were chilling out, not really doing much, when some guy comes running through the Defias Traitor. To give a brief run-down: Back in pre-Cata WoW, there was a fairly long quest-chain in the zone for Alliance, which culminated in a quest to kill the last boss of the Deadmines for some pretty good low level loot. The step right before that one, however, required you to escort an NPC that was fairly weak to the entrance of the Deadmines. If he died at any point, you had to restart that quest over. So, naturally, we killed him just before the guy running him would've gotten credit. We laugh a bit as he goes back to restart the quest. Next time around, he's got help from a high-level guildie of his, who proceeds to curb-stomp us. In the process, though, I unintentionally stumbled across my method of griefing for the next hour or so: In a blind panic, I hit Divine Shield, which made one immune to damage for 12 seconds at the time. During that time, I decided to spite him somehow... And killed the escort NPC again. What followed was roughly an hour of the guy attempting to get the escort NPC to give him credit with a steadily increasing army of high level guildies... None of whom could dispel my Divine Shield. And thanks to being Prot, it'd come off CD juuuust as they were coming into view again. Ditto for the time waiting to rez at my body. Sadly, it never got to the point where he made a level 1 alt begging me to stop. 
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bucketmouse posted:Do custom maps created entirely to piss off players count as griefing? If so I've got some interesting stuff to post. I hope they do so then I can post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOiPpQSmkA WARNING: gets loud after intro title screen, so turn it down Fair warning: contains swastikas Which has probably already posted, but deserves a repost. I should see if I can get anyone with the recent update. Phraggah fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Jul 1, 2012 |
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Jul 1, 2012 09:35
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Phraggah posted:WARNING: gets loud after intro title screen, so turn it down
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Phraggah posted:I hope they do so then I can post this. There's also this modified achievement server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1Ay85de3U In TF2, achievement servers are generally custom maps made for the purpose of grinding achievements (for example, that map has a line of bots that respawn so you can get kill related "cheevs").
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Prince Abassi posted:(the original comment is located here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2886637&pagenumber=218&perpage=40#post401004782) Never thought I'd see you on here, I am your biggest fan! 
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Jul 1, 2012 13:29
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I'd walk around Northrend decked out in the finest Holy Paladin gear and tempt the PvP fools into attacking me, and then I'd whip out my heals and be like bam, one flash of light and I'm back to full health, whatcha gonna do? Submit to the holy light is what. Wearing down people decked out in PvP gear always amused me. If I can keep up the heals on Patchwerk, well, you simply don't stand a chance. Hit me, please, yes, more. What? You're stunned? Oh gee, you can't even heal, can you? Oh man. What? Yeah, I'm still following you, slowly wearing you down, and you better not come back either, for I am overpowered healatron. "WRRRRRY BUT I AM WEARING SEASON BLAHBLAH THIS IS BULLSHIT WRRRYYY" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 1, 2012 13:48
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You sound like a cool guy.
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Jul 1, 2012 14:25
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Doc Hawkins posted:You sound like a cool guy. Two days registered and already a custom red title. VV 
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Jul 1, 2012 14:33
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Roobanguy posted:Two days registered and already a custom red title. I'm sure he's been registered longer than that. ... Oh, you meant forum registration.
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magicaldinosaur posted:I'd walk around Northrend decked out in the finest Holy Paladin gear and tempt the PvP fools into attacking me, and then I'd whip out my heals and be like bam, one flash of light and I'm back to full health, whatcha gonna do? Submit to the holy light is what. Wearing down people decked out in PvP gear always amused me. If I can keep up the heals on Patchwerk, well, you simply don't stand a chance. Expert trolling right there. You probably think raping people is trolling, too.
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Jul 1, 2012 14:45
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Everyone taking red title as truth . I'm not sure who is being griefed here but it feels so fitting.
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I judge people, not by the color of their title, but by the content of their posts.
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Comic posted:Everyone taking red title as truth Well, I'd change it but it's as you say, it's interesting to see who might take it seriously. Somebody did pay $9.95 for it, so I'll honor their butthurt by using it awhile longer. But hey, my Holy PLD griefing isn't fun? I thought it would be. 
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magicaldinosaur posted:But hey, my Holy PLD griefing isn't fun? I thought it would be. It's very clearly not as interesting as your reg date + title. Mediocre at best, probably would've been unremarkably skimmed over if not for you being you. I'd add a story here but the closest to griefing I've come lately is by calmly agreeing with all the insults a kid threw my way as he decided I was playing tf2 incorrectly. "Noob." "Yes, I am new.  " "u f2p" "I haven't paid to play this game in quite a while, yeah." "stop sucking" "Immediately, sir." It infuriated him a lot, and with over 1000 hours in this game over the years I will take my amusements where I can get them. The truth of the matter was that I was beating him soundly.
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Comic posted:I'd add a story here but the closest to griefing I've come lately is by calmly agreeing with all the insults a kid threw my way as he decided I was playing tf2 incorrectly. "Noob." "Yes, I am new. A month or two ago in Team Fortress 2 I had a fellow tell me to watch out a video involving me going up on Youtube, because I'd spent several rounds just loving with him. It had started with a friend and I just goofing off before the round actually started, saying "Bless this team and bless this round" followed by "Umbasa" being said in various tones and lengths. Then the fellow I mentioned to start with piped up with an incredibly nasally voice and yells into his mic "OH MY GAWD GET LAID". I still have no idea if that voice was faked or not, but he never actually changed it the whole time so if his entire schtick was an elaborate grief where I thought I was talking to the uber-nerd stereotype he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. I don't say anything back simply because I was so amazed by his voice, but I end up on the other team to him halfway through that round thanks to auto-balance and we're both Sniper. I killed him with a body-shot and almost as an afterthought typed "Get laid". For that I copped some abuse back about how it didn't mean anything because it was a body-shot, and that he had more head-shots than I did points. I was happy to point out that he hasn't head-shot me yet and immediately switched my Sniper gear to the "immune to head-shot" set which Valve created seemingly just to gently caress with other Snipers. Thus for the next few rounds whenever he managed to kill me (while I was constantly covering him in piss) I would declare it didn't count because it was a body-shot, in spite of his insistence that now it counted because I was immune to head-shots. He threw out a lot of the usual "YOU'RE JUST MAD" taunts but every time he spoke on the mic it was impossible to take him seriously and I just kept reminding him he hadn't head-shot me and that I was so pro he never would. After a time auto-balance once again had me on the same side as him, and I declared I was going to go Demoman and protect him from enemy attacks to show there was no hard feelings. Except when the other team actually turned up I turned and charged away while he got destroyed. He switched teams after that but I decided to stay as Demoman because I was having fun. In the end after one more round where I reminded him that I had more head-shots on him than he did on me (I had beheaded him in melee once) he made the Youtube video remark and the server erupted into so many people yelling at once at him I was sure I was going to buffer overflow. After that he shut up and everyone got along fine again. Sadly no such video ever went up, or at least I haven't found it yet.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Expert trolling right there. The funniest part is that it's a complete fabrication. Without wearing the pvp gear and getting the pvp stat (resilience) he would probably die in 3-5 seconds against a player with decent gear. To add content, this is the tale of the incredibly deadly dancing tree and his friend, the also incredibly deadly dancing paladin. WoW pvp was notorious for killing fun gimmicks because billy complained on the forums. This is a story of one such gimmick. Druids had a buff called thorns. It would deal minor damage to people who attacked you. Paladins had an aura buff called retribution aura, which did the same thing. Both these abilities were considered mostly useless, as the damage returned is minor, and in the case of the paladin, who may only use one aura, there were much better choices. My friend and I proved them all wrong. (well not really, but we sure annoyed some people). My druid was specced restoration (healing, can turn into a kickin rad tree) and my friend paladin was specced holy (also healing). There were talents both of us picked up that made both thorns and retribution aura considerably better, but still not that great. Combined, however, it became hilarious. If a person attacked us, they would take about 400 damage from thorns, and 450ish from ret aura. 850 or so damage a attack, give or take a hundred. For reference, players in pvp gear had about 25k hp, worse geared players (our prime target) had much less, sometimes less than 18k. This became especially hilarious against classes that hit quickly, such as rogues. Considering rogues probably had the highest percentage of players who think they are god's gift to WoW, hilarity ensued. Our strategy was sit in the enemies base in wintergrasp (a pvp zone) and dance. Enemy players would run up to us, attack us, and kill themselves by attacking the dancing tree. If we ever starting taking damage that concerned us, both of us were very capable healers, and just healed it away. This was especially annoying to our attackers because druid healers use heal over time abilities, so I would cast a couple HoTs, then resume dancing as my health refilled. The amazing part about this is how many people did not realize why or how they were dying, and would continue to attack us, sealing their fate.
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bucketmouse posted:This is really hard to pull off correctly and it requires a sub-50 ping. Okay I've read the description, I've watched the video a million times. What am I looking at here?
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MageMage posted:Okay I've read the description, I've watched the video a million times. What am I looking at here?
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Dragon's Dogma is an RPG that has no co-op or PvP, it's multi-player is in the form of creating and customizing a single main party member (called a Pawn) and hiring 2 other Pawns that other players have created. Now, when you dismiss a pawn you hired from another player, you can optionally send the user an item as a token of your appreciation, including quest items. I will get back to this. There is a shop in the game that allows you to create forgeries of any item in the game and buyback quest items you may have accidentally sold or discarded. Most forgeries of items function exactly the same. However, magical and quest items do not (unless you bought it back instead of forging it). For example, you can give someone a forged Ferrystone which is the game's only (and expensive) means of fast travel. It's also magical. When they use it, it falls to the ground uselessly. So, essentially, you can make forgeries of items that will probably end up loving them over in some way, and there are even some quests that have bad endings if you give them a fake quest item. Unfortunately, you will rarely ever see or hear of any of the resulting hijinks, but griefing still exists in this game. There's also a boss fight you can apparently grief other players in by getting yourself killed constantly on purpose, thus healing the boss for everyone fighting it since it has the same health bar for everyone playing in online mode, but I haven't gotten that far into the game yet to know for sure.
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Double Monocle posted:Hilarity I played a fairly rare raid boss ready to tank protection pally. This was fairly hard to get considering that the developers really didn't intend for protection paladins to tank raid bosses, but I managed. If I remember correctly, it took 102% evasion to take crushing blows off the table, which was the biggest killer for raid boss tanks. Crushes where something like triple damage then normal and it was supposed to be a mechanic to force healers to pay attention in otherwise boring encounters. But really it just made all "competitive" raids require you to be over geared to tank anything. Anyway with all this gear to make it so I either block a hit for nearly no damage, or dodge/parry outright. I was for lack of a better word, invulnerable to melee damage. This became hilarious when you take into account that there was a talent you could take that would let you attack twice with your weapon, which made me attack like dual wield class with the added benefit of a shield. Stacked with that there was a weapon attack based skill that would heal you when it landed. With all this combined I threw myself into the middle of raids against the alliance. I would hang out in the front of the only 10 man raid at the time, Karazan. It was hilarious having swarms of rogues, warriors, hunters and other paladins swarming around me trying to crack my shell and slowly kill themselves for their trouble. I think the most people I took on at one time was around eight rogues and three or four warriors. They chewed on me for around 45 minutes before getting killed off one by one to my slow-cooker like damage. The one thing that stuck out in my mind though was an hour and a half battle with a paladin on the other side that had almost the exact same gear as me. I faced him while fighting over a rare spawn mineral node out in the middle of a zone I usually had to myself. After nearly the slowest pvp battle known to man, he got a mage friend out there to throw down some magic. Still took them a half hour to kill me.
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Comic posted:It's very clearly not as interesting as your reg date + title. Mediocre at best, probably would've been unremarkably skimmed over if not for you being you. This is some of the best kind of griefing, +5 if the person in question starts raging hard you when all you did was agree with him.
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Fun game to play on Doomsday in TF2. What you're supposed to do on the map is get a case to a rocket, ride an elevator next to it up to the top, and put the case in the rocket. If you get killed while holding the case, it drops and he elevator starts going back down. After a set time with no one on your team picking the case back up it goes back to its spawn point. Most people are stupid so you'll usually be the only one at the spawn point if you know the case is going to respawn. Now on the map, there's a death pit behind a health pickup. The fall is long enough to either kill you or trap you til you suicide if you survive. The game is to take the case, run straight to the pit, and suicide in it. See how many times in a row you can do it before someone catches on. My record is 5 before someone on the ENEMY team noticed.
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Speaking of TF2, no one cares about battle medics anymore.  I hopped on a few games, and the most I got was "lol battle medic". That's it. I dunno, maybe it was because I was doing really well [like way better than normal and I can usually do alright for a medic who's trying to kill people] but no one seemed to care. Is it the end of my favorite grief? Or do I just need to find that elusive server full of armchair TF2 generals?
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Prince Abassi posted:DarkRP Admin Abuse Stuff I just want to say that the Accounting Anarchy videos had me laughing hard and I have no idea why. Watching your Admin abuse videos for some reason is really making me want to be an admin on a server just because I know I would be better than those guys. I don't care enough and don't frequent any servers enough, though 
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Fun game to play on Doomsday in TF2. According to a friend apparently on launch day the killzone was only a flat surface above the bottom of the pit. You could get the intel as a spy, dead-ringer into that pit and survive, drop cloak, grab the intel and just chill out down there. Also if the top of the missile is open you can slamdunk the intel into it with a rocket/sticky jump. People get very angry about this.
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Finally caught up to this thread after months of reading, such a great thread. So to contribute, I want to share my story from Metal Gear Online. During the last few days of its existence, I played a few games on Team Deathmatch. One of the DLC available for the game allowed you to play as characters from the game if the server had the option available. The only one I ever got to play as was Revolver Ocelot, the main villain who was an old gay cowboy enthusiast. I loved playing as Ocelot because one of the weapons he had was called "Guns of the Patriots", which was just him pointing his fingers at you like a gun and shouting "BANG!" every time you tapped R1. The fingerbang actually did fire however, and if Ocelot hit you with it all of your weapons would be temporarily disabled, only allowing you to use knives or CQC (melee, essentially). Ocelot also had a skill called CQC EX, which meant he was immune to all CQC attacks from the front and he could knock you unconscious with a single blow. I used to gently caress with people in a large variety of ways, I'd disable people on the enemy team, run straight up to them, knock them out, then just stand atop their bodies constantly shouting "BANG!". When they got back up, I'd just repeat until I got bored or someone killed me. I could also use this to grief my own team, since I'd also follow my teammates around shouting "BANG!", being useless and giving away our position to pretty much everyone. And as one last "gently caress you", Ocelot had a hidden skill where if his team lost at the end of the game, he'd hack the game and add an extra 5 minutes to the game clock, allowing me to "BANG!" more people. I miss MGO
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CharlestonJew posted:Finally caught up to this thread after months of reading, such a great thread. That sounds like it would have been a sight to behold! I never played any of the MGS games, is Ocelot actually a fruit or is that just Snake and Otacon? If so then I can imagine that would only compound the rage of being harassed by a homosexual on the internet.
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duffath posted:That sounds like it would have been a sight to behold! I never played any of the MGS games, is Ocelot actually a fruit or is that just Snake and Otacon? If so then I can imagine that would only compound the rage of being harassed by a homosexual on the internet. The entire Metal Gear Solid series is calculated to appeal to nerds while being as homoerotic as possible. In Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake disguises himself as the enemy commander's gay lover, but gets discovered because his junk isn't right when he gets groped. Vamp is called "Vamp" not because he's a vampire (although he does drink blood), but because he's bisexual. Snake and Otacon live together and are raising a daughter. Ocelot is totally in love with Snake (well, Snake's father, but I guess he figures he's close enough). There's also a whole lot of gynophobic subtext paired with reverence for guns and the occasional sword (both classic phallic symbols). I'm pretty sure the entire point of the series is to make its target audience feel really, really uncomfortable.
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Male Man posted:The entire Metal Gear Solid series is calculated to appeal to nerds while being as homoerotic as possible. In Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake disguises himself as the enemy commander's gay lover, but gets discovered because his junk isn't right when he gets groped. Vamp is called "Vamp" not because he's a vampire (although he does drink blood), but because he's bisexual. Snake and Otacon live together and are raising a daughter. Ocelot is totally in love with Snake (well, Snake's father, but I guess he figures he's close enough). There's also a whole lot of gynophobic subtext paired with reverence for guns and the occasional sword (both classic phallic symbols). Holy poo poo. I... I never realized any of this, but it all makes sense now. gently caress. Mind blown. Also MGO isn't around anymore? I remember I tried playing it about a year ago but I got as far as patching it before I got frustrated and did something else.
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Doesn't Otacon also bone his sister, for bonus creep-factor?
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Dick Burglar posted:Doesn't Otacon also bone his sister, for bonus creep-factor? He was boning his mother, he nearly let his sister die because of it though.
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Dick Burglar posted:Doesn't Otacon also bone his sister, for bonus creep-factor? Stepmother. While his sister was drowning in the pool out back.
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Coolguye posted:Stepmother. While his sister was drowning in the pool out back. She survived, though, unlike his father, who committed suicide by drowning in the pool when he discovered his son was banging his wife.
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CharlestonJew posted:Finally caught up to this thread after months of reading, such a great thread. Griefing people by making them unable to play was like the only way I was able to have fun with MGO before I stopped playing. I had a big effort post awhile back in this thread about a similar thing I discovered years ago with CQC and magazines, but this almost made me want to see MGO again so I could do stuff like that.
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Male Man posted:The entire Metal Gear Solid series is calculated to appeal to nerds while being as homoerotic as possible. In Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake disguises himself as the enemy commander's gay lover, but gets discovered because his junk isn't right when he gets groped. Vamp is called "Vamp" not because he's a vampire (although he does drink blood), but because he's bisexual. Snake and Otacon live together and are raising a daughter. Ocelot is totally in love with Snake (well, Snake's father, but I guess he figures he's close enough). There's also a whole lot of gynophobic subtext paired with reverence for guns and the occasional sword (both classic phallic symbols). Also, MGS4 has a bit where it focuses completely on Old Snake's lovingly crafted rear end. The last fight between Snake and Ocelot is incredibly, incredibly homoerotic.
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"There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber..." - Revolver Ocelot, MGS1
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robodex posted:Also MGO isn't around anymore? I remember I tried playing it about a year ago but I got as far as patching it before I got frustrated and did something else. It got shut down in June.
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That sucks. Was MGO the game where you could CQC people unconscious and then drag them to the edge of a cliff so that when they stood up they'd fall to their death? I remember giggling hysterically at my roommate's obsession with doing that and the rage it would create. Regarding the TF grief maps, I decided I'm just going to make a proper effort-writeup on them one of these days because I've got a huge collection and as far as I know most of them aren't documented anywhere aside from the occasional youtube video with a name like 'weird tf2 map' or an imageless upload to one of the modding communities. I also tried to get a video of that clipping issue with the missile in doomsday, but apparently it got patched already. This didn't though, and I got called a racial slur for it! Mission complete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cAuF4JHPco
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Dick Burglar posted:Doesn't Otacon also bone his sister, for bonus creep-factor? Nah, she wanted him to though.
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Slime posted:Also, MGS4 has a bit where it focuses completely on Old Snake's lovingly crafted rear end. The last fight between Snake and Ocelot is incredibly, incredibly homoerotic. Not only is it it a slow-motion barechested man-grapple, but Ocelot can grabs you in a CQC hold that you need to tap a button to escape. If you don't, he Also, there were several jokes about Raiden's cock in MGS2, and an entire scene where you're forced to run around totally naked while holding your junk with one hand. I think MGS is at it's best when it goes off on hilariously goofy benders like that. Edit: And by 'tap a button' I mean wiggle a stick. Which is displayed by a gyrating stick icon right over a character's crotch. 
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