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OrangeSoda posted:I'm pretty sure that guy with the dragon avatar owns and regularly wears no less than 5 different fedoras. That guy makes me want to get into Second Life just to gently caress with people like DJ Cookie and the Dovahboy. 
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White Dog Eggs posted:Back when Ultima Online was still a big deal I made a female character for the sole reason of getting free stuff, I named my character Charlotte and I would just hang around the big bank in Britan and wait for someone to say "Are you a girl irl?", I'd answer yes and neckbeards would just give me stuff. A fair few shitlords would also ask for pictures, so I would ask for payment first (One guy gave me a deed to a massive house and 4 large ships deeds if I promised to send him "sexy pictures of you Back in high school I played a Valkyrie themed character in City of Heroes. I even put in my profile that I was a dude irl, but it still didn't stop me from being hit on all the time by creepy guys. I milked it for all it was worth in terms of getting in game items. Then I'd get the requests to cyber. I made it a point to never initiate it myself, but if they did I would hesitantly play along. Then at some point where the words were getting hot and heavy I'd respond with something like "fully aroused, I can't stop myself from shoving my hard cock down your throat." If I could find a way to convert nerd rage into electrical power the US would still be running off of that stockpile.
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D34THROW posted:That guy makes me want to get into Second Life just to gently caress with people like DJ Cookie and the Dovahboy. Prepare for disappointing consequences.
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Blackheart posted:Those second life videos are pure gold. Some of the people playing sound... really old? which one is that specifically?
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Soylent Pudding posted:Back in high school I played a Valkyrie themed character in City of Heroes. I even put in my profile that I was a dude irl, but it still didn't stop me from being hit on all the time by creepy guys. I milked it for all it was worth in terms of getting in game items. Then I'd get the requests to cyber. I made it a point to never initiate it myself, but if they did I would hesitantly play along. Then at some point where the words were getting hot and heavy I'd respond with something like "fully aroused, I can't stop myself from shoving my hard cock down your throat." If I could find a way to convert nerd rage into electrical power the US would still be running off of that stockpile. I tried doing this during a trial period in vanilla WOW, making a female account to see the responses and how far people would go with ERP, then seeing their reactions when they realised they were cybering with a dude. That's how I learned about people having a futanari fetish. So... stories of griefs backfiring on the griefers, I guess?
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D34THROW posted:That guy makes me want to get into Second Life just to gently caress with people like DJ Cookie and the Dovahboy. Unfortunately, responses like that are exceedingly rare. The community is extremely paranoid and exclusive, and getting banned from a parcel, or plot of electronic real-estate that make up the game world, is just about the easiest thing imaginable. Most people will just boot you from their land at the slightest provocation, and for every single responder, 1000 will just send you off without saying a thing.
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StevenM posted:I tried doing this during a trial period in vanilla WOW, making a female account to see the responses and how far people would go with ERP, then seeing their reactions when they realised they were cybering with a dude. That's how I learned about people having a futanari fetish. So... stories of griefs backfiring on the griefers, I guess?  You poor bastard
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VanSandman posted:We should be friends. Sadly my email inbox seems to only goes back to 2003, so no  . I do remember that one guy got super-mad at me for "being a scamming and probably fat bitch" and would spam insults at me relentlessly if he saw me, this was great because a lot of other nerds would mindlessly white-knight me as I was a 'girl' so I got even more stuff!It got to the point where he was camping outside my house so he could kill me when I left, for a while I would just go onto the open balcony and hurl explosive potions at him then loot his corpse (he was a super high level so he always had really good stuff), but this only made him madder. Then a thought occurred to me. I left the house and let him kill me, I then ran to a shrine that was close, went outside my house and let him kill me again. I did this around 10 times, then paged a GM that this player was harassing me by calling me names and constantly killing me (he actually set a macro to say "DIE YOU loving WHORE" whilst casting a spell), 10 minutes later a GM shows up and the guy was so obnoxious that banned him (or he may have put him in jail, I cant remember) for a week. Never saw him after that. Another, and rather evil thing I used to do was to tame a few nightmares (super-tough fireball spewing horse things, they were stupidly hard to tame as you needed to max out about 3 skills, however I had no life at the time), walk into a crowded town and type "all release" which would set them wild again and they'd go on a killing frenzy. Me and a few friends actually held the town of Moonglow hostage for a while by doing this, until the GM's told us to knock it off anyway.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:which one is that specifically? This one. I love how he tries to deny the claims of pedophilia right after he calls a 12-year-old 'hot', and acts like being 17 is such a huge difference over being 18. IT'S TOTALLY LEGAL YOU GUYS 
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Nyyen posted:Unfortunately, responses like that are exceedingly rare. The community is extremely paranoid and exclusive, and getting banned from a parcel, or plot of electronic real-estate that make up the game world, is just about the easiest thing imaginable. Most people will just boot you from their land at the slightest provocation, and for every single responder, 1000 will just send you off without saying a thing. Not sure what it's like now, but years ago the admins on Second Life completely pandered to the weird shut ins that played the game and would ban players over anything that could be remotely construed as griefing. I remember reading about a bunch of goons dressing up in mob outfits with guns and pretending to take over a casino and pubbies throwing a raging fit over it and reporting everyone. I tried the game out almost a decade ago when there was an SA presence and never got into it. The SA area was a sprawling eyesore that filled other players with rage because it wasn't some super serious recreation of the sad lonely fantasies of shut ins. I dont have any of my own pics, and the Second Life Safari videos don't work anymore but it was an impressive 'town' SA built. http://www.somethingawful.com/second-life-safari/secondlife-history-pictures/1/
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Now I have aspirations of finding a nice little town and stinking it up by hardcore roleplaying a filthy hobo and seeing how much I get in L$. If anything. I remember reading about SL in Popular Science back when it was new. Interesting idea for a platform, could've really gone somewhere, but it got taken over by weirdos. 
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I dunno, this is also pretty funny. It's why my favorite conceit is 'secretly an Alien and Ripley's not here.'
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FuzzyPickles posted:I remember reading about a bunch of goons dressing up in mob outfits with guns and pretending to take over a casino and pubbies throwing a raging fit over it and reporting everyone. Yeah, those were good years for stories coming out of SL. I feel like the grief potential really went downhill when they started allowing private rental of entire islands, since you couldn't be the next door neighbors from hell anymore. The goon shenanigans around John Edwards's presidential campaign stand out as a really funny example of what was possible when people couldn't just buy their own private island empire. I also remember reading about some exploit group who targeted the grossest erotic zones, crashing their parties and eventually crashing server regions. This was around the time Linden decided to release the source code to the client.
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FuzzyPickles posted:Not sure what it's like now, but years ago the admins on Second Life completely pandered to the weird shut ins that played the game and would ban players over anything that could be remotely construed as griefing. I remember reading about a bunch of goons dressing up in mob outfits with guns and pretending to take over a casino and pubbies throwing a raging fit over it and reporting everyone. Second Life Safari was one of my first experiences of SA as a site. To this day their adventures through a bondage club as members of a star fleet away team, and the video where the guy had a script that made him spam shitloads of gremlins still cracks me the gently caress up.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Yeah, those were good years for stories coming out of SL. I feel like the grief potential really went downhill when they started allowing private rental of entire islands, since you couldn't be the next door neighbors from hell anymore. The goon shenanigans around John Edwards's presidential campaign stand out as a really funny example of what was possible when people couldn't just buy their own private island empire. In order to insulate themselves against the outside world people can just buy private areas? Second life really attracts a special kind of pathetic. So some guy had this beautiful house next door, and a river ran through the border between his place and ours. On the W-Hat side of the river was the cotton candy factory. The inside of the factory was what could be described as a gore covered assembly line where sheep were fed down a conveyor belt to be chopped up and packed into boxes with the 'crazy machine' music from Looney Tunes playing on constant loop. On the outside the factory belched smoke into the air nonstop, and had pipes going into the river spewing out pollution. This include whole barrels of toxic waste that you could ride down the river. The barrels flowed past a bread truck that was backed up next to the river with the rear doors open. The back doors of the truck continuously sprayed out an enormous number of empty plastic six pack rings into the river, and around the truck and in the river are dead and dying fish and dolphins with their snouts stuck in the beverage rings. On the other side of the factory was this billboard:  Behind all this was giant robots, the death star blowing up the twin towers, and gaudy, technicolor mayhem. If I remember right, the guy next door eventually removed the windows on the that side of his house. Edit: I only played for a couple days, I don't really have any of the good stories, unfortunately. I should probably dig through archives and read the old threads for kicks. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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FuzzyPickles posted:In order to insulate themselves against the outside world people can just buy private areas? Second life really attracts a special kind of pathetic. If I was that next door guy I would make a huge glass window on that side of the house with all the furniture facing outside
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I only tried SL once. I logged in, irritated chatting people for a bit by pestering them, just regular stuff. Then I go to another hub, and I meet a special gentlemen. He gives me two things: A giant penis roughly as large as my avatar, and a humping motion. I proceed to utilize these two things to get kicked out of as many places as possible. I then uninstalled and never tried it again.
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:irritated chatting people
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:I only tried SL once. I logged in, irritated chatting people for a bit by pestering them, just regular stuff. Then I go to another hub, and I meet a special gentlemen. He gives me two things: A giant penis roughly as large as my avatar, and a humping motion. I proceed to utilize these two things to get kicked out of as many places as possible. I then uninstalled and never tried it again. I'm pretty sure you achieved as efficient an entertainment experience as possible in SL anyway.
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:I only tried SL once. I logged in, irritated chatting people for a bit by pestering them, just regular stuff. Then I go to another hub, and I meet a special gentlemen. He gives me two things: A giant penis roughly as large as my avatar, and a humping motion. I proceed to utilize these two things to get kicked out of as many places as possible. I then uninstalled and never tried it again. In my head, the guy who gave you those items was a really dapper looking English gentleman. "I say, you appear to be new to our fair land! Allow me to equip you appropriately, so you that you might integrate into our society." 
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Dug up the old threads in archives and there is a quote that pretty much nails SL. "I've said it a million times, but SL is a wonderful but inherently crippled idea. Build anything you want, but heaven forbid if you dare offend someone's delicate sensibilities.. even if they're on your land in an "adult" zone. Realistic dolphin cocks for hot gay dolphin on dolphin action? A-OK! Dress up like Charlie Tuna and frown menacingly at people engaging in said dolphin sex? BAN." Edit: Oh my god, a Saddam Hussein Going Away Party, http://www.sluniverse.com/snapshots/126462.jpg FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Regalingualius posted:Out of curiosity, do you happen to have any particularly memorable instances of this? Nothing out of the ordinary for the thread, though I'll tell a standard story to paint you a picture. One thing you have to understand about old UO was that when you died, you basically lost everything on you. If you could reclaim your corpse before someone else did, you'd get your poo poo back, but realistically it was gone. Well, as a murderer, death happened. A lot. Your name was blood red and exactly as big a target as you'd expect. A lot of the time someone would just get salty and try to attack you without knowing what the gently caress they were doing, but occasionally you'd run into someone who was pretty good and had some hardcore gear, or just blunder into a 2v1 or 3v1 situation. A lot of money goes through a murderer's hands because of all the poo poo we get from the people we kill, but at the end of the day we're still generally pretty poor because all we've really got is pride. Like I said in an earlier story, usually we'd end up just giving our loot away or destroying the gear in front of our victims as best we could because it'd get taken from us next time we died, which could be in an hour for all we knew. This attitude gave us the capacity for some tactics the carebears didn't expect. Anyway, when you're a murderer, you very commonly have a cheap 'pawn' character, an innocent that can act in your stead. You couldn't enter towns as a killer (the guards would gently caress you up PROPER), and you still wanted to know what was going on. One day I was walking around Britain on my pawn and found this one dude very publicly trolling for an in-game wife to share his wealth with. He was tossing out gifts to all sorts of female characters - mostly consumables like packs of potions or whatever, things that everyone used but weren't hugely expensive. I watched him for a bit, then caught him paying particular attention to a black-skinned female avatar. My theory was that dark skin was a particular thing of his, so I paid particular attention to what she did. She gave him an 'ew, no' response and started to walk off. I caught up to her and asked her if she'd like to help me gently caress that guy up. She was immediately interested, and I told her to go back and act interested, and specifically ask if she could get seven different houses to bed him on the seven days of the week. This was a bit of improvisation on my part, but it worked beautifully. It took him a bit to get the deeds together, and during this time I was meeting a member of the gang for what we simply dubbed a 'spike'. A spike was just a cheap as gently caress newbie dagger that we coated in the most vile loving poisons we could manage. At this time in the game, a grandmaster poisoner could spit out some poisons that would VERY quickly kill a man. Unless they could get to a cure potion in under 10 seconds, they were hosed. You don't need to get medieval on a guy's rear end, you can just scratch them with a spike for 1 damage and smile as you saw *DOUCHEBAG BEGINS TO CONVULSE AND VOMIT UNCONTROLLABLY*. So I show up as the guy is saying he'll fill the estates with seven different styles of bed for seven styles of love and generally creeping half of Britain out without ACTUALLY saying anything pornographic and violating ToS. I very calmly walked up to him and slashed him with the spike. Guards show up and butcher my rear end in like half an eyeblink. It becomes obvious that the guy is panicking because he starts running around a bit, then he just keels over, dead as a doornail. The woman he was macking on immediately starts looting his corpse, and the onlookers rush in like a pack of vultures to pick it clean as well. It was only a couple of seconds before everything this dude had, including deeds for seven decently sized houses, were gone and people were scattering to the four winds. The dude melts down at me, of course, and basically calls me every name under the sun that I'd already heard a million times. He swore bloody revenge, and I even told him my main murderer's name so he could try to take it sometime. The issue is that most murderers made their day to day out in the deep wilderness, with at most a little shack to store spare gear. We never saw the guy again, probably because he was too scared to actually come hunting for us. This, again, happened all the time. Carebears knew that the wilderness was dangerous, so they'd take a ton of steps to never expose themselves to too much risk. Telling him my name and my normal hunting grounds so he could find me was doomed to failure, because I normally hunted on roads that people, you know, actually traveled. Jerks like him rarely even stepped out of town, they just portaled everywhere. Would've been great if he did though. Even if he killed a couple of us, we only need to kill him once to really hurt him. Our gear could be replaced pretty trivially with the exception of our mages' spellbooks. The woman thought it was the funniest thing she'd seen in forever, and thanked me profusely. I think I was out a pair of shoes that someone overzealously stole off my corpse while trying to loot the douchebag. All in all, A Good Day. That was probably the one we inflicted the most monetary loss on someone like that, since I'd had the presence of mind to try to recruit the accomplice, and she was devious enough to want in. Suiciding on a dude with a spike was pretty common, though.
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This is part grief, part exploit. When dawn of war 2 came out I played pretty regularly with goons. We were all pretty good so pub stomping was easy. One day I was just sitting on steam not doing anything and one of them messenged me to get on asap. I log in and they explain the plan. I was to paint a tyranid army a curious combination of red and pink. Really gave that authentic red rocket look. We all were to be ttranids and build nothing but ripper swarms with a hive tyrant commander. Dawn of war was like company of heroes, no real base buildin or resource gathering. Instead you captured points around the map and just upgraded buildings at your HQ. The more points you captured the faster you gained resources. There were a few strategic points that needed to be held until you gained enough points to win. Ripper swarms were the most basic and cheapest tyranid unit. They did weak melee damage but were very difficult to kill. Furthermore the hive tyrant commander could get an easy and cheap upgrade that allowed you to reinforce the swarms out in the field. Normally as a squad takes damage they lose members. To prevent complete destruction you have to retreat the squadto your HQ and reinforce them there. We utterly stomped pubs harder than ever. Spamming nothing but rippers meant we had a lock on the early game because ripper swarms could capture points. Mid to late game the hive tyrant could get a venom cannon upgrade that had huge range and chewed through vehicles. Add to the fact that we would spam chat with "RIP AND TEAR. FOR THE RIPPEROR!" meant that the rage we induced was beautiful. Swarms of hard to kill units that never had to retreat backed up by a guy that could two shot most tanks was unstoppable. Within the week ripper swarms were patches to be unable to capture points
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D34THROW posted:That guy makes me want to get into Second Life just to gently caress with people like DJ Cookie and the Dovahboy. I like how the dragon guy stays in his dragon voice initially and ends up whining in his regular voice.
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I was playing Killing Floor with my girlfriend today on KF_WestLondon, and some very clever dude managed to lock us all out of the traders spot (you only get 1:00 to get to the trader and pawn your guns and by new guns, before a new wave of zombies come to kick your poo poo in.) So half of us got to the trader too late and ended up selling our stuff and not being able to buy new stuff. We got revenge by locking him in, and getting him killed by the boss on the last level.
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Turtlicious posted:I was playing Killing Floor with my girlfriend today on KF_WestLondon, and some very clever dude managed to lock us all out of the traders spot (you only get 1:00 to get to the trader and pawn your guns and by new guns, before a new wave of zombies come to kick your poo poo in.) So half of us got to the trader too late and ended up selling our stuff and not being able to buy new stuff. This shouldn't be possible, they should have fixed the trader blocking issue a while back.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Back when Ultima Online was still a big deal I made a female character for the sole reason of getting free stuff, I named my character Charlotte and I would just hang around the big bank in Britan and wait for someone to say "Are you a girl irl?", I'd answer yes and neckbeards would just give me stuff. A fair few shitlords would also ask for pictures, so I would ask for payment first (One guy gave me a deed to a massive house and 4 large ships deeds if I promised to send him "sexy pictures of you I've never played a female in any game, largely to avoid that sort of thing. I would not deal with it well. However, we recently had a bit of... drama on Team Fortress 2 of the sort that would only happen if initiated by a female, because men overreact to it so much in a way that they would not towards another dude. Having said that, I think that the lady in question (we'll call her Linda - name's changed to protect the melodramatic) is very much trying to kick up a storm... for what reason, I have no idea. Basically, Linda is someone who plays in our group regularly in the few months since I came back. A few days ago, she friended me on Steam, which was of a great surprise to me as she is sometimes very unpleasant to me in game. Not in the fun, buddy-buddy, slag-each-other-off-for-giggles way (I would enjoy that), but mocking me for not being higher on the scoreboard (she's a pretty good player, I am not). I just ignore it because I'm not 12 and don't care how good I am at a free-to-play hat simula... I mean cartoon shooter, but I was surprised that she friended me. Forgive and forget, I thought, so I accepted. So, two nights ago it comes to light that she defriended a bunch of people very suddenly. I checked my list and, sure enough, she cut me loose also. I had a lot of fun that night, but people would not shut up about why she defriended them and on and on and on. I am ashamed to admit that I got caught up in it for about 5 minutes, even calling her out in allchat, but I very quickly realised that it was either an elaborate troll on her part or just a sad bid for attention and/or need for childish drama. I shut up because I knew that talking about it was only reinforcing the behaviour, but she kept going on about a bunch of "lonely guys getting sad because a woman rejected them." That element is definitely there, but it was pretty obvious that she was enjoying herself for whatever reason. I am staying a mile away from this, but with the vast majority of the server regulars being male and she being perhaps keen to milk it, this might go on for a while. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Vib Rib posted:That's not really a grief, that's more like just drama between you and your friends. Seriously. I'm starting to think people are forgetting the purpose of the thread, which tells me it should probably go unless others can convince us otherwise.
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Louisgod posted:Seriously. I'm starting to think people are forgetting the purpose of the thread, which tells me it should probably go unless others can convince us otherwise. How about that cool Ultima Online story Coolguye posted just up the page?
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This thread could be UO stories only and it would still be great. I wish it was still in its glory days or I played back then.
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God forbid there's an actual funny thread, better close it up since one guy posted bad.
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Repost of an old story because it made me laugh like a maniac when I read it again last night, the story of a sentient banana peel wreaking havoc and taking over a SS13 game.Angry Diplomat posted:The Doom Peel Angry Diplomat's SS13 stories are all amazing. My favorite is definitely the one about the monkey - "I WONT LET YOU DOWN CAPTAIN" never fails to make me grin Magres fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Hmm, you guys are right, my opinion couldn't have been at all influenced by years of interaction with this thread. Not at all. Anyway, point is that the thread seems to attract more drama and bad posts than it does entertaining stories. I'm all for keeping it open so by all means, keep the griefing stories coming. Needs more Second Life grieving videos.
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charliezzz has a whole bunch of great SL videos, but I can't stop laughing at the special ending to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVS4tX0iP00&t=6m41s e: This hasn't been posted yet, Esteban and Jesse stalk a small gang of 'real-life' vampires. I like how in the span of a minute one girl goes from saying they should be banned for griefing to a sudden reversal of "I love you Esteban" and apologizing about her friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knnV0iTrXNg&hd=1 Sanctum fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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One of the better stories to come out of the last SS13 threadDr. Cogwerks posted:Welp, I got myself permabanned from another strict-RP server.
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Catbeasts I need to remember to always call furries that, even if they're not cat furries
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