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Its Back! Glad to see the return, Id.
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Nov 1, 2020 21:25
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Welcome back, Id!
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Nov 1, 2020 21:42
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Alright, glad to see that you're back at it!
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Nov 1, 2020 21:56
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Welcome back. I’m willing to not discuss the drama of your departure if that’s what you want. Again, welcome back.
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Nov 1, 2020 21:59
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You'll never escape from the <Combat Data>. Never. Nice to see you back.
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Nov 1, 2020 22:39
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It's back! Look, combat data is - yeah, I got nothing.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:03
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I dunno, combat data seems pretty reasonable to me. If you watch someone fight you can see how they fight and find improvements/weaknesses depending on whose side they're on.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:28
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Welcome back! May you reign for a thousand years.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:42
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Happy to see this return! Welcome back, Id.
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Nov 2, 2020 00:04
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You're back!
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Nov 2, 2020 02:59
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The whole combat data thing is an overplayed anime trope but it's absolutely how you would go about building a weapons system. You might have simulated it in software and run it through tests, but until you see how it acts in a real fight you don't know whether it works. There's a similar process behind designing self-driving cars.
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Nov 2, 2020 03:12
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Dark ID is back! SH:C Is back!! I'm so happy!!! In honor of this occasion, let's answer a small question. Definition of adamantine 1: made of or having the quality of adamant 2: rigidly firm : UNYIELDING adamantine discipline 3: resembling the diamond in hardness or luster So Blanca's new equipment IS made of diamond probably, but the name is being slightly hyperbolic, rather then literal.
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Nov 2, 2020 05:30
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Oh yeah, if you didn't know the lack of updates from here to now wasn't any Lowtax bullshit. I immediately ate poo poo super hard putting a bunch of heavy crap in an attic, like two days later when a step on the ladder up snapped and I broke the poo poo out of my wrist, tailbone and a few ribs with a concussion for good measure! Semi-fixed most of that. Except for the hand thing where pinky and ring finger don't work so good anymore. Made sitting down, playing video games, doing word processing and video editing extremely unpleasant a prospect for several months, as it turned out! Still not great. But we'll make it work!
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Nov 2, 2020 06:19
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Ooh christ. Glad to hear you're (mostly) recovered from that nastiness.
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Nov 2, 2020 06:53
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Yeah, hope you feel better soon. And welcome back.
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Nov 2, 2020 08:21
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The Dark Id posted:Oh yeah, if you didn't know the lack of updates from here to now wasn't any Lowtax bullshit. I immediately ate poo poo super hard putting a bunch of heavy crap in an attic, like two days later when a step on the ladder up snapped and I broke the poo poo out of my wrist, tailbone and a few ribs with a concussion for good measure! Semi-fixed most of that. Except for the hand thing where pinky and ring finger don't work so good anymore. Made sitting down, playing video games, doing word processing and video editing extremely unpleasant a prospect for several months, as it turned out! Still not great. But we'll make it work! It is good you are back but I certainly hope the next year is less cursed for you.
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Nov 2, 2020 08:59
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ImpAtom posted:It is good you are back but I certainly hope the next year is less cursed for you. Echoing this. I was actually just re-reading the Xenogears LP to escape election anxiety and it was a pleasant surprise to see this thread pop back up.
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Nov 3, 2020 04:20
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wow, welcome back!! i'm excited to see this starting again!  also yeesh that's extremely Cursed 
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Nov 3, 2020 04:35
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I clutched my tailbone in sympathy  glad to hear you're on the up-and-up
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Nov 4, 2020 09:52
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Welcome back, and ouch that sounds painful.ultrafilter posted:The whole combat data thing is an overplayed anime trope but it's absolutely how you would go about building a weapons system. You might have simulated it in software and run it through tests, but until you see how it acts in a real fight you don't know whether it works. There's a similar process behind designing self-driving cars.  At this point translators should stop using "combat data" because it simply doesn't work in English, but field testing is not this strange concept. It doesn't help that the guys gathering combat data in animeland never loving say what improvements they're considering after gathering that data.
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Nov 4, 2020 13:12
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Maybe they should just say it's "for the algorithms".
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Nov 4, 2020 13:43
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Look, sometimes you just need to stand back and watch so you can accumulate synergistic KPIs for your machine learning algorithm's training set.
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Nov 5, 2020 05:34
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Good to have you back, Id! And yikes, that injury sounded rough. But I hope you feel better, now!
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Nov 5, 2020 10:40
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Welcome back and glad you're relatively okay. Hope things get better from here.The Dark Id posted:My does my back and my fist hurt all of the sudden...? 1-5: "Why", "Magimel", "Sarah", "Pierre's", and "Sarah" 6th should probably be "Yuri runs in for a rematch" Guessing 7th should be something like "offspring shows up to protect their mama" 8th is kind of awkward, so maybe "there were three enemies in the cutscene and we just fought three enemies in the ensuing battle, it only counted"
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Zagglezig posted:Welcome back and glad you're relatively okay. Hope things get better from here.
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Episode XCV: Loose Lips Sink Ships.jpg)  Music: Hardcore to the Brain ~ Mid Boss in Japan .jpg) Time for a proper boss fight against the rampaging mutant dog infused with Nicolai magic juice -- Shoki. As stated earlier, Shoki is a beastie with 4550 HP and of the Light elemental class. Before we begin, Shoki is the Japanese term for the originally Chinese deity Zhong Kui -- the king of ghosts! Wikipedia posted:
Yeah... not seeing the relationship with a mutant dog xenomorph with a Russian pretty boy's face in its chest. .jpg) Back on track, there is very little to say about fighting this boss. We'll be doing the usual suite of buffs at the beginning and have Yuri fuse with Fides. Joachim happens to have shifted to his Grand Papillon form so this fight will be even more of a breeze, especially with his new wrestling Muscle Art in play. .jpg) .jpg) As stated earlier in the preliminary bout against the chapter boss, Shoki employs assorted Light elemental attacks like Meteor Fall and Bright Crest. Nothing we haven't seen before. .jpg) The only real gotcha it has up its knock-off Xenomorph sleeve is its physical attacks are now imbued with Instant Death. Which is a troubling proposition had we not outfitted everyone with Leonardo's Bears before entering this gauntlet. It's incredibly rude to give a boss instant kill abilities when it's at the end of a fairly long sequence of cutscenes and a trio of mandatory filler battles just to try again. Though, even with Instant Death status revoked, its physical attacks are by far its strongest tool as it does upward of 200 HP of damage to a target and nobody is surviving two rounds of that or a follow up magic spell at our current levels. .jpg) .jpg) In any event, despite the city destroying threat presented in the narrative, our party handily Old Yellers this rabid dog in just a few minutes. I hope we impressed the Mutant Apes, at the very least. Music: Result ~ Victory .jpg)  On next week's Grand Papillon: The Face... of Evil!.jpg) We get quite the hardy payout for taking out Shoki. Level Ups for everyone! .jpg) We also obtain another of the ever popular Tarot Cards for Lucia. Judgment allows us to draw another card that will always be a positive effect. The reverse is drawing another card that will always have a negative effect. The special effect is either drawing another card with the special positive or going to wipe our loving party special negative effect. So this card literally just wastes your time. Good stuff! .jpg)  That was kind of underwhelming after all the buildup... At least it didn't drag on. It kind of did. We had to fight it twice, after all. True, but... <claps> Hmm?NEW Music: Faith or Fate ~ Kato (It's about time Kato got his own theme.) .jpg) <claps> Impressive, as expected. Now you're going to tell me where Nicolai is. ......... I sensed Nicolai in that monster. The smugness was emanating from its soul. Also... the weird Nicolai face on its chest. That was kind of weird... First, you take the Émigré Manuscript and then you take Nicolai. Wait a moment, Yuri. You weren't present for when Nicolai handed over the Émigré Manuscript and I have not mentioned I had it in my possession. How do you know I have it? Ergh. I watched the earlier cutsce—err! I had a hunch! Yeah! And now you've confirmed it! <narrows eyes> I see... Let's just move on from this script oversight! I'm here to put an end to this. It has nothing to do with you. Not good enough!.jpg) Get any deeper into this and your very soul is in danger. Leave Japan at once. <shakes head> No way. And my soul is already in danger. Nicolai cursed me. I probably need to kick that guy's rear end to fix it. Plus....jpg) No way. Someone in this capital is pulling the strings, and I plan to find out who! No matter what? ...I'm really stretching for a goal at this point, so yes. He sent some weirdo babyhead wizard after me, so that's enough. <clenches fist> That lousy coward. He's hidden away while the lives of millions are ruined! I won't let him get away with that!Yuri marches up to Kato but the Mutant Apes step up to defend him. .jpg) The Army's Hojo Research Facility. That's where you'll find Nicolai. And where is that? I am already giving out state secrets. Do a bit of detective work, will you? ...Fair enough. He's still alive? Of course. But the minute you step foot in there, they'll use all their power to stop you.Kato and the Mutant Apes begin to walk away. .jpg) Sounds good. Very well. I'll be waiting. ......Music: ENDS .jpg)  ...Hmm. Is that right? So you came all this way to find this man you call Nicolai? Yes. A leading member of a secret society and heir to the imperial throne of Russia... Yeah, the secret society thing is a done deal. Don't worry too much about that part. And now Ishimura has him... Ishimura? Foreign Minister Kantaro Ishimura. The one who truly controls the Cabinet. So that's Kato's boss?.jpg) Correct. He wields tremendous influence here. Recently he's even formed his own army called the Iron Soldiers to consolidate his power. Yeah, we've run into them. He's definitely scrapping the bottom of the barrel with those troopers. He always was... frugal with his budgeting. He also controls the Hojo Research Lab. That monster and the Mutant Apes too? I... don't know what a Mutant Ape is... They're some sort of team of super soldiers protecting Kato. Anime weirdos. What is an anime? I don't know but the description sounds right... I'll take your word on this. But that monster you described... That monster was probably an experiment that somehow managed to escape..jpg)  That laboratory has been conducting suspicious experiments for years. Always involving new weapons research. Such as...? Remember the battleship rescue? <nods> Yes. All that. <cracks knuckles> Burn this joint to the ground. Got it!.jpg) It looks like Ishimura somehow plans to use Nicolai against Russia. Against Russia?! That is correct. He may even open a new front in the war. It could go from a Great War to a World War I at this rate. ...Why did you say "one" at the end there? Don't trouble yourself with that. He's that crazy?! He may be a bastard son, but there's no doubt that he is the prince. If we are not careful... Ishimura could use him as his pawn to seize power in Russia. No way... Do you think he can really do it? It's been done successfully many, many times in the past. I have not met this Nicolai, but if he is the easily manipulated himbo, as the young people say, it could spell disaster... If this war gets bigger, a lot more people are going to die. What's truly scary is that he's willing to unleash his monsters... on the world. But then... Huh?.jpg) I just don't believe Kato is capable of it. He wouldn't just blindly follow orders from someone like Ishimura. I'm sure... he's planning something else. Why do you think so? He's got a good heart. In Shanghai, he protected your daughter all the way until the end. I mean, sure, he didn't do a very good job of it. But his heart was in the right place. I guess... I only learned about it months later second hand from a letter a guy I barely knew sent to me... But even so, I can't see why he'd go all the way to Europe to help Sapientes Gladio get the Émigré Manuscript. Yuri, how DID you learn he had the Émigré Manuscript? I would have thought Rasputin had it stashed somewhere. <rubs neck> Look... it just makes sense... And he admitted to it so I was right. Huh? Émigré... what? The Émigré Manuscript. A magic book that brings back the dead. You do need to boil a LOAD of orphans to do it, though. It is pretty gnarly.  Wait, what?!  Previous adventure villain of the week. It was a bad scene. I don't want to talk about it..jpg) So far, everyone that's been after it has been trying to use it for evil purposes. Last time, it caused a hell of a mess. <shudders> That guy DEFINITELY wanted to bang his dead mom. It was messed up. Yuri, I'm going to start slapping you if you keep bringing up this kind of thing without context. I do not even know what to think. I don't believe it either. I owe that man a great deal for bringing back Yoshiko's body all the way from Shanghai. I can't really believe that Kato would use that book to pursue evil ends..jpg) Hmm... What is it? Did you remember something?.jpg) That woman named Ouka... From the Mutant Apes? What about her?.jpg) When I heard her voice, I thought it sounded kind of familiar. Yuri. Had you ever met her before? No... That was the first time. Well, so what? She sounded like Lt. Col. Kawashima. What?! And she... looked exactly like Lt. Col. Kawashima. The face, at least. Boobs and rear end were out of control slammin'.  ...Classy, Yuri. Just telling it like I saw it..jpg) M-my... Yoshiko?!.jpg) Naniwa proceeds to keel over and faint hearing his daughter might have been resurrected by an evil rear end magic book. Perhaps that wasn't the best thing to dump in the middle of a conversation. Some time later... .jpg) So... it's not my fault if the old man croaks right...? Not 100% but... not 0% either... Hmm...Kurando approaches the pair. .jpg) Is he all right? Yes, he's resting at the moment. It scared me when he fainted like that. You'd faint too if you heard that your dead daughter was still alive..jpg) But do you really think that Ouka person is Lady Yoshiko? Hmm... I didn't see her die with my own eyes, so I'm really not sure. I just got a letter in an optional sidequest. Which thinking back is a weird way to do things considering that event is pivotal to current events in my new adventure... Couldn't we find out by paying a visit to the laboratory? What? Hmph...Yuri stands up and sounds annoyed. .jpg) Yeah, there's an idea. We'll just go right out and ask her, "Are you Yoshiko Kawashima?" It's easy. Why didn't I just think of that? Are you sure? Of course! ...I'm being sarcastic right now... I think it might work. <nods> ...... ...Yeah, sure. Whatever. Let's do that.Music: Rising Sun ~ Japanese Town .jpg) Thanks for the concern, but I'm fine. I just had a little fright, that's all. Talk of resurrected daughters from cursed tomes will do that to you. We're going out for a little while. You make sure you get plenty of rest. Ha ha ha... People heading into danger have a distinct smell about them... And you guys reek of it! Now listen up! I won't stop you, but don't do anything stupid, all right? Yes, sir. Don't worry about it! OK, team! Let's go do something stupid!.jpg) We can say goodbye to Yoshiko the 2nd who has apparently been chilling out this whole time offscreen listening to how her predecessor might still be alive. .jpg) And we can also say goodbye to this chapter as the Burning Crossroads draw to a close. Tune in next time as we raid the Hojo Research Facility. Again, I suppose. As Shadow Hearts: Covenant Continues...   Despite the long interruption in LP updates, there wasn't a lot going on in this chapter new entry wise. .jpg) Ask for Astaroth Koshoki at your local marijuana distributor. .jpg) Oh yeah, it could teleport. It should probably have used that when it was getting its rear end beaten into the ground by the party.   Video: Episode 95 Highlight Reel
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Nov 16, 2020 21:34
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So How long until poo poo goes south for Kato because hes messing with the Emigre Manuscript and using it to make his dead CO's chest and rear end bigger.
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Nov 16, 2020 21:56
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I still laugh at the fact that the Evil SCIENCE lab is called the Hojo facility.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:So He’s dressing like Dracula’s cousin, working for a shady government, and has a squad of three mutant monkey cyborg servants (one of whom is a clone of a woman he liked). It’s counting down the hours until possession or nihilistic world destruction, at this point. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Yeah, somewhere Kato's equivalent of the Green Hornet has his head in his hands just thinking about his former sidekick.
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For all of Kato's descending to the dark side, I mean at least the guy had the courtesy to warn Yuri and co that he and his new flunkies would be waiting for them. That could either be a veiled attempt at saying he'll help them stop the corrupt mad scientist and his stooges or his way of saying they're straight up walking into a trap, but either way, it's too early to say he's gone full evil. Maybe anti-villain, perhaps a very generous read at being an anti-hero. And the way he revived Kawashima was probably just sacrificing the worst of the rear end in a top hat mooks from Sapientes Gladio and the corrupt Japanese soldiers who were in on her death way back from SH1. Nowhere near Patrick Heyworth or Jack territory yet.
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Nov 20, 2020 08:45
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The poo poo-loving begins anew! Happy to see you back, TDI.
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Probably redundant since so many people have already said it but I'm glad that this is back. Looking forward the Man Festival in particular.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:So
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Shitenshi posted:And the way he revived Kawashima was probably just sacrificing the worst of the rear end in a top hat mooks from Sapientes Gladio and the corrupt Japanese soldiers who were in on her death way back from SH1. Nowhere near Patrick Heyworth or Jack territory yet. Maybe that's how these resurrections work- the disposition of the clone is inverse to the soul fuel you pump in. Kill a bunch of innocent orphans? Get a monstrous hellbeast. Kill a bunch of murderious assholes? Get a pretty reasonable Kawashima.
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I want to say this is something Roger brought up way back in Koudelka, but the normal use for the Emigre Manuscript of just making a bunch of zombie laborers or whatever was pretty reliable, and it's not until you start trying to bring a specific person's soul back from the great beyond that you get into orphan slurries and horrible bug monsters. So if all Kato has done is revive Kawashima's corpse and given it a new mind through  it's possible he hasn't gotten into the real bad poo poo yet. Probably experimenting with other abominations so he gets it right when he goes for the real deal.
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ZiegeDame posted:I want to say this is something Roger brought up way back in Koudelka, but the normal use for the Emigre Manuscript of just making a bunch of zombie laborers or whatever was pretty reliable, and it's not until you start trying to bring a specific person's soul back from the great beyond that you get into orphan slurries and horrible bug monsters. So if all Kato has done is revive Kawashima's corpse and given it a new mind through And as we all know, Evil experiments always yield Good results!
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Kibayasu posted:And as we all know, Evil experiments always yield Good results! This but unironically.
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quote:I want to say this is something Roger brought up way back in Koudelka, but the normal use for the Emigre Manuscript of just making a bunch of zombie laborers or whatever was pretty reliable, and it's not until you start trying to bring a specific person's soul back from the great beyond that you get into orphan slurries and horrible bug monsters. So if all Kato has done is revive Kawashima's corpse and given it a new mind through it's possible he hasn't gotten into the real bad poo poo yet. Probably experimenting with other abominations so he gets it right when he goes for the real deal. This is a cool point, and feels rights. You want a corpse to walk? No problem. You even want it to look like someone in particular? Easy. You want to rip a dead person's soul out of Heaven/Hell/Non-existence? What are you thinking? It's not there, or the universe isn't letting it come back - it's not available. Everyone thinks the answer is shoving more bodies and souls into the stew pot, and nothing's going to work to fill that hole where that specific soul used to go. But boy, you can get some real monstrosities as you try.
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