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Dell_Zincht posted:Dirty Tricks, on Channel 4. Holy cow, that dude is even weirder than I remember! Interesting write up and very strange how involved his dad is in everything, but this is absolutely the guy. Thread delivers, thanks!
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shelley posted:I don’t have the document... but here is the thread itself, if you want to reread it. There are some long excerpts from the story posted in the thread, if that helps. Dang, I don't have archives access. Thanks for finding that though. And there were no working direct links to download the document in there?
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Aug 3, 2021 15:02
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Funky See Funky Do posted:A movie or TV show where a man kills someone by digging a ramp off a road on a corner and then somehow the victims car drives into it and then he buries the car. Stephen King’s best revenge tale ever: Dolan’s Cadillac. It’s actually a short story in (I think) Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Which also has another great “revenge” tale (no spoilers) called Battleground. Both stories are also made into movies, but tbh I can’t remember if they are Netflix or Prime. If you are a fan, they are both great ways to kill time and cheer on the impulsive part of the brain for a while!
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Aug 3, 2021 15:33
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I don't remember Battleground, but I think that book had the story about the finger in the sink. Not sure why but that one still freaks me out despite the inherent silliness.
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Aug 3, 2021 16:49
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Dr_Amazing posted:I don't remember Battleground, but I think that book had the story about the finger in the sink. Not sure why but that one still freaks me out despite the inherent silliness. yeah it was really unnerving
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Aug 3, 2021 18:05
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GreatGreen posted:Dang, I don't have archives access. I couldn't find the original document anywhere I looked, but I was able to reassemble the content. Mostly. This should be relatively complete.
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Aug 3, 2021 19:41
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Dr_Amazing posted:I don't remember Battleground, but I think that book had the story about the finger in the sink. Not sure why but that one still freaks me out despite the inherent silliness. Battleground was made into a short video (40ish minutes? May be more), assassin kills toy maker, toymaker’s voodoo mom sends army men for revenge. I just saw it a month or so, but cannot remember the service I was using. The surprise is in the last 30 seconds. Yes N&Ds was with the finger.
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Aug 4, 2021 00:55
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I have what I think will be a tricky one to find unless someone knows it already. I guess we will see, the book find in the last few pages was incredible. I watched a documentary on british TV about video games, maybe specifically violence in video games since that was all the rage at that time, in about 2000-2002. At one point they interviewed a boy, with a liverpool(?) accent, who explained how he had attempted a spinning piledriver on his friend; "I tried to pick him up, turn him upside down, jump up in the air, spin round, and land on his head. But it didn't work, because I couldn't pick him up" - I think I have that borderline verbatim because its etched into my memory. Anyway it would be incredible to find it. Its not in 'Trigger Happy' or 'Thumb Candy' from that era. I even watched 'Horizon Are Video Games really that bad' from 2015 just in case they'd re-used the VT but no.
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Aug 4, 2021 13:54
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shelley posted:I couldn't find the original document anywhere I looked, but I was able to reassemble the content. Mostly. This should be relatively complete. Thank you so very much. Many lols to come. 
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Aug 4, 2021 14:46
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I may have posted this here before but I'll try again: I thinks it's from a later season of Miami Vice, definitely an American buddy cop show. The two series stars are getting long in the tooth and young fierce streetwise grungy cops are going to replace them. There a scene with a drug bust in a house, one of the younger cops is going up to the house and the old ones can tell his cover is blown and try to warn him, but he's young and foolish and won't listen and the bad guys shoot him. This happens in slow motion with cool music. I've been looking for it for years.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:47
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yaffle posted:I may have posted this here before but I'll try again: I thinks it's from a later season of Miami Vice, definitely an American buddy cop show. The two series stars are getting long in the tooth and young fierce streetwise grungy cops are going to replace them. There a scene with a drug bust in a house, one of the younger cops is going up to the house and the old ones can tell his cover is blown and try to warn him, but he's young and foolish and won't listen and the bad guys shoot him. This happens in slow motion with cool music. I've been looking for it for years. Amusingly, this came up in my Twitter feed, and it sounds very similar: https://twitter.com/dannydutch/status/1422857906102411266?s=21
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Aug 5, 2021 15:32
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Coincidentally I watched S3 of Miami Vice recently. This is S3E19 "Red Tape". Does this clip include the bit you mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU1abzcZ6A
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Aug 5, 2021 15:57
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
E: Looks like I quote grabbed the wrong post. I'm only this far through the thread, and for some loving reason my brain could still dig up "telhix" when you described that. I haven't looked at SA much in at least several years. Memory is such a strange bloody thing. Squish fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Aug 5, 2021 |
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Aug 5, 2021 16:28
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Rascar Capac posted:Coincidentally I watched S3 of Miami Vice recently. This is S3E19 "Red Tape". Does this clip include the bit you mean? That seems like it fits, but I distinctly remember it being a house with a front yard and a gate, or maybe it was 40 years ago and my brain just added all that for me.
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I got my copy of the book early, but I got a different edition cover that is also pretty incredible? its no BDSM muscle hunk, tho, but still
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Aug 5, 2021 20:56
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Ramc posted:I got my copy of the book early, but I got a different edition cover that is also pretty incredible? that cat on his shoulder is aces
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Aug 6, 2021 00:47
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Sid Vicious posted:that cat on his shoulder is aces I’m pretending the cat is operating the man like a marionette, à la Remy from Ratatouille.
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Aug 6, 2021 04:06
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rodbeard posted:Someone started spamming that audio recording in TF2 like a decade back and I was laughing to hard to finish the match. Ha! I used to play on a server that welcomed weird audio spam and people would spam that all the time. Also the first time I ever heard ‘But I poop from there!’ ‘Not right now you don’t’.
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Aug 6, 2021 12:37
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Is this where I request porn that I can't find? You can try googling any little tidbit that you remember. I recently solved a 25 year old quest to find a specific porn that a friend would watch on a near daily basis, after another friend had liberated it from his father's stash. If you can figure out who some of the actors/actresses are, or a character name or even a distinct piece of dialogue then you never know. In this case, we'd been quoting a few particuar lines for that same 25 intevening years, so that helped.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:55
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I’m trying to remember a children’s book it would have been out in the UK probably late 80s to early 90s. There's a non-zero chance it would have been a jackanory story. Plot points I can remember: A child goes to a strange world and the first people they encounter are a seemingly sweet couple (man and woman, I think elderly) who lie all the time. They encourage the child to lie too. They encourage the child to tell a lie and say it’s only a white lie, but the child knows it’s a whopper of a lie? There might have been "little white lies", which maybe weren't that bad and also "black lies" which were a lot worse(?) The couple/whatever was trying to get the protag to lie to make bad things happen? Somehow black lies wake a monster or do something bad to the world?
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Aug 6, 2021 20:02
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I'm trying to find a youtube video. It's a narrated playthrough of early sections of Super Mario Land for Gameboy. The dude gets through the first level OK, but dies to stupid bullshit in 1-2, yells "NOPE--STILL BAD!" and ragequits entirely iirc. It may be framed as a reaction, like "Re-Trying Super Mario Land" or something, but it's years and years old and definitely predates "reaction videos" as a genre; think more old-school LP style.
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Aug 8, 2021 00:37
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"Oh to be young and in jeans" is a half remembered quote stuck in my head from something. But from what? I suspect it may be from a UK comedy show, something like Mitchell and Webb. I don't think it's Peep Show though because I know that backwards. Google has, predictably, been no help at all. Over to the Goon Hivemind.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:57
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There was a segment on one of the network news-talk shows acting as like an homage to Carmen Sandiego, and they had a theme song that went "Where in the building is firstname lastname" I think it was a hispanic name. I remember the Joel era Talk Soup showing it constantly. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking out?
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Aug 8, 2021 22:45
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Dejan Bimble posted:There was a segment on one of the network news-talk shows acting as like an homage to Carmen Sandiego, and they had a theme song that went "Where in the building is firstname lastname" Was it a correspondent with one of those morning soft news shows like the Today Show? I have vague memories of that being something on The Soup.
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Aug 8, 2021 23:21
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Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eip-dxloV1w
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When I was a kid I had a Commodore VIC-20 computer. it was already ancient when I had it, but it's what I had. It was a hand-me-down from my dad when he got a Tandy 1000. It had a bunch of books with it, many of them were commodore produced manuals, but others, like Compute!'s First Book of VIC were made by third parties like Compute! Magazine. One of these books (not Compute!'s First Book of VIC, or at least not the one available on archive.org) had a story about Commodore engineers rushing to get some VIC-20 prototype machine ready for a demo at a trade show in Japan and having a bit of a comedy of errors. That's pretty much all I remember from it. Does this ring a bell with anyone? edit: I think they might have had to source a keyboard at the last minute and the one they had was fitted with red metal keys? GutBomb fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 02:25
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Harvey TWH posted:Getting even the audio from the original mix of Empire Strikes Back would be amazing, too; even on the Despecialized Edition with its dozens of mixes, the omission of that one and its fancy extra lines saddens me. wondering what was meant by this. My knowledge of the various versions of the star wars films is fairly thin on the ground, but what's the fancy extra lines? I couldn't find what harvey was referring to even in the post he was replying to. over the last, idk, week or three, I've read over the whole of the thread, and sadly, all the guesses I would have made were made by other people. but that's okay. I'm gonna drop a bunch of these and see what falls out. one of them is a direct repost from another thread, the rest, I don't think I've posted about at all. • A children's book either for a toyetic franchise or made in the style of one. Extant circa 1985-6. A series of brightly monocolored futuristic vehicles leave their snowy base even though the weather is bad. The large yellow one (the order/size of these may be wrong), the middle-size green one and the smaller blue one all go out into the storm and get stuck. They are then rescued by the tiny red member of the team who all the others were bullying because red is a tow truck. I seem to recall the front cover having one of those titles where the middle letters are huge and in front of you and the beginning and the end stretch off in two point perspective to the sides of the cover (and then an action shot of the action jeeps or tanks or whatever the gently caress they were driving at you over the top edge of the title) • A DOS slot machine game, from the same period. I guarantee you this is going to be unfindable because there were a million of these fuckers, but I'm writing it in anyway. I've already looked through some of the games posted on archive.org and I should try again at some point. The two main points: it showed the entire machine, not just the reels, and it was just sitting against a plain blue background. • A cartoon, possibly one of those weird French ones of the mid-80s, almost certainly shown on Nickelodeon circa 1989-90. A group of space cruisers with glowing, wedge-shaped prows come together, the prows acting like slices of a pie to make a whole circle. • A video, posted in 2007-8 by Tom Green (yes, that Tom Green) in which he drives a large convertible down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, Canada, rambling quietly about ghost riding the whip. He then proceeds to climb out of the car and sit on the hood for a while, still rambling. He gets back in the car when he sees a train in the distance. It's some kind of brilliant zen comedy, and it's fallen off the internet as far as I can tell. hexwren fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Aug 9, 2021 12:22
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hexwren posted:
One of the Fighting Fantasy books?
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This is a long shot, but I'm looking for a song\music video, pretty sure from the 00s. It has a female vocalist and I want to say the music style was noisy and chaotic electronic dance, maybe similar to Crystal Castles, but not quite. I want to say the words "the future" show up often in the lyrics. In the video the lead singer is represented by a giant puppet thing that tiny people wearing different colored hazmat suits move around\interact with in lockstep. The whole thing was like DMT: The Musical!
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Aug 9, 2021 14:25
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hexwren posted:• A children's book, extant somewhere in the 1988-1990 period. Could have sworn it won a Caldecott, but none of the winners seemed to match. It was based on, if memory serves, indigenous legends of the americas...which I know is a lot of space and a lot of cultures, but it's also a long time ago and I barely remember any of it. The art was in bright, almost neon colors on black pages. This sounds like Arrow to the Sun. Way older than 1988 (1974!) but any good children's library would have it.   
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Aug 9, 2021 14:39
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hexwren posted:• A game book, published before 1994. Your standard sort of dungeon crawler. I don't recall the title, obviously enough, or much of the actual game mechanics, though there were mechanics. The setting was some kind of harbor town where unpleasant things were happening. You could pick up a wine bottle fairly early on in your adventure. If you drank from it, you died, because it had turned to vinegar.
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I remember reading this book when I was sick with strep throat as a kid (98 or 99 but im not sure how old the book was at that point. It was fantasy and it was mostly about a goblin who lived in the dungeon. He wasnt evil, I believe he was portrayed as cranky or disillusioned. I cant remember if the book was from his point of view or possibly from the point of view of a child that lived in the castle that would come and visit him? Thats all I can really remember.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I remember reading this book when I was sick with strep throat as a kid (98 or 99 but im not sure how old the book was at that point. It was fantasy and it was mostly about a goblin who lived in the dungeon. He wasnt evil, I believe he was portrayed as cranky or disillusioned. I cant remember if the book was from his point of view or possibly from the point of view of a child that lived in the castle that would come and visit him? Thats all I can really remember. Is it Coville's Goblins in the Castle? Definitely a favorite book of mine. Features plenty of dungeons, a kid meeting friendly and grumpy goblins, etc.
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hexwren posted:
There is a long, but vague, list on Wikipedia (List of changes in Star Wars re-releases), detailing both some visual differences (wipes vs. cuts, slightly different shots or closeups, unfinished effects, etc.) and differences in audio. Just a few that stand out on the audio front, which might have made their way into various special editions: Luke says "Thanks, 3P0" after "It's so good to see you fully functional again" C-3P0 says "There's nowhere to go" after "Oh, this is suicide" Famously, the 70mm mix might have had "You were lucky to get out of there" instead of the more familiar "You're lucky you don't taste very good" But there are lots of little extra R2 noises, various grunts and utterances, alternate lines, etc. reported, and I don't believe that sound mix is available in full even if some isolated lines made their way back (to say nothing of the alternate visuals).
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Harvey TWH posted:There is a long, but vague, list on Wikipedia (List of changes in Star Wars re-releases), detailing both some visual differences (wipes vs. cuts, slightly different shots or closeups, unfinished effects, etc.) and differences in audio. Just a few that stand out on the audio front, which might have made their way into various special editions: Ah, cool, thanks! Pastry of the Year posted:This sounds like Arrow to the Sun. Way older than 1988 (1974!) but any good children's library would have it. That's the one, thanks a lot! Rascar Capac posted:One of the Fighting Fantasy books? Dr. Quarex posted:I think I read this at one point, so if it is not a Fighting Fantasy book it has to be one of the GrailQuest books I have: Gateway of Doom, Voyage of Terror, Kingdom of Horror, or Realm of Chaos. Fighting Fantasy seems to have too complex a system for what I was playing at the time, but I could be wrong. I'll look more deeply into those next. Grailquest seems to have the right amount of mechanics, but I can't seem to find one that matches flavor-wise. Obviously, I'll do those one-by-one as well. Additionally, re: this gamebook, I want to say there were unpleasant humanoid seaweed monsters about. The winning path definitely led through the sewers. hexwren fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 20:14
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hexwren posted:
"Can You Solve The Mystery?" perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_Collins_and_Amy_Adams Book 12 was: The Secret of the Video Game Scores & other mysteries The Secret of the Fortune-Teller The Mystery of the Circus Kidnapping The Case of the Invisible Burglar The Secret of the Video Game Scores The Case of the Escaped Convict The Mystery of the Speedy Snitcher The Case of the Convenient Car Crash The Secret of the Smashed Statue The Mystery of Hawkeye's Letters Davros1 fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Aug 10, 2021 |
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hexwren posted:• https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2704537&userid=132614 in which I ask the identify a book for me thread about a series of encyclopedia brown-style computer mysteries of the eighties. I definitely remember this series. Pretty sure we had it in our community library. I feel like it may have been UK because the main character had an Acorn Archimedes? I remember one story about the main character and his friend printing out the source code to a video game they were making. Another was the main character writing a computer program so he would get to dance with the love interest girl. His program got hacked by the rival girl. Another was trying to challenge some university students to a game where they had to find a submarine in the Atlantic ocean. They used the university mainframe to brute force search, but the plucky Archimedes won by searching only the areas with favourable ocean currents. Pretty sure the rival girl had to help the main character for this one.
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Davros1 posted:"Can You Solve The Mystery?" perhaps? Nope. Every case was based around technology, usually computers. The protagonist worked alone. His online handle was Blade Runner after the movie. The font on the cover was Westminster in outlined red and yellow like  ~Coxy posted:I definitely remember this series. Pretty sure we had it in our community library. I mean, it's possible, but I remember the language usage being very American, like, I wasn't sitting there baffled about European things like this other mystery book I read in the same time period (which, in order for me to solve one of the cases, required me to know poo poo about what shore of Lake Zurich Zurich was on. I was like nine, I'd never heard of Zurich before) hexwren fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Aug 10, 2021 |
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hexwren posted:That's the one, thanks a lot! I'm glad! It was also adapted into a short animated film that's really worth a watch.
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I don't know if I still have the details right, but this is the narrative I have in my head: back when the WTF D&D article series was still going on the front page, some time after they did their article on FATAL (in which they said they were not going to do an article on FATAL), somebody in the Games Room forum started an actual FATAL game, as a demonstration of how stupid and awful it was. some of the people participating made characters to try and target FATAL's weirdness directly (one of them rolled an actual rapist) but the show really blew up when, many pages later, one of the characters got a hold of a cursed wand and flung it around casting a bunch of random spells. the DM of course intentionally chose the dumbest poo poo he could find in the spells list so he could freestyle. this resulted in, among other things, one of the characters having to scream something ridiculous every time he cast a spell, and another character uncontrollably farting at volumes upwards of 140 dB. everything quickly went to poo poo after that, but those were some of the funniest DM posts I've ever read. I think. I don't remember the posts themselves, but I do remember laughing my rear end off. I have archives and all that but every time I try searching for this thread I come up sad and empty-handed. I very distinctly remember the phrase "a thunderous fart echoes" being used at some point in the thread.
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