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Captain Invictus posted:oh boy, an Among Us collabo with a bunch of huge youtubers and the game grumps. It's a fun game to watch.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2020 11:14 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:25 |
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Captain Invictus posted:I can see the attack ads now. "CORTEZ can keep a straight face while lying to you, how can we trust her with one of the most important government positions in the land? Give her the opportunity and she'll stab you in the back. Don't let HER vote YOU out the airlock." Counterpoint: #OrangeIsSus
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2020 13:18 |
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Captain Invictus posted:second part to the Game Grumps and other youtube celebrity Among Us collaboration is out, and it's just as great as the first It's funny that both Arin & AOC didn't get negative numbers were an option for temperature log in the lab on the artic map. But AOC figured it out immediately and course-corrected, while Arin took multiple attempts to remember the existence of negative numbers.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 12:05 |
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FirstAidKite posted:I don't really know how to ask this without it coming off as me trying to start poo poo so I'm just going to ask this question and please keep in mind that this isn't me trying to set up some kind of "gotcha" or trolling or anything like that, I'm just looking for honest opinions and answers here. A great example of his work is his video on speedrunning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5auJOBC828 The stream he mentions at the end of that video is what actually put him in contact with AOC. He decided to dedicate his stream to Mermaids, a British charity that helps children with gender dysphoria, after noted transphobic fuckwit Graham Lineham lobbied to get its National Lottery funding suspended. It went on for several days, and became a big thing, raising I want to say half of what the lottery funding would have been and also provided a platform for trans people to share their experiences over the course of the stream. I think the National Lottery actually turned around and actually gave Mermaids the money they had suspended, too. That's were AOC came on to discuss the N64, Trans Rights, and Hbomb asked her how to beat Beaver Bother. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw Terrible Opinions posted:He's funny and explains political concepts in plain language. Same reason that historians you've ever heard of are whose with an entertaining voice in their writing and who make it accessible, and not those who breaking new research ground. Specifically thinking of Dan Carlin with Hardcore History and Mike Duncan with History of Rome. Neither of whom are really academics just guys making podcasts of primary and secondary sources we've had for centuries.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 11:12 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Someone needs to preemptively start printing "I'm Lindsay loving Ellis, Son" t-shirts. Twincityhacker posted:Wouldn't it be "I'm Lindsey loving Ellis, daughter" "I'm Lindsay loving Ellis, drat Baby"
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2020 13:24 |
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Considering both Linkara & Hbomb have played Among Us on stream now, I'm counting down until we get them, Lindsay, Todd, Jenny, Lupa and a bunch of the other former CA crew together. Also if they get Jim loving Sterling, Son that would also be excellent. Speaking of which: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNzpXx7xSsM
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2020 13:42 |
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The Halloween BOTL is up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWTfamqgMg I'd watch Night of 1000 Pomeranians.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 19:32 |
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Calico Heart posted:If you want a real hero for the era, Charles Sumner was one of the most moral men of the era and kicked rear end. He was an abolitionist, in favour of giving natives and blacks land to compensate for how lovely the USA was to them, in favour of giving women the vote, Lincoln's "moral compass" (in his own words) and once delivered a speech that called out-slave owners and humiliated them so much that a sentaor snuck up on him and started beating him with a cane in the senate. The "caning of charles sumner" was actually seen as an important moment pre-war as it exemplified that that rhetoric, dialogue and appealing to the alve-owners sense of morality was impossible. Lincoln wanted Burlingame to be the US Envoy to the Austrian Empire, but his pro-Hungarian independence stance meant that was a non-starter, so instead he was sent to Qing China. Now, China in the 19th Century was not exactly having a happy time, but Burlingame took the radical stance of 'let's not be dicks to these people' and got most of the Western powers to at least for a time stop using military force and try cooperation with pro-reform elements instead. when his term ended, the Chinese government hired him to be their ambassador to the US, and he successfully negotiated a treaty allowing Chinese citizens to immigrate to the US and even become citizens. While unfortunately a lot of his hard work would go on to be undone after his death, he was still a pretty cool dude for the time.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 23:34 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUoo6vv0k2U A musical number from Jim loving Sterling! It's a Christmas miracle!
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2020 16:23 |
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Gnome de plume posted:a present from Dan: a video about what people think make movies qualify as Christmas movies Not the best, though, that's Muppet Christmas Carol. It looks like it's a two-parter with Movies with Mikey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68JSod6pIRM Edit: oh hey, it's actually about a system for determining the Christmasness of movies! I'll have to rewatch ITSV to check its score. Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Dec 25, 2020 |
# ¿ Dec 25, 2020 00:19 |
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Zedd posted:Ds9 is the best O'Brien cause he almost dies or gets hosed over every single time he is in focus. They literally had 'O'Brien Must Suffer' as a subgenre of episode in the writer's room.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 13:38 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBDyLEYk-BU It's here.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2021 23:38 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Ready Player Two being an absolute garbage fire of a novel is more likely why there's no movie of it being made. That didn't stop the original!
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 11:37 |
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Twin Peaks is kind of an odd example in that Lynch and Frost have said in interviews that they never really had any intention of answering the question of Who Killed Laura Palmer until network execs basically forced their hands (which is why the series quality kind of falls off a cliff after that mystery gets answered, as Lynch basically lost interest until the finale and the movie) and were far more interested in using the mystery as an exploratory tool for unraveling the stories of the town and its people than in solving the mystery itself. Waasn't the guy who played Bob a crew member whose reflection was caught in a shot so he was written into the show?
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 19:15 |
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Solitair posted:What examples would you put forward as shining examples of long-form storytelling? I'm always interested in finding more of them that don't gently caress up later on in the run. Octopus Pie.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 08:01 |
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Ivypls posted:i like args, i'd probably like args MORE if i didn't live in the middle of fuckin nowhere Wait, what?
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 10:11 |
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Ariong posted:What I don't understand is why everyone does not simply adopt a skeleton avatar, the best kind of avatar. Most everyone's avatar has a skeleton avatar contained within.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2021 23:05 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Is there a better term for "Surface-Level Iconography"? Where the new owners of an IP can only grasp the appeal of a work being it's surface elements and have trouble, or choose not to understand, the thought process behind those elements. Beyond that there's a stuggle to add anything new and meaningful to the canon. Hey now, it's not just IP owners not getting media. See Doug and The Wall.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2021 15:44 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:child tv ratings boards were weird back then. its fascinating because now alot of the disney cartoons can say crap and sucks now. It looks like there's still room for baffling decisions, given what's happening with the finale of Amphibia season 2. It looks like after multiple rounds of approval either S&P of Disney pulled it from airing like 8 hours before broadcast.
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# ¿ May 5, 2021 06:41 |
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I'm still mad the poker Pretty Good is still MIA from the internet.
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# ¿ May 13, 2021 20:21 |
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Didn't Rowling's first non-Potter work get poor reviews/sell really poorly until it got 'leaked' she wrote it?
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2021 21:54 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i started leaning away when he talked about how the covenant was the good guys of halo because they were different aliens and humans were humans/spartans=nazis. i am still amused of his massive massive hatred of FPS games becaue "chud jocks only play them". I mean if you look at the background lore in the novels, the UNSC are legitimately kind of authoritarian (and acknowledged as such), but I doubt Bob actually looked that deep.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2021 21:06 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah the UNSC and ONI get up to some straight up eugenicist science horror bullshit in the quest to create the ultimate transhuman exemplar with the Spartan program. Like kidnapping children in the middle of the night for their genetic alteration horror show program and replacing them with poorly constructed clones so their parents and siblings will they just randomly died of a brain aneurysm so they don't go asking any questions. You'd think that would be right up Movie "Sweet Jesus, I love eugenics" Bob's alley... Dawgstar posted:I wonder how much of that is Karen Traviss directly.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2021 21:31 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Well the example I mentioned comes from the I Love Bees radio drama that serves as the prelude to Halo 2, which predates most of the Halo novels aside from Fall of Reach, The Flood and First Strike. One of the main characters, Kamal, discovers over the course of the story that his sister Yasmin, who he thought died as a child from a sudden degenerative illness, was actually kidnapped by ONI in the dead of night and replaced with a "flash clone" which was designed to exhibit zero neurological activity and then rapidly go into organ failure and die to create an alibi to keep families from asking too many questions. She was a part of the same Spartan II program that produced John-117 but "washed out" (ie: died) before graduating. Arcsquad12 posted:Very little, actually. Karen Traviss's novels focus on an ONI Black Ops team and one of the characters is a Spartan washout who got crippled by the augmentations and has a vendetta against the people who ran the child soldier program. Not to really defend Traviss's work because I find her novels in the franchise a bit naff but the whole sketchy ONI poo poo was started by Eric Nylund when Microsoft commissioned him to write the first few EU novels for Halo. The child soldiers thing is played completely straight for the first several novels.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2021 21:48 |
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Bakeneko posted:My favorites were their Kickstarter Nonstarters series, where they made fun of projects that ranged from just plain stupid to utterly incomprehensible. I’m glad Slope’s Game Room picked up the torch when it came to mocking terrible crowdfunding projects because that’s a very rich vein of comedy. My personal favourite is any time they reacted to a Dahir Insaat 'product'.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 22:20 |
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Malpais Legate posted:That was so loving tone deaf that I lost my goddamn mind watching it. Let's Kill Hitler was stupid but very quickly ran right past that premise and into the bonkers scifi bullshit but actively putting the Doctor into the Civil Rights movement like that? Do they think that highly of this show for children?? It did have some good moments for Yaz & Ryan, at least. But Demons of the Punjab blew it out of the water later in the season.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 06:43 |
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Archer666 posted:Never watched the show myself, but X-Men Evolution is good for introducing X-23 who was my favorite character in the comics, until somebody decided that the character who's entire shtick was trying to be human and her own person should just take the Wolverine name and outfit. I mean it's better than her literally using the designation her creators gave her as her superhero name. Seriously, you must be the first person I've met that hates All-New Wolverine.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2021 09:18 |
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Archer666 posted:Less that I hate it, more that I just disagree with the direction that her character took. Probably its because American hero comics aren't my thing (anymore). I got into them when I was looking for something new around the time that the first Civil War event happened, but eventually realized that a lot of the stuff that makes super hero books just isn't appealing to me the older I got. I still enjoy American comic books, though more stuff like the old Vertigo line where things were more experimental and surreal. But what about it aside from the name was the dealbreaker? Honestly that book was a pretty great followup to what came before, IMO. Certainly better than Bendis' take on her in All-New X-Men.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2021 11:39 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Yes, Alice and Liam are still on Well There's Your Problem, so yes the podcast still contains approximately 66% shitbags, guest host-dependent. I mean DNE also doubled down defending Alice’s shitbaggery, so I guess he counts too. It’s really annoying that they’ve started to appear on other podcasts I like too. Alice was on the UKMT podcast and Liam’s been showing up on Lions Led By Donkeys, which is especially infuriating since he’s been on a bunch of episodes on topics that I wanted to see that show cover.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2021 08:56 |
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The 7th Guest posted:coffeehouse crime did a video on the Killdozer but it was pretty bad (honestly they're not the greatest true crime youtube channel), it's too dry and overly sympathetic to heemeyer imo Yeah, back before DNE turned out to be a massive shitbag (or at least enabler thereof) he did a pretty great video deconstructing the myth.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2021 06:24 |
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Life is Strange could theoretically be called a time loop game, given the implication that Max unknowingly rewound at the very start of the game and might have been stuck in a loop trying to save Chloe and the town at the same time, only breaking the loop at the end of the game when she realises (and accepts) she can't do both. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2021 00:42 |
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I think it's interesting that there's a couple of shows (Amphibia & The Owl House) which while not a 100% match to Isekai (they're definitely portal fantasy, at least) are clearly in dialogue with the conventions of the genre. In Amphibia, Anne winds up in a backwater farming community and remains an outsider for most of the first season, while in the case of her friends Sasha is captured by the toads and thrown in a dungeon before rising through their ranks and becomes a major antagonist, while Marcy, the one who got them stuck there, seems to have the more typical Isekai experience until it turns out King Andrias has been playing off her expectations to get what he wants, and when it's revealed what she did Anne & Sasha, despite both having had character growth and made new friends in Amphibia are shocked and angry at what Marcy did. Oh, and the final series has Anne returned to Earth with the Plantars, so now they're the ones out of water. While in The Owl House the most recent episode had Luz interacting with her mother and the Basilisk who took her place when she ran off to the Boiling Isles (she left initially to get out of going to summer camp and only got trapped there at the end of the first series), and both of them call her out from running away to live out her witch fantasies.
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 18:46 |
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John Murdoch posted:Reminder that Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a vtuber. Will they actually cast asian actors in speaking roles this time?
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2021 21:48 |
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One of the other many, many sins of Dollhouse is that the executives, i guess a bit gunshy about cancelling another Whedon show, decided to give it a second season, which came at least partially at the expense of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2021 20:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNATsAa9sa0 New Sarah Z video.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2021 18:53 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:Tragic that we'll never get more incisive writing from the team that brought us "Yeah, the dystopia themes in Cowboy Bebop were a real downer so we decided to cut them." and "Well it wasn't all the cops who were bad, just the one bad apple!" One thing I did find weird is that as far as I can tell everyone who did make that (fairly valid) argument about the political commentary being cut didn't really mention Dog Star Swing, where the cops cap a surrendering guy in the head solely so they don't have to pay out the bounty to the protagonists who just talked him out of suicide. And his motivation had been to kidnap and murder the pets of a bunch of 1%ers (specifically because they'd prioritised saving their pets over other people, including his family), only to not be able to being himself to kill a bunch of innocent animals. Granted it's only one episode, but I'm kind of surprised I didn't see it mentioned all that much.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2021 00:34 |
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sexpig by night posted:oh I agree her outfit needed to be changed for live action but just their general handling of the actress saying a pretty obvious thing like 'yea I couldn't, you know, kick and move in that outfit because I'm a human woman and not a cartoon' and tried to make it into some big 'WE'RE FIXING FAYE' thing just reeked of trying to bait idiots like The Quartering into having 20 minute meltdowns for ~engagement~ rather than anything genuine. What I took away from her responses was she was probably justifiably mad at the people who were bitching she wasn’t the Anime given flesh, so some snark is both understandable and fitting.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2021 08:40 |
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thetoughestbean posted:Didn’t know about Jill Bearup. I saw some of her videos and went “neat but a bit too focused on pop culture for me”, disappointing to hear that she’s a terf and seems to hate autistic people besides. I'd say Hbomb, but then again you can't trust his opinions on the prequels.
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2021 00:33 |
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nurmie posted:this essay about the fabled Netflix adaptation of Cowboy Bebop has randomly showed up in my recommendations, and it's Really Good, imo I realise that's the way The Algorithm(TM) works, but it's always kind of annoying when people pick contextless shots of people yelling as the thumbnail.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2021 22:14 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:25 |
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sexpig by night posted:It actually fits because it's the 'welcome to the ouch, motherfuckers' scene that completely is out of character for Faye and sucks rear end in general and actually does really well represent how much the adaptation sucks for a lot of reasons Honestly, I feel like there were only like a few changes to that last episode and it wouldn't have been so bad. The lion's share of the scenes/clips that people wheeled out on Twitter were from that ep. The hell of it is that I feel like the series would have gotten better if they'd been able to take constructive criticism going forward. And more importantly we'd get some more Seatbelts music.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 00:07 |