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72156 No. 72156 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
What happened to Fubar again..?
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>> No. 72189
>>72164

I heard he went down swinging against a herd of buffalo.
>> No. 72190
>>72189
Someone told me he was shot to death while resisting arrest after shoplifting 30 raw chickens.
>> No. 72192
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72192
i heard he was black so the cops shot him
>> No. 74982
Fubar now works for Microsoft. Time to move to Linux guys.
>> No. 74983
>>74982

He did for a while but he got put in jail for raping his boss


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74820 No. 74820 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Am I an adult yet?
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>> No. 74892
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74892
>>74891
I wouldn't say nearly all, pretty much just figmas are posable while all other figures and nendroids are not. Some (nendroids mostly) allow you to mover their head but that's it. A lot of people don't like the look of the ball-joints for fully posable figmas, preferring more fixed figures. It's like saying the Milo di Venus would be better with detachable and posable arms.

I bring this up of course since they do have a Milo no Venus figma, and it is better than the original statue.
>> No. 74893
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74893
Here's two The Thinkers getting into an anime fight.
>> No. 74903
Mykhal?
>> No. 74973
>>74820

No, I can tell you're a pretty edgy kid from that pic.
>> No. 74979
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74979
>>74973
The post was a commentary on the conflict of modern young people in wanting to like traditionally childish things but also wanting to be considered adults, making the reader ponder, what is adulthood in modern times? Can one still like toys and be an adult? Do guns and liquor cancel it out? Is attempting to cancel it out, in itself, a childish act?

I accomplished this message expertly in five short words, but I understand if you didn't get it, my commentaries are very cerebral but they remain important to the Internet nonetheless.


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74939 No. 74939 hide quickreply [Reply]
testing ok pls
>> No. 74940
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74940
rude
>> No. 74941
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74941
rude
>> No. 74956
>>74941
I've found a new fetish
Just kidding, I already like underwater porn, it's just that most of it is shite.


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74699 No. 74699 hide quickreply [Reply]
I am a business man.
>> No. 74705
  No, you're the guy who sings for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
>> No. 74723
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74723
i am a businessman
>> No. 74910
I'm a gentleman.

OP OP OP OP
>> No. 74912
The correct spelling is bidness.
>> No. 74937
I'm a classic man.


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74906 No. 74906 hide quickreply [Reply]
Is this place still dead?

t. hasn't been here since early 2012 or whenever it was that that fag from IRC hacked the site and deleted everything
>> No. 74908
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74908
>>74906
Turned out it wasn't Joker who wiped out the site after all but the Chinese government. Long story, but both sides have signed a letter of understanding and now we are actually uncensored in Shenzhen.
>> No. 74911
>>74908

Yeah, it cost each admin a kidney, though.
>> No. 74914
Only a fool would think we payed in our own kidneys! HA!


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74894 No. 74894 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Why can't I find a gf?

Pic is me
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>> No. 74898
Have you tried being a better listener?
>> No. 74899
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74899
>>74895
At first I didn't see the "S"
>> No. 74900
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74900
rude
>> No. 74901
Is there a name for whatever is wrong with this guy's head? It looks like it would impact the shape of his brain. Is he mentally retarded?
>> No. 74902
>>74901
It's a devastating problem that affects many people pictured on the Internet and it's called Photoshop.


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74599 No. 74599 hide expand quickreply [Reply] [Last 50 posts]
Soon enough the beta version of the updated 99chan will go live as the new real 99chan, and this incarnation of the board will be on its way out.

Now that we're almost done with this iteration, are we going to do anything crazy and special on here to celebrate?
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>> No. 74802
>>74801

The problem is that you're only looking at lung cancer. That's not the only type of cancer smoking can cause, just the most deadly. Smoking also causes health issues outside of cancer, like increasing the risk of heart disease.
>> No. 74803
>>74802
And lung cancer may be the deadliest but it is far from the grossest. Mouth cancer and black furry tongue hooray
>> No. 74843
I am a 47 year old male whos smokes 1 to 1.5 packs a day since age 13
>> No. 74874
>>74843
Have you ever smoked a man?
>> No. 74876
>>74874
Women are usually juicier and more tender when you put them in the smoker, if your goal is cooking some ribs or pulled (long) pork.


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74834 No. 74834 hide quickreply [Reply]
Why other boards like /docta/ or /fitfa/ are so abandoned?
inb4: pic of chico bioca, the master of tabacos
>> No. 74835
More or less a greatly diminished userbase since the heyday of the chan several years ago.

Now we're all just hellza old alcoholics.
>> No. 74836
Because we don't have a lot of posters.
>> No. 74842
File
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>>74834
Yep OP, I realized this too, I write an thread in /docta/ but nobody reply me... can anybody here leave your opinion in there?
>> No. 74863
>>74842

Because you copy and pasted it from 4 big dicks up my asshole you goof


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74821 No. 74821 hide quickreply [Reply]
This is a daily reminder than an archived 4 big dicks up my asshole is existing and it has over 3.7mil images

http://4 big dicks up my assholearchives.cu.cc

PS: not a spambot. also, as a warning, theres 3-5 popups per 24hours, don't freak out, it's not a spam infested hellhole.

(USER LISTENS TO JUSTIN BEIBER)
>> No. 74822
Why would you even bother to post this here?
>> No. 74824
>>74822
for more publicity?
>> No. 74826
>>74824

You're marketing to the wrong crowd.
>> No. 74831
>>74826
Do you think that's ever a deterrent?


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74829 No. 74829 hide quickreply [Reply]
http://caprice.99chan.org:8000/radio.mp3

radio tonight
>> No. 74830
99chan radio? This is new. Sweet. Thanks, man.


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73899 No. 73899 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
If life is so meaningless, why do we have these tasty apples?
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>> No. 74353
That man is angry at the apples. That's why.
>> No. 74359
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74359
>>74353
Maybe he's looking at two of these.
>> No. 74656
>>74359
That is a disrespectful apple. I would be having none of that apples sassy attitude.
>> No. 74817
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74817
welp
>> No. 74823
>>74231
Because they are meant to be eaten al dente, if you leave them for too long they soak up all the broth and get soggy and leave you with a cup of gross wet bread.


No. 64793 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
  Why are cows so adorable?
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>> No. 74729
>>74724
I live near a decent amount of cows and I don't have an issue with water infections or monsoon season. Sounds like Calcutta problems.
>> No. 74733
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74733
>>74729
I was just thinking "dude must live in Tanzania or some shit" but then he's all "ban cows in America!" and I was like "whaaaat?"

Though I hear hurricane season is rough in Wisconsin.
>> No. 74770
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74770
>>74733
arizona, basketball americans
>> No. 74778
>>74770

Arizona is a desert wasteland, if there are cows there it's not the fault of the cows but the people the decide to raise them there on the artificial irrigated grasslands. "Monsoon" in Arizona? Yeah right. Cows are awesome and your attack is baseless.
>> No. 74792
i fucking hate zoe deschanel! she is an ugly, stupid, creature that poisons our lands and uses vital resources.


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74630 No. 74630 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-british-virgin-was-found-guilty-of-attempted-murder-after-stabbing-three-women-122

First Elliot Rodgers, now this basketball american. Is it becoming a trend for autistic guys to kill women because they are having trouble getting laid?

Do you think the increase in this type of crime is related to the increased popularity of redpill ideology?
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74670
>>74657
I like this post quite a lot overall. I don't think it's that you put too much stock in media, but that you don't put media in as a piece of a larger narrative. Media definitely shapes our development and how we interact and what we desire and how we are taught to desire and that fits into a feedback loop with other social forces.

As far as the prostitution thing, a partial solution is definitely better than no solution. It wouldn't have helped Elliot because he wanted to date the girls he saw on campus, not fuck a 26 year old escort... but maybe it would help someone else who's attitude or situation are different. We hellza can't underestimate the power of physical touch for a person's mental and emotional wellbeing, even if you're paying for it.
>> No. 74671
>>74670
Elliot Rodger was only the most blatant example of someone who used misogyny at the forefront of ideology, but I doubt most of these spree shooters get sniz on the reg. Having sex with someone, even a prostitute, is going to give you some sense of accomplishment that the brain needs and is likely going to increase your confidence. The confidence can then lead to things like getting a real girlfriend.

It's not just about prostitution either, but the stigma that it comes with. Simply legalizing it would lift some of that stigma, but there's still a sense that having sex with a prostitute isn't hellza sex and you're still a virgin. It becomes like that one game in the arcade that you just fucking suck at, but everyone shames you for not being ballza at it. Then, instead of flipping the bird to those people, you internalize that shame and start picking on the girls playing Ms. Pac-Man and blaming them for the shitty arcade culture.
>> No. 74707
>>74653
>>74670
A solution that generally makes a positive difference doesn't stop making a positive difference just because it's not flawless.
>> No. 74711
On the subject of media exposure, I'd like to point out that media is just the end of the line that provides information to the general public. It's not just that we now have access to information about what's going on everywhere around the world, it's also that the people everywhere have a better understanding now of what's going on in their own environment than they had, say, a century ago. Scientific and technological advancement and whatnot.
If, a century ago, we'd had the same level of news access, we wouldn't have necessarily had as many stories of people going apeshit, simply because they had a better chance of getting away with it back then.
Nowadays, even if the Brit virgin in OPs post slashed the shit out of those chicks and fled the scene without anybody knowing who he was, the authorities would have probably tracked him down eventually and you'd still have your "a-british-virgin-was-found-guilty-of-attempted-murder-after-stabbing-three-women" news headline. Forensic sciences have advanced considerably in the past century. A century ago, if there were no witnesses, it could very well have just been attributed to the work of "a creature", and if it happened a few times then maybe some Jack The Ripper type character, the work of multiple unknown killers would be getting attributed to a single entity, and so forth.
>> No. 74783
You can't can the han.

(USER WAS SENT TO SHOWER WITH SANDUSKY)


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74722 No. 74722 hide quickreply [Reply]
what freeware do y'all recommend for ripping dvds?
>> No. 74725
Handbrake
>> No. 74727
Windows 10 inbuilt DVD ripper.
>> No. 74734
your hands, dummy

just grab them and rip as hard as you can. failing that, scissors, though those might not be free but you can get them at the dollar store
>> No. 74738
>>74725
seconding handbrake. It's almost all I use.
>> No. 74766
The KGB girl's punch reminds me of the little old guy in . . I think it was virtua fighter? A bearded drunken master.


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74418 No. 74418 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Casper, are you any ballza at steganography? I saved this picture 2 years ago because the file size was way too big and the name seemed weird, but I lost interest after opening it in notepad and making it an archive didn't work. Hopefully it doesn't contain anything illegal but knowing would be cool.
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>> No. 74506
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74506
>>74476
What is your favorite dinosaur, little boy?
>> No. 74508
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74508
>>74506
I like $TEGO most cuz he balls hard
>> No. 74522
>>74506
Petrie
>> No. 74580
I hellza want to check out this picture to see what's in it but I am afraid it is full of a thousand viruses.
>> No. 74762
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74762
rude


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74627 No. 74627 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
I started using imageboards around 2007/08, first with 4 big dicks up my asshole /b/, which lasted, I don't know, a few months maybe, before the novelty wore off and this was right around the time /r9k/ was created. For those who don't know, the premise of /r9k/ was that it has a bot that doesn't let you post anything twice by logging text and images posted and blocking anything too similar to content already in the database. It wasn't perfect, as after a few months, it was hard to post and the memory would need to be wiped but overall it was a novel and effective idea, especially for a site with so much traffic.

And it was actually pretty cool for a while. I found 99 in the summer/autumn of 2008, but I still posted on /r9k/ until, I think, 2010 or so when I quit because it had started to stagnate and turned from a fun and chaotic - if uneven - humour and general discussion board with story threads and photo threads and book discussions and so on into a greentext story board and got pretty dull.

The point of this thread isn't to have another of those "how did you get here" threads. I decided to go peek in on /r9k/ tonight to see if it was still the same type of content or how it had changed or whatever.

Apparently it is now the angry misogyny echo chamber, which I'm sure people more plugged into online culture than me already know. There was a thread for "music women don't understand" where people were posting youtube links to Radiohead songs (lol), Swans albums, math rock, and Boards of Canada, all of which women apparently will never understand. I'm not stupid, so I knew what kind of response I'd get to poking at that premise but I did anyway even though I knew it would just make me frustrated and/or sad, so I made a post saying I had dated a girl who used to cry every time she heard even little bits of anything on Kid A, and a sister who loves Swans and has since the 90s.

The obvious response was that obviously lots of women like this music because they like things that are popular but they don't get it and I was also told by various posters to "stop whiteknighting." I was expecting that response even before I posted. "Well of course they like it but they don't hellza understand it." One guy told me to "calm down" because "we're just trying to have a nice thread about music. Perhaps your heated tone would work better somewhere else. Perhaps reddit." which is a baffling response.

I don't know why it upset me as much as it did, but it did. I feel like I should be able to laugh off the ridiculousness of this weird echo chamber of "I'm so special" misery but instead I'm sitting here feeling upset in a fairly complex way.

I don't know what the point of this thread is. Maybe I'm just upset and need to vent. Maybe I'm sad that a board I used to go to for entertainment when I was kind of depressed years ago and was actually kind of uplifting, if unproductive, for its humour has now become this swirling cesspool of repetitive angrysadposting. The amount of pictures that weren't the "that feel" face or that sad frog were maybe 1 for every 20. And then the fact that I was apparently ganged up on for questioning the premise of a thread about music women "don't get" is just strange. It was this conceited form of angry sadness everywhere that got to me. It's the definition of a toxic environment.

By all means check it out and report back if you want. It is one of the saddest things I've ever seen and I sometimes read wizardchan.
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>> No. 74703
>>74687
>he's not lying about anything.
That's actually a fair insight. I would say, from what I've read, that there is a lot of outright bullshit, but enough of it is... plausible enough. It's built on enough of a kernel of truth that if you're lonely and angry and desperate, it can have the ring of truth and power. "Well, evolutionarily, alpha and beta and The Red Queen and beta providers/orbiters."
>> No. 74704
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74704
Here's a thread where someone asked "why do you come to /r9k/" and there are quite a few thoughtful, self-aware answers, including a handful of posts that mirror my experience and feelings almost exactly:
http://boards.4 big dicks up my asshole.org/r9k/thread/21891084/outline-the-absolute-basic-reason-as-to-why-youre
>> No. 74708
To paraphrase Voltaire: "if /r9k/ did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it."

In other words, /r9k/ is not the problem, but merely a symptom. All those disaffected, isolated twentysomething white males were disaffected and isolated before they got there. Am I supposed to be surprised that people would feel at home in a place where others in similar situations are there to understand exactly what they're going through? That's why there are a bunch of Wojaks on there, because people do know that feel and they like knowing that others know that feel.
>> No. 74709
It's my belief that 4 big dicks up my asshole's bread and butter - particularly on their boards like /b/ - are users who are all relatively new to the chan scene and that most people leave it within a year or two, either migrating to a different chan or "out-growing" the whole chan thing altogether. Of those users, most are too young to actually be there, and any of them who stick around into legal adulthood were destined to be (wo)manchildren anyway.

"Children can be so cruel" is all there hellza is to say about the shenanigans that they get up to around there.
>> No. 74715
>>74708
Tru dat
>>74709
Tru dat

>All those disaffected, isolated twentysomething white males were disaffected and isolated before they got there
>people would feel at home in a place where others in similar situations are there to understand
Succinctly put. Rationally I'm right there with you and understood that on my first glimpse of /r9k/ as it currently is, but it still got me down to see all the aggressively bad vibes. I think the main thing that upset me was just how a person could go there because they feel bad and want to interact with others who feel the same way, but then because the place is such an echo chamber, instead of people moving on and taking steps to grow past it, they just get caught up in it and hearing the same (or worse) shitty stuff that you're putting out reflected back to you could dig someone deeper and deeper. I was a little vulnerable at the time and it got me down and made me strangely angry. I can't imagine how it would affect me if I were perennially lonely or bullied or had never had a girlfriend, etc.

I think the main thing that upset me wasn't that all these people were congregating on a board I used to like. I was in a kind of vulnerable place and the whole atmosphere just got to me more than it normally would. I'm far from naive but every so often people can still smack me in the face with their shittiness and it gets me down :-/


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74661 No. 74661 hide quickreply [Reply]
I just accidentally unknown

(USER JUST)
>> No. 74663
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74663
Oh
no
you
didn't..
>> No. 74664
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74664
Just did


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74305 No. 74305 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
http://www.urlai.com/url/99chan.org-b

Text analysis
99chan.org-b is probably written by a male somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is personal and upset most of the time.
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74312
>>74310
Obviously all data which does not support my point is merely fabricated by the Judaeo-feminist conspiracy, in this way anything I say is irrefutable.
>> No. 74314
>>74312

Cultural Marxists, tainting our precious bodily fluids.
>> No. 74398
Jokes on them I'm 101 and upset all the time

(USER SUMMONEDTO THIS THREAD)
>> No. 74589
I just noticed the angle of the guy's pinky in the tea party picture. I can't do that with my other fingers curled in, I can only get it even with my hand. It looks weird.
>> No. 74625
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74625
>>74589
Put a splint on it for a week. Everyone in Hollywood is doing it.


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74420 No. 74420 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
mahran majadly
horny for arab cocks
Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Haifa, Israel
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>> No. 74569
>>74558
It would accomplish more of what you want if you focused on the rectum rather than the anus.
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74585
>>74558
No on both accounts.
>> No. 74586
>>74548
>>74539
Since when are rape and sexual harassment synonyms?
>> No. 74588
>>74586
Since Tumblr
>> No. 74617
>>74586
I never said they were synonymous. I was tying to convey that having someone get all up in your bubble with graphic sexual proposals and then refusing to back off, even when you make your lack of interest clear, would quite rationally make a person fear that a sexual assault could take place.

Sarcastically saying "that's how rape starts" to a story about someone's personal boundaries being aggressively violated is odd, because that can often be how sexual assaults start, and it is not unreasonable to see a connection between the two behaviors.


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74452 No. 74452 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Does 99chan have any posters who are normal, functional people? People who live an average life without drugs, alcohol abuse or mental illness?
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>> No. 74581
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74581
i drink until i pass out in the street but i got a ballza job and i can never be fired cuz i'm japanese so...
>> No. 74587
>>74581
Can you hellza play the race card as an Asian though?
>> No. 74590
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74590
Maybe I've been spending on the internet, but when I read

>normal, functional people?

I was hoping to reply with great gusto that yes, I was a normal, functioning person, who had a job and interests and hobbies and aspirations, but then I read your criterion. I looked at my glass of neat Old Crow, my incest pornography collection, my diary entries ranting about my ex-best friend who never dated me because I was too unstable, the empty prescription bottles still in my room from 6 months ago, I remembered my poor grades in high school and college despite my exceptional intelligence, ballza sat scores and A+ grades in courses I found compelling...

Fuck you, OP, you cocksucking basketball american
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74598
tecia torres is a normal, well adjusted human
>> No. 74609
>>74598
She seems enthusiastic. That goes a long way in this world.


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