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| ==Stop Everything== | | ===EX3=== |
| You guys heard, right?
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 19:44, 30 October 2012 (EDT) | |
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| Doesn't matter where we all are three years from now, 2015 midnight showing. Be there.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 11:34, 31 October 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Next Session==
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| I will be in Europe for the next two full weekends, and just back into town for the third (Nov. 17-18) So the soonest I will be available would be that weekend, but it's also fairly likely I won't have time to RP that weekend. Just a heads up. Also, I told Dan but for Brian's info, Drue said to text him next time we plan to play and he would try to make it. So we might have a 4th again. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 10:11, 30 October 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Edge of the Empire==
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| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntdoSK9CNV7lxRRM8HcvYSMXX1KCst9d7760Q1ZhWf0
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| What is Edge of the Empire? How is everybody? I MISS YOUR MUSKS(S).
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 14:46, 21 October 2012 (EDT)
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| New Star Wars Table Top game being made by the company that distributed Anima. Might be pretty cool, but still in beta and we haven't been able to track down a pdf.
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| http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=218
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| Also: When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together! --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 17:56, 21 October 2012 (EDT)
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| Take it easy, Champ. Also, that's pretty awesome. If nothing else, I'm hoping it results in some kick-ass Star Wars artwork. Also, if you haven't seen this, presented for your viewing pleasure:
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| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdzMuo3njGM&feature=player_embedded]
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| If it's not apparent what this is immediately, make sure you watch until the end. It's in Japanese, but that never stopped us before.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 08:50, 22 October 2012 (EDT)
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| Also, the future is now:
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| http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i16/e163903
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| Working implementation of a tractor beam. Just sayin'.
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| Awesome on both counts. I had actually seen that trailer previously, and I heard the movie itself is surprisingly good. (Kotaku reviewed it I think). It goes without saying I'd see it in a heartbeat if I could get my hands on a subbed copy. Hell, I'd probably sit though it in Japanese with no subs. Lol Also, we need to start putting tractor beams on shit ASAP. I would be willing to completely reverse my stance against NASA if they had tractor beams. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 18:36, 23 October 2012 (EDT)
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| I'm curious why you have a stance against NASA in the first place..... the greatest and most inspirational institution in human history. [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 11:15, 24 October 2012 (EDT)
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| Have you seen Mars Attacks? Independence Day? The Ghost of Mars? Need I go on? Best case scenario we discover nothing. Worse case scenario we bring the end of the world upon ourselves. Have you ever seen a space movie when they go out into space and they find all good things? Ever? Didn't think so. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 21:07, 24 October 2012 (EDT)
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| You make a good point, but in 2 of those 3 cases, the aliens found us, not the other way around. NASA's progress could help protect us from events like those. My counter argument would be, have you seen Star Wars? If certain Multiverse theories are correct, then there is a galaxy far, far away that we must find. [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 15:17, 25 October 2012 (EDT)
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| ==There is no spoon==
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| We can now harvest electricity physiologically produced by snails. Just sayin', that's how it starts.
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| http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja211714w
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 14:03, 24 July 2012 (EDT)
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| At least now we know we are not ''currently'' in the matrix. The robots would never let us get this close to discovering their secret. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 16:16, 24 July 2012 (EDT)
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| Do you guys ever just sit there and click the refresh button over and over to read the random quote? That was the best decision ever. Every single one is awesome. Good times, gentlemen. Good times.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 01:37, 2 August 2012 (EDT)
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| Yea, between random quote and random page I spend at least a few minutes almost everyday here. Good times indeed. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 21:18, 2 August 2012 (EDT)
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| ==News==
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| I love it when we take small steps toward our Shadowrun future. [http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/09/1625259/anti-wifi-wallpaper-available-next-year http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/09/1625259/anti-wifi-wallpaper-available-next-year] [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 13:37, 9 May 2012 (EDT)
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| Also, posted this at 13:37. [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 13:37, 9 May 2012 (EDT)
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| This is awesome. This summer I'm going to attempt something sort of similar for visible light by attempting to fabricate a grating with nanometer sized holes made of a material which turns into a metal when heated up (this is rare). At room temperature, it's basically rubber, and the holes don't do anything - they just pass light through normally. When you heat the material up, it turns into a metal, and boom - suddenly those little holes act just like the silver particles in that article, except for visible EM radiation waves instead of WiFi wavelengths. Basically, it's an optical diffraction grating with a temperature switch. When you heat the material up, suddenly only certain wavelengths of light will be filtered/passed through. The main uses of it are actually in solar energy, though - unfortunately, you can only filter/transmit a few specific wavelengths. To implement a cloaking device one would need to simultaneously manipulate the entire visible spectrum in a continuous, controllable way. There are also people at NU trying to do that, but I'm not among them.
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| Also sorry my posting rate has declined - my qualifying exam (probably the biggest, although not final, official hurdle to getting a PhD - once you pass your QE it's just however long it takes you to finish a thesis, which is commonly 3 years, but the last real limit is this QE) is May 22 and I'm in Santa Fe for a conference the week before that, where I'm giving a talk. After that, I'll be back in business. Anyone gonna be in France in late June, early July? I know some of you are quite the world travellers.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 18:43, 9 May 2012 (EDT)
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| Eh, some of those statistics are skewed. Just remember that [http://aartedafuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/secessao.html some sites] link to our maps of the world... possibly mistaking them for reality? I really can't tell. [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 05:35, 15 April 2012 (EDT) | | Eh, some of those statistics are skewed. Just remember that [http://aartedafuga.blogspot.com/2009/06/secessao.html some sites] link to our maps of the world... possibly mistaking them for reality? I really can't tell. [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 05:35, 15 April 2012 (EDT) |
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| ==Music==
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| Not normally a big music guy but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siubz3wJ9sc Lacuna Coil's cover of R.E.M.'s Losing my Religion] is amazing.
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| [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 03:50, 8 April 2012 (EDT)
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| Two awesome bands, one epic song. Good find. --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 10:28, 8 April 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Whiskey Tango Foxtrot==
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| I hit random page and was taken here: [[DJ Spiinerz]]. Lovin' it.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 10:52, 6 April 2012 (EDT)
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| Edit: What's awesome is that about 2 minutes after posting that I actually remember who this was.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 10:53, 6 April 2012 (EDT)
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| DH you have this problem? [http://xkcd.com/1039/ http://xkcd.com/1039/]
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| [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 12:40, 6 April 2012 (EDT)
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| I needed the discussion page to remember. Epic.
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| --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 00:05, 7 April 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Shadowrun Video Game Done Right==
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| http://kotaku.com/5898926/the-shadowrun-video-game-youve-always-wanted
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| Pretty awesome idea.
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| ==Daily Show==
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| http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-march-7-2012-cecile-richards jump to minute 7:30
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| http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html
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| ==SORRY==
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| To make up for my negligence in posting the past couple weeks, I give you this:
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| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE| The Real Mitt Romney]
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| It's probably one in top 10 funniest internet videos I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch it. Now.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 10:49, 22 March 2012 (EDT)
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| I couldn't stop laughing [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 16:53, 25 March 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Abyssal Storyline==
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| ===Direction===
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| What sort of SL do we want?
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| * More in Creation or The Underworld?
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| * Heavy in Combat? Politics? Spying? Occult? Religion?
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| * Do we want characters who are well supported by their Deathlord? On their own? Rogue? Watched closely?
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| ===Location===
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| Mostly if in Creation, but also if in Underworld is there a locale we prefer?
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| * North? South? East? West?
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| * Stygia? Labyrinth? Other?
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| ===Deathlord===
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| * Eye and Seven Despairs - Might be my favorite for an existing Deathlord, a bit outside the box as normal with some interesting potential.
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| * Walker in Darkness -
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| * First and Forsaken Lion -
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| * Sijian - There is a passage in the Walker in Darkness section suggesting Walker may have given Sijian one or several Monstrances which would allow them to have abyssals possibly. Its very not clearly defined, but it could be interesting.
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| * Create our own Deathlord - An endless amount of possibility here that I think would be intriquing and fun. Perfectly willing to help create the deathlord and his/her Empire.
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| Initial ideas: It sounded to me that we were leaning towards making our own deathlord and playing in the East. I have some ideas based on those assumptions. You would be serving the 13th Deathlord. She was a night caste in the First Age. She served in a secret police role. She was mad well before the Usurpation. By the time the Solars were overthrown, she had secretly started hunting solars, gods, and other powerful essence users for sport. She used the armor of the unseen assassin to avoid detection in her activities, which allowed her to avoid death for much longer than most Solars. She may have never been caught if she had been able to resist the temption to continue hunting powerful individuals. When she died, she couldnt accept the Neverborn's offer fast enough. She raged against those that had turned on her. The promise of revenge on her betrayers and the ability to hunt everything into extinction was more than she could ever hope for.
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| Unlike the other deathlords, she does not have plans for the direct destruction of creation. She instead works to remove obstacles from the other Deathlords' paths. She also works to police the Underworld. She has no desire to rule when the rest of creation crashed into the Underworld. Instead, she waits for the oppurtunity to hunt the other Deathlords and any remaining exalts, gods, elementals, yozi, primordials, and ghosts. Then, when there is nothing left to hunt, she will fade into Oblivion, at peace at last.
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| The deathlords primary manse would be in the east. The manse would not be in a shadowland, yet. The first story would either center around Chanta or Mt Megalopoulos (however you spell it), in Creation. I would guess 75% in creation and 25% in the underworld. How you accomplish your goals will mostly be determined by the kinds of characters you make. If we went with this, the only thing really left to decide is whether you are loyal, want to escape your deathlords control, or have the characters split in that regard. Obviously all three will have very different types of stories.
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| --[[User:Macabreengel|Macabreengel]] 14:30, 22 March 2012 (EDT)
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| ==Star Wars Uncut==
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| This is pretty awesome - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezeYJUz-84 Star Wars Uncut] and yes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezeYJUz-84#t=49m12s Han shoots first!]
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| ==Pizza==
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| *Tony: $
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| *Brian: $
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| *Dan & Hil: $
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| ==Left Frame==
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| Anyone else having issues with the display of the left frame on the site? For some reason mine starts way down the page instead of at the top of the page like its supposed to. Not sure what, if anything has changed since before the new year and I'm not having the same thing with any other sites... --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 22:47, 1 January 2012 (EST)
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| Has your browser updated itself at all? I was playing around with my Linux installation today and I noticed that some versions of WebKit based browsers (which includes Chrome) display this exact issue. Is it like what I've shown below? (Notice how the sidebar doesn't start until after 'Archives' in the main window):
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 23:42, 1 January 2012 (EST)
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| Yep, that is what it looks like. I'm using FireFox atm, I can't remember for sure if it updated recently or not, but I think it might have... It actually looks okay on Chrome, though I haven't used Chrome for a while and it might need a update... --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 10:54, 2 January 2012 (EST)
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| I am having the issue too....not sure what is causing it [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 20:06, 2 January 2012 (EST)
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| Mine is fixed. New version of Firefox recently came out. Brian did you change anything or did the Firefox update do it? --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 18:54, 4 February 2012 (EST)
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| It is fixed for me to. The wiki is self healing! [[User:Kirkland|Kirkland]] 11:45, 7 February 2012 (EST)
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| ==Linux v. Windows==
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| I had to tell someone. I figured Kirk would appreciate this. Bluetooth quit working spontaneously on my Windows install, and I had been thinking of installing Linux on my work laptop for awhile (I was sick of X11 tunneling with PuTTY in Windows), so I decided to install it. I was feeling a little bit rusty on my *nix skills, so to get back in the game, I installed ArchLinux (I thought about installing FreeBSD, but that's a bridge too far), a notoriously bitchy distro that makes you do everything from the ground up.
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| Bluetooth worked ''out of the box''. On a distro that prides itself on installing essentially nothing out of the box. I was slack-jawed.
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| [[User:Olaf|Dan]] 15:27, 24 December 2011 (EST)
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| ==Scion Quick Reference==
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| http://www.colugo.org/jmcmurra/generators/inc/dhtml-suite/scion/scionscreen.php
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| ==Legend==
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| Just heard about this really cool sounding RPG on Slashdot/RPG.net. Its based on D20 but seems to have changed up quite a bit of stuff, RPG.net gives it a glowing review. [http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15453.phtml]
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| Downloading the pdf is free (Pay whatever you like) and they are donating all proceeds to charity which is bonus. I downloaded the pdf and assuming it's not crap will probably give a bit of a donation.
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| Legends website is here: [http://www.ruleofcool.com/?page_id=34]
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| --[[User:FyreFly|FyreFly]] 00:03, 29 November 2011 (EST)
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