![]() I sometimes wonder if it became harder to store visual memories of game worlds in the 3D era – too much space, too much to see and recall. The pipes of Mushroom Kingdom, the pinball bumpers of the Green Hill Zone, the sound effects, the enemies – these are entrenched memories, as vital and emotional as pop choruses or Star Wars battle scenes. In the PC indie world, the key genres are roguelike fantasy adventures, deck-building games and “Metroidvania” platformers – all of which use 2D visuals in interesting, expressive ways.īut the return of Mario v Sonic brings with it a layer of reminiscence that will feel personal to a lot of veteran gamers. Of course, independent game studios have been exploring and experimenting with 2D visuals throughout the last decade, from the haunted realms of Inside to the colourful carnage of Super Meat Boy, and there are some treasures still on the way, including Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, Everdeep Aurora and Mineko’s Night Garden. ![]() View image in fullscreen Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Even with 3D games, publishers are looking at ways to rein in spiralling production costs. Interestingly, at the LA event, Ubisoft also showed Assassin’s Creed Mirage (pictured below), the latest title in the open-world assassination sim – only this time, the whole adventure is confined to one city. I’d love to see something like those again. I think if this is a success, we’re going to see the company bringing more of its titles back into 2D – some of my favourite Splinter Cell titles were the 2D adventures produced for early gaming mobile phones, by partner company Gameloft. I played a demo at Ubisoft’s showcase in Los Angeles and the 2D visuals brought back the sharp precision of the original titles. It’s a multi-directional scrolling adventure taking in palaces, caves and dungeons, with lots of pixel-perfect jumping, and featuring a rewind mechanic for when you inevitably fall into a pit of spikes. It’s no coincidence that Ubisoft has also taken a similar route with its latest Prince of Persia title, subtitled The Lost Crown, due for release in early 2024. Taking these games back to their roots has no doubt allowed Sega and Nintendo to focus their efforts and produce gorgeous-looking games with smaller teams in shorter production cycles. Game development has become bloated and ruinously expensive, with open 3D environments requiring years of work, vast teams and bleeding-edge physics engines. (I can’t go on, it’s too painful.) Anyway, in 2023, where the companies have moved in very different directions, the arrival of Super Mario Wonder and Sonic Superstars (with Knuckles pictured top right) so close together feels more like a statement about the industry than an attempt to outdo each other. For every Sonic Rush, there’s a Shadow the Hedgehog. While Mario games have consistently been wonderful explorations of design and technology – Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Odyssey – Sonic’s back catalogue is … patchy. Famously, when tech reporters tried to talk to Sega about the much smaller colour palette of the Mega Drive hardware compared to the Super Nintendo, Sega’s then head of marketing Al Nilsen would point at the games running side by side and yell: “Which has more colours? Can you tell? Nobody cares!”įor years, Mario has won this battle easily. While the latter was sedate, comfortable and somewhat childish, Sonic pelted across the screen like a comet, synth-rock blaring. Visitors could watch a video demo of Sonic the Hedgehog playing side-by-side with Super Mario World on a big CRT monitor in the centre of the space. ![]() At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in 1991, Sega made its rivalry with Nintendo the theme of its stand, where the Mega Drive console (known as Genesis in the US) was being shown to American audiences for the first time. Sonic can harness chaos emerald power to, say, transform into a watery version of himself so that he can swim up waterfalls.Īfter visiting the Summer Games Fest in Los Angeles earlier this month, I am thrilled to hear other attendees vividly debating the merits of the two titles. Mario can transform into an elephant and use his trunk to batter enemies. Both games allow players to select from a range of classic characters and take on the rich, lushly colourful environments in cooperative modes, and both supplement the retro aesthetics with new abilities. Both Super Mario Bros Wonder and Sega Superstars are nostalgic callbacks to the era of 2D platforming. Which is why I’m secretly delighted that Sega and Nintendo are apparently releasing their new Sonic and Mario games within days of each other this October. ![]() Whether its punks v rockers, Star Trek v Star Wars or Marvel v DC, subcultures have always defined themselves by what they’re not as much as what they are. ![]()
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![]() The Death Star’s powerful planet destroying superlaser bears a big similarity to lightsabers in that it uses an array of kyber crystals to concentrate its massive superlaser. There’s no way the Empire could have seen that coming. Since the Rebel attack in A New Hope was so small, only a few TIEs were deployed, but little did they know that Luke Skywalker would evade their defenses to land a proton torpedo in the two meter wide exhaust port opening - a shot even Wedge Antilles had declared impossible. Its defense against small fighters is supposed to come from its TIE fighter contingents. The Death Star is armed to the teeth with turbolasers, but those are geared toward defense against larger fleets of capital ships. What isn’t normal is the Rebels’ decision to attack the station with just a few fighters. One end of such a port needs to reach the main reactor, and the other needs to go out into space. ![]() Thermal exhaust ports are very necessary. The Death Star generates massive amounts of heat due to the giant reactors that power the station. The ultimate purpose of the battlestation remained military, but with a population that represented a mix of pilots, stormtroopers, officers, scientists, and a variety of other occupations, the Death Star staff were intended to accomplish much more diverse tasks than the staff of a strict military installation or Star Destroyer.įor how immense and powerful the Death Star was, the idea that it would be vulnerable to destruction because of an insignificant design feature such as a thermal exhaust port has been the subject of many jokes over the years, suggesting the empire was incompetent, or even resulting in the creation of several fan theories to explain this Imperial “oversight,” but there was nothing wrong with the existence of the thermal exhaust port - the Rebels just pulled off a miracle. ![]() Then of course the non-military staff need their own housing and amenities. All the soldiers stationed there needed ways to spend downtime, meaning non-military staff to run cantinas and restaurants, entertainment, and other amenities. The Death Star was designed to work as a city - or a even a small planet - unto itself. There’s a lot more to the planet annihilating space station of destruction than meets the eye. From its conception it was a superweapon intended to inflict fear upon its enemies and it’s biggest feature is a giant planet destroying superlaser, but the station isn’t exclusively a weapon - even if it is named “Death Star”. The Death Star is obviously primarily a military installation. Considering the superlaser was the main attraction, it’s fair to say the Death Star wasn’t complete until it became operational between Rogue One and A New Hope. The technical ability to build a massive space station was nothing special, but a weapon that’s powerful enough to destroy entire planets was a new technology, involving years of research and design - an initiative that took far longer. While it’s true that most of the stations construction was completed well before the events of A New Hope, the station was still not operational until the completion of the superlaser, which does happen much closer to A New Hope. The argument is that there’s no way it took almost two decades when so much was already done at the end of Episode III. ![]() It’s regularly pointed at as a continuity issue, because A New Hope, which takes place 18 years later, shows the Death Star’s completion. Some fans were initially outraged over the fact that much of the Death Star’s construction is underway by the end of Revenge of the Sith. Considering the Confederacy was led by various trade guilds, and the Separatists probably had the better design and manufacturing resources (their armies were all droids), taking advantage of those resources to design his superweapon fits right in line with the rest of Palpatine’s schemes. More likely than not, he actually commissioned the Separatists to design the plans in the first place. It’s not a major plot point, but a hologram of the Death Star can be seen in the conference room on Geonosis, and Count Dooku takes the plans with him when he flees.ĭooku, of course, takes the plans to Palpatine, but it’s more than likely the dark lord already knew about them, since he was guiding the Separatists as his alter ego, Darth Sidious. Among the many things revealed by the prequels, it’s shown that the plans for the Death Star originated with the Separatist Alliance. After all, fans were introduced to it as a tool of the Empire during the very first Star Wars movie in 1977. 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You can deal 10 cards from the cards remaining, one to each column if you cannot make any moves.Any group or single card you might be able to move can be placed on an empty column.If a card that is face down in a column is open it must be turned over.For example you could move a 10, 9 and 8 of diamonds as a group onto any open Jack. Groups of cards can only be moved if they are all in the same suit and are in perfect descending order.For example any 9 can be placed on any 10. A single card can only be moved to another pile if the card being moved is one less than the card it will be placed on.It's probably best to explain the detailed rules for the 4 suit version of the game first and then explain the changes for the easier two suit version and one suit version. ![]() All three use the same basic rules, but the way the cards can be moved is slightly different for the easier version. There are three possible versions of spider solitaire. These cards will cover all 8 columns, forcing you to rearrange them so you can reach any grouped columns you have created and arranged previously. You can deal more cards to the layout by clicking the card located in the bottom right. It is vitally important to use this well, as freeing up other options is exactly what this card game is about. If a column is empty you can place anything on it. For this reason wherever possible it is best to create descending columns of the same suit. When trying to move a column of cards, they can only be moved if they are all in the same suit. A Queen of Hearts can cover any Red King or Black King). A single card can be moved onto a column if it is one lower than the card it is covering (e.g. The basic rules of spider solitaire are as follows. The rest of the cards remain in the deck to be used later. The last 6 columns of cards have 4 cards dealt face down, with the fifth and final card on these columns dealt face up. The first 4 columns of cards have 5 cards that are face down with the sixth card at the bottom dealt face up. You must rearrange the deal to uncover the cards underneath. You will see at the start of the game that 10 columns are dealt at the top, with only the top card shown. Spider Solitaire is played with two decks of 52 cards with all jokers removed. When a column like this is created it is automatically removed from the game freeing up space and opening up cards for you to continue. The goal of this solitaire game is to remove 8 columns of cards at the bottom, each descending from King to Ace in a single suit. However when you do finally win, it's a great feeling! When playing spider solitaire on its most difficult setting, you will have to quit and restart many, many times. Spider solitaire requires patience, logical thinking and luck. It is also an immensely challenging free online solitaire game, that is assuming you elect to play with 4 suits! However thanks to its simple rules it is quite easy to learn how to play even if it requires some serious thought to try and win a round. Spider Solitaire is easily one of the most popular solitaire games on the internet. ![]() ![]() The left one lists the sample code, or demo, titles. The tutorials are all based on the MVDEMO sample data set (available from the map visualization component page on the Oracle Technology Network) and assume a data source named mvdemo. The tutorials start with the basics (display a map tile layer, add a navigation panel, display interactive features and information windows) and move on to more complex topics such as registering event listeners, programmatically creating and using styles, and spatial filtering. Tutorials and demos for the API are available as a standalone packaged application with the root context path /mvdemo. For detailed information about all classes in the Oracle Maps JavaScript API ), see the Javadoc-style reference documentation, which is included in the mvdemo.ear file and is available at the following location: host:port /mvdemo/api/oracle_maps_html5_api.jsp To access these functions, use the JavaScript API, which consists of several JavaScript classes. (Redline drawings are often rendered in red, although you can specify a line style that uses any color.) Redlining refers to the application user creating a polygon or polyline by clicking the mouse button and then moving the mouse and clicking multiple times, with each click extending the redline by a straight line. It implements the following functions:įetching map tiles from the map tile server and displaying them as a map tile layer in the web browser.Ĭontrolling user interaction, such as dragging for map navigation, clicking features, drawing rectangles, and redlining.ĭrawing a rectangle refers to the application user creating a rectangle by clicking and holding the mouse button at one corner of the rectangle, dragging the mouse to the diagonally opposite corner, and releasing the mouse button. People often drop pins to mark important locations, such as their home, work, or favourite restaurant, to make navigating easier in the future.The Oracle Maps JavaScript client is a browser-based map visualization engine that works on top of the map tile server and that uses HTML5 technology.Dropping a pin on Google Maps allows you to save an exact location for future reference or share it with others.Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google and provides users with a detailed view of the world from their computer or mobile device.Click on the box at the bottom of your page.For example, you can label your pin-drop “Office” and “home”. Once you’ve dropped a pin, you can label it by pressing the option “Label” at the bottom right corner. 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It is easy to do, and the benefits are numerous. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drop a Pin on Google Mapĭropping a pin on Google Maps can be a great way to remember a location, plan a trip, or share a place with friends. Have you ever wanted to drop a pin on Google Maps but weren’t sure how? Don't worry it's easy! In this guide, we'll walk you through the simple steps of how to drop a pin on Google Maps. ![]() ![]() Join the ModBem community today and discover the boundless possibilities for customizing your Minecraft Pocket Edition experience. Our website provides a seamless and hassle-free downloading experience, allowing you to quickly transform your virtual world and embark on new adventures. 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This is a great chance to try something new and then never go back to the previous option.Welcome to ModBem, your ultimate destination for enhancing your Minecraft Pocket Edition experience with a vast array of Add-ons, Shaders, and Texture Packs, all available for free!Īt ModBem, we highly prioritize the quality. With so many shaders out in the world available to players, there are tons of great options for both the Java and Bedrock versions of Minecraft. Dynamic lighting will allow you to fully immerse yourself in the gameplay, forgetting about everything else. A realistic and very bright sun will illuminate the space. Now, instead of angular clouds, beautiful cumulus clouds will appear. Shaders are a way to enhance the graphics of Minecraft Pocket Edition and take the game to the next level. The fact is that the author changed the entire color scheme of Minecraft PE, and also completely changed the sky. In general, after installing BNS Shader, the atmosphere of the cubic world will change. Thanks to the efforts of the author of BNS Shader, dark areas will appear on the surface and they will look much better than in the standard version of Minecraft PE. But only when they are not there or they are not well drawn enough, the impression of unreality of the entire space is created. In the real world, shadows are a common phenomenon that is simply not noticed. There are quite a lot of trees in Minecraft Bedrock Edition, and now their foliage will move smoothly and beautifully.Īlso, water objects received the effect of movement from the developer, small waves appeared on their surface. The first thing that catches your eye after installing BNS Shader is animation. Shadows will also be visible on the surface, and dynamic lighting will create an incredible atmosphere. Some popular shader packs for Minecraft Pocket Edition include Lumen RTX Shader, Bicubic Shader, and Universal Shaders. There will be an animation of foliage and clouds, which in general will look more realistic. ![]() ![]() SEUS adds an element of reality to the graphics that really adds to the vanilla gameplay. ![]() SEUS Shaders brings the game to life by highlighting the natural properties of the different game components. Additional effects are available, such as depth of field, motion blur, specular and normal. List 5 Best Minecraft shaders for Pocket Edition (PS4, Xbox, Mobile) : 1. This shader includes realtime shadows, volumetric light, ambient occlusion, bloom, customizable clouds and water, and built in anti-aliasing. The author of BNS Shader came to their aid and created a truly unique update for the cubic world.Īfter installing it, you will notice changes in all aspects of the graphics component of the game. BSL Shaders is a shaderpack made exclusively for Minecraft: Java Edition. All kinds of Shaders to change the look of Minecraft PE in your game. 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Thus, the domain of f(x) = x 2 is all x-values. ![]() If you want to know more about statistics, methodology, or research bias, make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations and examples.There are no x-values that will result in the function being undefined and matter what real x-value we plug in, the result will always be a real y-value. The median is a better measure for these distributions as it takes a value from the middle of the distribution.Īlternatively, you can systematically review and remove outliers from your dataset in the data cleansing process. One side has a more spread out and longer tail with fewer scores at one end than the other.įor skewed distributions and distributions with outliers, the mean is easily influenced by extreme values and may not accurately represent the central tendency. In skewed distributions, more values fall on one side of the center than the other, and the mean, median and mode all differ from each other. The mean, mode and median are exactly the same in a normal distribution. Most values cluster around a central region, with values tapering off as they go further away from the center. In a normal distribution, data is symmetrically distributed with no skew. The mean is best for data sets with normal distributions. With these, you can easily calculate the mean or median. For categorical variables, the mode is the best measure of central tendency because it tells you the most common characteristic or popular choice for your sample.īut for continuous or discrete variables, you have exact numerical values. In categorical variables, data is placed into groupings without exact numerical values, so the mean cannot be calculated. The mean can only be calculated for quantitative variables (e.g., height), and it can’t be found for categorical variables (e.g., gender). The best measure of central tendency depends on your type of variable and the shape of your distribution. ![]() The mean is the most widely used measure of central tendency because it uses all values in its calculation. In this case, a different measure of central tendency, like the median, would be more appropriate.ĭiscover proofreading & editing When can you use the mean, median or mode? Step 2: Divide the sum by the number of values FormulaĪs we can see, adding just one outlier to our data set raised the mean by 20 USD. Step 1: Find the sum of the values by adding them all up FormulaĤ2 + 13 + 31 + 87 + 24 + 58 + 76 + 69 + 230 = 630 Let’s see what happens to the mean when we add an outlier to our data set. ![]() Because all values are used in the calculation of the mean, an outlier can have a dramatic effect on the mean by pulling the mean away from the majority of the values. Outliers are extreme values that differ from most values in the data set. The mean tells us that in our sample, participants spent an average of 50 USD on their restaurant bill. In the formula, n is the number of values in your data set. Step 2: Divide the sum by the number of values ![]() Step 1: Find the sum of the values by adding them all upīecause we’re working with a sample, we use the sample formula. You ask a sample of 8 neighbors how much they spent the last time they went out for dinner, and find the mean cost. Let’s say you want to find the average amount people spend on a restaurant meal in your neighborhood. We’ll walk through these steps with a sample data set. Divide this number by the number of values.There are two steps for calculating the mean: The sample mean is also referred to as M. The population mean can also be denoted as μ. Population attributes use capital letters while sample attributes use lowercase letters. The formulas for the sample mean and the population mean only differ in mathematical notation. In research, you often collect data from samples and perform inferential statistics to understand the population they came from. Discover proofreading & editing Mean formulas for populations and samples ![]() ![]() This Spider Solitaire will also run on tablets and mobile devices. Take advantage of your desktop monitor and play FULL SCREEN, is a lot more fun and immersive. This HTML5 version gives the option to play with 1,2 or 4 decks or suits. Spider solitaire originated in 1947 and it is usually played with 2 decks. This is the classic and most popular solitaire card game to play online. You still build sequences with like suits, but multiple suits offer a layer of complexity and difficulty that you wouldn’t get otherwise.Click to play Spider Solitaire Card Games As the names suggest, these versions introduce more than one suit into the game. Yes! In fact, we have three different versions: classic Spider, Two Suit Spider, and Four Suit Spider. Are there harder versions of Spider Solitaire? It became one of the most popular versions of Solitaire because of its inclusion on Windows computers by default. It was named Spider Solitaire because of the eight foundation piles used. Solitaire games have been around since the 18th century, but Spider Solitaire wasn’t introduced to the world until 1949. As you play more, you’ll start to understand things like where you should place cards and what plays aren’t optimal. You’re not going to be able to control the cards that are dealt, but you can control where they go once they’re in play. Like all Solitaire games, Spider Solitaire requires a careful balance between skill and chance. Luckily, there’s no shame in starting over, especially if you’re a new player! Is Spider Solitaire a game of skill? Spider Solitaire can quickly get out of hand if you’re not playing your cards right. Now, whether or not you’ll be good at it right away is a different story. Nope! You can be a complete beginner to Solitaire games and still enjoy Spider Solitaire. ![]() Does Spider Solitaire require experience to play? Depending on the type of Spider Solitaire you’re playing, you may not use all four suits, but every version of Klondike uses all four suits. Also, in Klondike, you’re building foundations from Ace to King per suit in Spider, you’re building sequences from King to Ace. For one, Spider Solitaire uses two standard 52-card decks, while Klondike only uses one. Klondike, what Americans and Canadians simply call Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire have a lot of differences. What are the differences between Solitaire and Spider Solitaire? A lot of the game is putting pieces together that you’ve been building since the start. One of the best strategies is to build one or two sequences at a time while also stacking together cards that go together. The sooner you complete a sequence, the sooner it’ll be out of the way of other sequences. Always make sure you’ve done everything you can to reveal cards before drawing from the stock.Īnother big point of the game is getting sequences out of play. When these are left unrevealed for too long, stacks will continue to build on top of them, making them harder to reveal. The cards you draw may fill in an area on another side of the board.Īlso, you should try to get the face-down cards on the tableau revealed as soon as possible. What this means is that in order to win Spider Solitaire, it’s best to be careful with where you place cards, but also flexible enough to adjust on the fly. You’ll eventually need to draw cards, and this can cut off sequences if you’re not careful. You can certainly get lucky with your hand, but that luck will run out at some point. Spider Solitaire is all about organization. This becomes a bit tricky the more sequences you complete, as there are fewer cards in play.Īgain, once you’ve completed eight sequences, you win! Importantly, if you want to draw from the stock pile, you must fill any empty space on the board before doing so. ![]() In the event that you have an empty column, you can move any card or stack into that space. You’ll need to move these cards to another column if you want to keep building the sequence behind it. As you can see, this will blur the cards above it if it doesn’t add to the sequence. This will add one card to the bottom of each stack. When you’ve run out of available moves with the original tableau (that’s the playing area), you can draw from the stock pile in the bottom right corner. ![]() The objective of the game is to create eight sequences, thus using all 104 cards in play. A full sequence is King to Ace, and when this is completed, the sequence is taken off the board. As shown above, a sequence is cards in order, with the highest up top and the lowest at the bottom. Unlike regular Solitaire, you won’t be building foundations instead, you’ll create sequences. This version of the game uses one suit, but you can find two and four suit variants below. The game uses two decks of cards, meaning you’ll be dealing with 104 cards. When you begin, you’ll have eight different stacks of cards-that’s where the name “Spider” comes from. ![]() ![]() ![]() We had fun trying to knock this one down, and even used the Han in Carbonite Bird to attack a few times. I thought the archway from the cantina worked pretty well for Jabba’s archway. I ended up getting the Mystery Bag-exclusive characters on eBay since I didn’t feel like spending $4 a pop to end up with figures I already had.īy the way, here’s a little Jabba’s Palace setup that I tried making with the blocks from the Jabba’s Palace, Jenga Tatooine Battle, and Fight on Tatooine sets. I couldn’t find any at my store, so maybe someone beat me to him. Han in Carbonite is one that you would certainly want for a Jabba’s Palace display, but he should be fairly easy to “feel” in the Mystery Bags, since he’s the only flat character. TAT: Fight on Tatooine Battle Game, EB: Early Birds Package, JP: Jabba’s Palace) Name of Figure ( Red = Exclusive)Īs you can see, there are two figures that are only available in the Mystery Bags (plus Jedi Luke, as I mentioned above). ( MB: Mystery Bag, AT-AT: AT-AT Attack Battle Game, DV: Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Battle Game In addition to these, the Jedi Luke Bird is only available in the Mystery Bags at the moment, but since Hasbro doesn’t refer to him as an exclusive on their checklist I’m guessing that he will appear in a future set.Īngry Birds Star Wars Figure Checklist (Wave 1) ![]() ![]() (The figures in the Jenga sets are bigger and only have a subset of the characters available in the main sets, so I’m going to ignore these for the purposes of this checklist.) At present, there are 22 figures total, with 7 exclusive figures (meaning that you can only get the figure in one set or only in the randomly packed Mystery Bags). There is a sort of checklist included with the toys, but it doesn’t give all of this information. In case anyone else wants to do the same, I thought it would be useful to come up with a checklist showing which figures come with which sets. I ended up buying all of the toy sets, partially because I wanted to get a complete set of the figures. Over Thanksgiving vacation, my son and I played with the Death Star and AT-AT sets (which I managed to get for around half off, for the record) and enjoyed them quite a bit. However, I will say that playing with an enthusiastic seven-year-old makes these sets a lot more fun. As captain of the Millennium Falcon, Han and his co-pilot Chewbacca came to believe in the cause of galactic freedom, joining Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa in the fight against the Empire. With the non-Jenga sets in particular there aren’t any rules - you just set up the blocks and try to knock them down. Han Solo rose from an impoverished childhood on the mean streets of Corellia to become one of the heroes of the Rebel Alliance. I wrote about the Jabba’s Palace Battle Game and Jenga Tatooine Battle Game earlier, and was a little critical of them as toys, since they’re quite simple. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi parts aren’t available yet, though, so we can’t see Jabba in the game just yet. Sure, it’s still basically Angry Birds with some Star Wars stuff added, but it’s been done intelligently, with some details that only Star Wars fans would really appreciate. As you may know, the Angry Birds Star Wars app came out earlier this month, and I think it’s quite good. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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