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 Grandma, Why Are You Doing This? Jimmy and the Pulsating mass is an amazing game. It's a more complicated, more rich Earthbound-style game that both pays respect to and improves on the original game. It's beautiful, it's funny, it's sad and it's very, very deep. Buy this game. Then watch the LP because you are a working adult with an enormous games backlog and really don't want to gamble on an RPG that's not made by a major studio that's 50 hours long. Do it so you can have something to idly tool around and listen to while you dick with on your phone or other websites or even grindy games. Because you shouldn't miss this one. What is Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass? Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass was released in August of 2018. It was made by one person, Kasey Ozymy. He did EVERYTHING. He made the graphics, the music, the design, everything except for some minor scripts. It's Jimmy's adventure. How Are We Going to Do This? This will be video. If I can figure out how to capture gifs well enough to do it justice, I'll post them. Because this game is imminently ripe for gifs. I'm going to edit out a lot of repetitive combat and grind off-screen so you don't have to watch it. But ideally we'll see every fight at least once and they're worth watching. I'll also be rotating commentators. More on that below. If you have any criticism or want some changes made, give me a heads up. I'll try to do two tv-show length episodes (~22-30 minutes) every week. Usually Monday and Thursday. Sometimes Sunday or Wednesday. Never Late. The Grandma Express is always on time. Spoilers? No loving spoilers. Period. If I miss something, PM me. Let's do it! Commentary On (Playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNr5681FV38xQo1dDBvfsBGn18FAwOeA2)                                              No Commentary (Playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNr5681FV38w0rDLzMWybsMNijpcL-ArH)                                             Bonus Videos!    https://youtu.be/bwtN5BqaBJo The ultimate shame G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Success Storiesthecluckmeme posted:god dammit I don't have the time to play this game but I bought the game anyway because it's about this point in the game where I'm getting the same vibes as meeting papyrus in Undertale where I know for a drat fact this game is as polished and loved as my grandmother's cutlery set. Ayndin posted:
Roobanguy posted:This lp made me buy the game, and I’m probably near the end and gently caress man, this game is good. Taberquol posted:That is a wonderful dev diary. DiggityDoink posted:I just bought this game so I'm gonna have to skip the rest of this LP. But don't worry, the LP is the reason I bought it in the first place so thanks for the preview of what's to come. Plant MONSTER. posted:I went and bought this game cause of this LP. It is very good. Nocheez posted:FYI, I bought this game last night because of this thread. I only watched the first LP episode but I decided I'd rather play it for myself and be surprised. I made it to Smile last night and get to shake the poo poo outta people now Tellaris posted:I would just like to say that the banner ads brought me here, the first video enticed me, and I have subsequently purchased and beaten this game. I loved it so much I have managed to get 3 other people to buy it as well. It is a crime that this game didn't get as much recognition as it deserves. Jade Rider posted:Also I'll throw my hat in the proverbial ring for guest commentary. I picked this up a while back because of this thread and have been enjoying it gently caress yeah! Fan Art  Kad made this!  SystemLogoff is making this!  SystemLogoff's painting is progressing nicely!  Oh my god Kad  Inflatable Fish made Woodlice under a Log! I'm calling it a postmodern interpretation.  Mizuti made this bird! HONK  Mizuti made this flower with a pithy observation!  I'm losing my poo poo at Johnny Cats. Thanks Kad!  Look at Mizuti's little stinky prince!  Kad, I feel like this should be a magazine cover.  Kad's drawing is simply marvelous and very froggy indeed  Kad drew a doggy   Kad has discovered what it's like to be a dad.  Mizuti has captured my spirit animal  Mizuti has the rotting jack-o-lantern that I love that gets the squirrels drunk!  Lord Hippoman is showing us what Today's sexy vampires can't do!  Kad, why? No one needs this much ice cream!  Plant Monster knows me well.  Plant Monster knows me a little too well. Co-Commentators! I like to rotate co-commentators and I've got open signups. The general list is below. I'm going to mix it up frequently but generally this will be the list I pick from. If you want in, let me know and I'll add you. This is going to be a long one. I'll usually get with you about a week out and holler at you. Upcoming guest commentator list: Dead Man’s Teaparty Violet Broregarde FluffyDeathBringer Ayndin HuskyHog I ideally try to keep a mix of men, women and non-binary people for different viewpoints. In actuality, what happens is mostly men sign up. And that's good but if you identify as female or nonbinary or are a transman, let me know and I'll bump you up the list because different viewpoints are important. If there's an LPer you want me to contact to see if I can get them to guest, let me know. If you are an LPer and want to guest, gently caress yes, come hang out. If you want to skip the line, complete the challenge. This applies to past commentators and future. Current Challenge: Eat at Golden Corral. Provide Proof. Past Challenges FAQ Where's Scabs? I try to have Scabs in each episode. Scabs is a cat. Good luck getting them to do what they don't want. Sometimes we gotta record in the morning on a weekend and she is DEFINITELY asleep. Sometimes we record while Katherine is in the shower and Scabs is trying to rescue her from the terrible water. Where's Katherine? I would love for Kat to do more episodes. But I've got an incredible stable full of commentators in the wings and I like making new friends too. I'll have her on every so often but if you want more Katherine, she usually streams with me. Bestiary Solitair is doing some chronology of the bestiary and some furniture glossaries and filling in some of the gaps I gloss over to focus on talking about penises and Subway and Lunchables and garbage. First Post Second Post Third post Fourth post Fifth post Sixth post Seventh post Eighth post G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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I've been trying to carve out time on the weekends for it, it's worth it.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Listen, I know that game left its scars, but you gotta move past it. It doesn't have to affect every game you LP from here on out. True story: the original video had one frame of Yiik to start. I have no idea how it got there. It just wanted to haunt me. I've fixed it.
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BioEnchanted posted:I've just finished this game, so looking forward to seeing the discussion that comes out of this LP. There was a megathread for the game itself but it only lasted 3 posts before dying. Already Helga and Andrew have more characterization than every single person in Yiik except for Alex. It's in the little things-- Helga's dialogue with Jimmy, Andrew's fascination with crystals and huge vocabulary, the relationship they have with each other. Then there's the things they do behind closed doors, which even in and of itself have a lot of depth.  It's such a deeper gag than "Rory's mom is all legs, get it?" There's going to be a lot of yiik comparisons because both games had somewhat similar goals.
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Neither exasterate nor minaculation is a real word. I'm so angry right now.
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Yeah, after voiceofdog's post that snapped into context for me. It's pretty rad.
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Since we're about halfway between updates, I wanted to introduce a feature about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass but it's really about Kasey Ozymy. Kasey was(is?) a really prolific poster and blogger over at RPGMaker so there's years worth of his stuff over on a dev diary there, including forum posts to other RPGmaker users. A lot of you have shown interest in game design and game design process and while it's not commercial design, it's still interesting to look at how he was making it. Kasey is super supportive of fan work and I'll link him this thread when there's some more videos up. The url for his rpgmaker posts are Here for people who want to go digging. They're mostly design focused. quote:
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NewMars posted:Edit: On second thought, I should PM grandmaparty about this.  LP OVER TIME FOR GOLF STORY No, not really. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 00:15 on May 8, 2019 |
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We gotta talk about this next episode before it goes up. 1)  gently caress. 2) Scabs was not nearby to meow into the microphone in tomorrow's episode. She was too busy trying to save Katherine from the shower. And howling. Please accept this picture of Scabs and if you miss her come bother me on the rare occasion I stream and I'll get you your howls. 
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Episode 2 is up! Special Guest: Eat Faster. Jimmy's still in the introductory phase. We get to see a cute town populated by cute people, get used to our battle system And then shake a whole lot of mice. We also meet the badass of all badasses, Mr. Cat. Cutscene Commentary On No Commentary
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pumpinglemma posted:The goon looks so happy when he's shaking people. Whoa whoa whoa. If this happened this needs to be addressed immediately. What'd I do?
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Leroy Dennui posted:Guessing it's the "Chinese food is cat meat" joke. Oh hell. One of my Dad's lovely boomer prejudice jokes slipped through without me thinking about it rationally and I can definitely see where they are coming from. Totally did not mean to fall back into that old stupid joke and didn't consider it and I'm sorry. I'm torn as to what to do-- I can go back, edit it and reupload the video tonight (no problem) Or I can leave it up with this statement owning what I did and apologizing; Or A little bit of Both. Edit: I thought about it and I think the correct thing to do is own, it, apologize for it, edit the video and make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm not going to delete these posts and I'm not going to cover it over. Hopefully you can forgive me and I'll make sure it doesn't happen again because 1) that's totally not the way I feel about China, Chinese people or Chinese food (I know what ants climb a tree is for God's sake) and 2) I didn't think it through. I've pulled the video and I'm re-uploading first thing when I get home in an hour. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 9, 2019 |
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, I thought it was a bit incongruous with how cool you seemed in the OP. It's kind of hosed up when you try to work on your prejudices and see one you missed and freak out. Thanks for the heads up and I'll look for it in the future. There ain't gonna be any racist, sexist, anti-gay, anti-religious or anti-trans jokes in this LP  I say that in the LP where my wife says "Maybe he's going to prep the bull" and I tell Doc to "Suck my entire dick" and then to "Eat glass." G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 9, 2019 |
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I'm not actually Chinese so I don't really get to judge here. But I am gay, so for what it's worth, if it had been an anti-gay joke then I'd say this is exactly the right response - apologise, take it out of the video, and be more careful in future. Everyone's got some internal prejudice going on, everyone fucks up sometimes, and for me what really matters is that we keep trying to be better.
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Video Nasty posted:Hello yes hi I would like to guest commentate with you please too thanks. You got it. Thank you!
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I no poo poo thought about doing a video of me shaking things to this song (or shaky shaky or Shake it Off) but the copyright claim would get me. Revised Episode 2 is now up. Since I had 4 seconds of dead air, I took the time to edit in Scabs. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 00:32 on May 10, 2019 |
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On one hand, I really like shaking things and I love that Kasey put it in and everyone's got unique shaking dialogue. On the other hand no one likes getting shaken and I'm a monster. Moral quandary.
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Qrr posted:Something kind of fun that you can do - if you press the form action button as base Jimmy you get to see his thoughts on the area you're in. I had no clue. I'll go snap shots of this and the Mr. Beaver dialogue today. We will take a tour of Mr. Beaver's home later.
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Mill Village posted:It doesn’t get that bad. The main problem is you have to grind on the default difficulty because the bosses are big difficulty spikes. Guess what y'all don't have to watch or do Screenshots! If you don't touch the gross blob, you get the option to lick it.  Jimmy's field action in the beginning:  Jimmy's field action in the Cloudy Hills  Mr. Beaver 1:  Mr. Beaver 2: 
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Ayndin posted:I think you put in the wrong screenshot for one of these? Got it. Thanks! I will shake everything but Timothy Mouse for reasons that make me sad (he calls you a jerk if you shake him every time).
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Deadmans Tea Party posted:I’ll put my hand up to do a commentary, if only just to prove I am not totally fuelled by anger. Ennui is the one that angers me the most because I get no exp. Terminal definitely kills you in 3 turns which is probably the nastiest. I've got you on the list! I just did it with Ibble who's in Malaysia so no worries. We'll do it on a Saturday/Sunday morning/evening Let's take a look at our new form. quote:Let’s Get to Know You, Low-Level Goon!
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Oxxidation posted:jimmy might have the single best Steal command in the whole genre Mill Village posted:I didn't steal very often when I played this game. Apparently there's some amusing results if you steal from certain enemies, though. We are going to steal everything that isn't bolted down. You will see every possible entertaining item stolen. We will steal turtles. We will steal dignity. We will steal voice boxes. We will steal furniture. We will steal stuffed versions of animals from other animals. Stealing rules.
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Episode 3 is up! I gotta drive an hour in the morning. Special Guest: Ibblebibble, who is running the Girls Frontline thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3885085 and co-commentating on a Dragon's Dogma thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3889074 This is a real cultural episode. We learn things about Malaysia. And what people eat in Malaysia. And how Southeast Asia, when looked at correctly, looks like a cock and balls. And where Malaysia is on that cock and balls. And we learn what bees do to flowers. Finally, I start doing what I do best: Stealing everything that isn't nailed down. I steal a tasty apple out of a dogsquirrel's mouth and make my brother eat some. I also steal a stuffed animal from a real animal. Cutscene Commentary On No Commentary Some quick discussion: 1) Since Ibble was up late and is 13 hours ahead, we had to record at a weird hour. Scabs was asleep. After I made fun of Katherine for feeding a bee out of a teaspoon when it was tired and motioned for her to squeeze a cat, she poked her head out of her computer monitor and gave a real smug nooooooooo headshake. I learned it meant that the cat was sleepy and did not want to meow instead of vengeance. 2) Good news: the next episode is loving phenomenal. Like gameplay wise it would survive without commentary. Bad news: I have laryngitis and cannot talk and do not maintain a backlog. I'm going to work on getting better but I have to talk for a loving living. 
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BioEnchanted posted:I know how you feel, I work in a call centre doing tech support. Oh God. That's all day talking. I can't imagine how bad you have it. I want to talk about the sunflower fight as good game design. Basically, it outheals all the damage you can do--but it's slow. And it also shows its strength as a character in it's heals. So one, you've got to burst down the poor bees. Then the thing keeps outhealing your damage unless you taunt it, which you can quickly figure out because you've got four abilities. Big fan, man. Plus Helga's bee story. Seriously love her. We've seen her for three minutes and already have an idea of who she is. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 13, 2019 |
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Ibblebibble posted:lol, I never did get to tell you what my raifus were. Now's your chance! Also:  That is 100% a dick. Take that, Florida. Edit: Oh hell, while we're here, some culture.  Is char kway teow. It's stir fried noodles and savory AF.  Is G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 13, 2019 |
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I've been scratching my head at this last one. I think the problem is now that I'm playing a good game, I can't just talk about whatever anymore and I've got to focus on the game. There'll still be time for bullshitting but I'm going to make the upcoming episodes more Jimmy-focused. Katherine dosed me up with a load of melatonin and while I'm tired, my voice is better.
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Solitair posted:Any objections to me keeping a running tally of furniture? I'm trying to get as much of it as I can in my run, and some of these descriptions are pretty good, but I don't want to pressure GP into playing the game the same way I do. Hell I'd love it for my own record. I'll be showing off as much as I can and probably doing a chaos stream for the 100 level dungeon. Ugh. Edit: More games should have furniture. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 22:51 on May 14, 2019 |
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BioEnchanted posted:It's really not that hard to talk about good games if you take the effort to unpack what makes them good. A bad game, sure you can spend all of the video whining about the bad mechanics over and over like most Sonic 06 lps tend to but that's hardly interesting analysis, because it's like "Yeah, we get it, we can see that..." See, that's an interesting LP design choice. Things like stats and design I think are better suited to the thread because we can take them apart (but that's just my style and opinion). I'm definitely going to make an effort to be more responsive to things as they unfold instead of going on wild tangents. I go out and watch other LPers for ideas on how to handle it. Right now I'm taking a look at how Kuvo's doing things with fire emblem. I want to reach a happy medium between design choice, snarky commentary, jokes, game explanation and penises. Speaking of which, let's talk about the Giant's Garden. What I should have conveyed is that the Giant's Garden is a maze. The holes go all over the place. But if you zoom out far enough, it's a pretty simple map.  Which is pretty drat funny because it's going in the holes that makes things confusing. There's a completely fine route along the outside. Which is hilarious, because that's exactly what the goons wanted to happen. Second, the spider web I went to get makes things Sticky. Sticky things have their agility lowered and take their turn later, which is great because Buck is a slowboy. quote:
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BioEnchanted posted:BTW I'm sorry if I sounded pompous earlier. I tried to edit it in such a way that it softened the post, but I may have come across too harsh. Nope, you sounded fine. Don't worry about it for a second. ModeWondershot posted:I'll happily contribute my attempt at literary analysis on a good game in live commentary for a change. I normally keep invited guests off the signup list but I added you there to reassure you I didn't forget
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Episode 4 is up! Special Guest: theVoiceofDog, who did the original Lisa the Painful LP. Now he runs a really popular Twitch stream at https://www.twitch.tv/thevoiceofdog where people love him and pay him money because he's fun and his voice is the kind of resonance that reminds you of old leather, tobacco and playful spankings. There's one thing you need to know about this episode before it starts: This episode rules. Cutscene Commentary On No Commentary Some quick discussion: 1) This is where I fell in love with this game. 2) Yes, I will go shake Big Norm. I made more of an effort to keep commentary towards the game and I brought back Scabs. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 16, 2019 |
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Solitair posted:Boy, we've been fighting a lot of things lately, haven't we? Maybe I should take note of them, too. Holy poo poo this rules so hard. Thank you Solitair! I'll link these in the first post when I get home.
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Puff will attack you or else do nothing. The ultimate pushover.
Wendy will hit everyone in your party with a weak physical attack.
Nimbus will hit a single target with lightning and startle them.
Cumulus will laugh, then counter the next turn.
Eddy will flex, then attack twice the next turn.
Buddy Bee can startle a party member with a sting, or cheer to Motivate the enemy party, giving them all +50% stats.
Cloud Babies will split apart on the first turn, turning into two of any cloud enemies, including Bad Weather (see below). You can steal Cloud Thread from them to make them split even sooner.
Bad Weather is a bit stronger than the other cloud enemies. It can make a storm to startle your whole party, but it's only found from Cloud Babies or that dark cave with the spider webs.
Mack will waste turns looking self-conscious as long as he's in the same party as Mortimer. You can steal $2 from him.
You can steal $10 from Mortimer.
Skitter will preen over his handsomeness and attack three times the next turn. You can steal his Apple to heal the party for 25% HP and make him Angry, and also the Stuffed Skitter furniture.
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I don't have a dev diary for you this week. Instead I've just got a video of more stuff that gets shook. That "Thwack" just gets me. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 23:38 on May 18, 2019 |
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I went ahead and rerecorded it so we fight big Norm. Same banner. The level of detail and content in this game is staggering.
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I put out a challenge to previous commentators, wherein if anyone scaled the Arby's Meat Mountain, they'd jump to the front of the list to comment again. Io has summited the mountain. I have proof. If anyone else wants to skip the line, the challenge is now "Eat at Golden Corral." G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 18:37 on May 19, 2019 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:A friend of mine used to work at a Golden Corral, and he stole me a bunch of steak knives, which I still have. Does that count for anything? It would if he got you their chocolate fountain
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Chocolate Bunny posted:With how whimsical the game has been so far (even the nastier elements like the gang of thugs are pretty tame, they just walk around in leather jackets and shake people) the guy actually impaled on the spikes caught me off guard as well. Aesthetically, it looks like a creepy drawing done by an eight year old. It's definitely an undercurrent of some of Jimmy's feelings but I don't think we're given the background to interpret it yet. There's definitely been a theme of violence towards the information guys.
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:It wouldn't be an indie RPG without a bizarre turn into uncomfortable, out-of-place horror, right? I'm going to use this as a jumping-off point for next episode. 1)  Oof. 2) The next episode is where things get freaky. It's tough to keep up jokes with how unsettling the next portion is so next episode isn't particularly funny except for Io's puns which are terrible. It's unnerving. Get ready. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 20, 2019 |
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Episode 5 is up! Special Guest: Iospace, who conquered the original test of character the Gods have placed before us. The Meat Mountain. I pay for my insolence with an assault of horrible puns. This episode is a strange one because it's really, really hard to be funny when it's this unnerving. Trigger warning: body horror. Lots of it. Oh God. Cutscene Commentary On No Commentary I made more of an effort to keep commentary towards the game and Scabs was asleep. It's pretty obvious I was creeped out during this episode.
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I think Kasey reaches Shodan levels with this line. There's something so visceral about "I hate every mole and mark creeping up your back" that makes it incredibly personal and pointed.
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