What's this? A second post for today? Odd, Adam is usually rather lazy. Well, I went home for lunch and had leftover sausage Jambalaya that I made yesterday. I also played a bit of WoW. Since I didn't have much time, I just checked on my auctions and headed to Arathi Highlands to do some mining. Well, someone else was mining the route that I normally take, so I was only getting a little bit of iron. I decided to head into the Witherbark cave in order to find maybe some Mithril.
As I entered the cave, there were 2 Orc's in there, a lvl 34 Shaman, and a lvl 43 Warrior (pictures taken after our encounter). They were working on a Troll and seemed to be on their way out, so I figured it was cool for me to just scoot past them and into the cave. Since they were surely on the way out, I was in no danger of being ganked. I mean, if I'm leaving a cave, I'm not gonna waste my time ganking an easy target. FYI, Shaman are healers, so this is a great little gank squad vs. me (lvl 44).
Anyway, I start working on a Witherbark Shadow Hunter, and change my view to look behind me. I see the two Horde finish off their Troll, and loot him, but they aren't leaving just yet. Of course they are discussing whether or not to gank me. After about 10 seconds, they both head my way, and now I know for sure that they are not gonna play nice. As soon as the Warrior takes a swing at me I face him and decide to ignore my Troll. Well, after about 3 seconds the Shadow Hunter I was fighting casts "Shadowed Silence" on me, and I can't cast spells for 5 seconds. Now I have to decide wether to try to take this Warrior with the possibility that I might not have spells, or ignore him for 10 seconds and remove this Troll.
I turned to face the Troll, and finished him as fast as possible (without using any cooldown spells). Then I turned on the Warrior, with only about 50% health. Thank heavens I have high end plate armor. My first heal was at about 25%, with the Warrior at about 60% or so. Not really sure about his exact health lvl because he was being healed by his Shaman the entire time. But he should fire that dude, because he was only healing about 20% of the Warriors health each time. I burnt my Divine Protection on that first heal, there was no way around it. The second heal was a greater health potion, but that just delayed the inevitable Lay On Hands that took me from about 15% to 100% in an instant.
My Warrior friend was at about 40% health at this time, and I'm sure he thought he had me wrapped up before that Lay On Hands. Now with a 60% health lead, I devoured that Warrior in just a few more seconds. My Seal Of Command was hitting him on almost every attack, and I was getting rather fortunate with my crits on both Command, and my regular attacks.
Once the Warrior was down, the Shaman was shaking in his leather armor. It took only about 2 seconds for him to realize that he should be running. He split, and cast a totem or Earth Bind to slow me down. This gave him enough of a lead that I wasn't gonna catch him, and on my one chance to use Hammer Of Justice, I blew it and used it while still stuck in his Earth Bind totem. He broke my stun before I could get out of his totem's range, and he seemed sure to escape. But as soon as we got out of the cave, he started weaving left and right, taking a zig-zag pattern rather than a straight line. Since the exit from that area is almost a true straight line, I just stayed on that track until I caught him. Then I taught him exactly why you NEVER MESS WITH A PALADIN THAT IS AT A HIGHER LVL THAN YOU ARE!
I knew that I had won by using Lay On Hands, and that a second encounter might be disastrous for me, so I left the area. I saw them a few minutes later with another horde (lvl 38 something) in about the same area, and just watched them from a distance. Once they killed what they were working on, they left, directly away from me. HAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!! Tremble and Fear before the might of Airhawk Alliance!
But all gloating aside, here is what they did wrong:
1. The Shaman should have been healing the Warrior the entire time.
2. The Warrior definitely needs better armor and weapons. If it was 1v1, I would have worked him without healing.
3. The Shaman should have ran in a straight line, dropping Earth Bind totems along the way to slow me.
I still don't think that I've lost what I consider a fair match, and I've beaten several horde that were many lvl's above me. 5 lvl's is my personal best so far. From what I hear, I need to try a half decent Mage now. In theory I would never get even close to a properly played mage. With Blessing Of Freedom and Hammer Of Justice I think I could give them a good run for their money.
2005-02-28
Swearing is great
I like to think that I am an expert in the field. I can swear like a pro, and use some advanced techniques that others may not know.
But one thing that I hadn't considered was my proficiency at swearing in other peoples tongues!
My shame knows no bounds, but I am adimant that I will repair this oversight! My study of foreign cursing begins today!
Anyone else that wants to follow along can get help here:
Swearsaurus
But one thing that I hadn't considered was my proficiency at swearing in other peoples tongues!
My shame knows no bounds, but I am adimant that I will repair this oversight! My study of foreign cursing begins today!
Anyone else that wants to follow along can get help here:
Swearsaurus
2005-02-24
Loot and Gold
I'm afraid to post what I did in WoW last night, for fear that the sweet area that I "discovered" will become flooded by dorks that want easy money and decent loot. Without even really trying, I was making over 1 gold per hour, and getting some loot that I was able to sell for another easy 5g (per hour or two).
So only Thermo knows the area that I speak of. It's not great for XP at lvl 42, but the kills are easy, and you can harvest between 1-2.5s per kill. And one last hint: it's a place that most players have been to by lvl 40, but most probably just passed through while running quests, and didn't take note of how sweet it is.
January's ThinkGeek Techie Haiku Winner is:
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Foul smelling dungeon,
Cleaving goblins with my axe.
Lag spike! Now I'm dead...
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A great shirt: Rogues.
ThinkGeek rocks my world!
In the meantime, go visit Zombo.com.
So only Thermo knows the area that I speak of. It's not great for XP at lvl 42, but the kills are easy, and you can harvest between 1-2.5s per kill. And one last hint: it's a place that most players have been to by lvl 40, but most probably just passed through while running quests, and didn't take note of how sweet it is.
January's ThinkGeek Techie Haiku Winner is:
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Foul smelling dungeon,
Cleaving goblins with my axe.
Lag spike! Now I'm dead...
---
A great shirt: Rogues.
ThinkGeek rocks my world!
In the meantime, go visit Zombo.com.
2005-02-23
Not yet at lvl 20
Last night as I was finishing a mission in Ashenvale forest, a lvl 29 undead priest ganked me (lvl 18). Not too big of a deal, but kinda of frustrating because she was camping just outside of the Alliance territory border, killing the lowbies as they exit and become PvP enabled. And at that place she is almost guaranteed to not encounter anyone higher than about lvl 25. Most people would skip right over that area and take the flight path to Astranaar.
So we can be sure that she is there just to kill people without the hassle of encountering anyone even close to a threat. I felt like going and getting 'Kills, and teaching her a lesson in manners. But someone else dealt with her before I could do that.
Other than that, I only made it to lvl 18 last night. I was shooting for lvl 20, but I got really sleepy, and had a few other distractions. Oh well, I may be able to make 20 tonight. Or I might just play 'Kills.
So we can be sure that she is there just to kill people without the hassle of encountering anyone even close to a threat. I felt like going and getting 'Kills, and teaching her a lesson in manners. But someone else dealt with her before I could do that.
Other than that, I only made it to lvl 18 last night. I was shooting for lvl 20, but I got really sleepy, and had a few other distractions. Oh well, I may be able to make 20 tonight. Or I might just play 'Kills.
2005-02-22
What a long day!
Sunday night was a little bit unusual, even for me. At about 8 pm I started WoW, and decided that "Bashade" is an odd name, so I deleted him (lvl 5) and started a new Night Elf Rogue named "BigGuySneaks". My Paladin is named "BigGuyKills", see the similarity? You should if you are at this Blog. I like this because it makes it easy for the guild to remember that I am an alt of BigGuyKills.
But that's not what was unusual about the night. What is odd is that I played WoW until about 1 am this morning, non-stop. I didn't stop for anything more than getting more Mt. Dew and then dealing with the results of that much Mt. Dew. By 1 am this morning I had made lvl 17 in less than 22 hours.
I know that I'm not setting any records here, but 36 hours (about 22 hours playtime) is still a long time to go without sleep. If you get to a quest or event that isn't making you focus, sleep will overtake you, and you will fall asleep at the computer waking up hours later to the "You have been disconnected from the server" message.
The server went down for about a half hour last night, so I played Null for a bit on Bloodscalp. I was shocked at how poorly I was managing him. The last time I played Null was before I had Cosmos. I wasn't making any money, I had 2 unused skill points (he was lvl 12), but he was at least rested well past the next lvl. I lvl'd up and the rest marker was about 98%. I dropped mining and took up alchemy and herbalism. But he only gets a workout when Frostwolf is down.
Back to names. After speaking with Thermo, I decided that I will do a mage in the future, and name him "BigGuySpells", or something close to that. Thermo added a female mage and named her "Thermione" after the "Hermione" character in the Harry Potter books. I thought that was rather creative.
And you know what, I really like the album "The Real Thing" by Faith No More. I just popped that in for sentimental reasons, and I was amazed at how good it is. But I'm afraid to get another of their albums, because I would surely be let down.
But that's not what was unusual about the night. What is odd is that I played WoW until about 1 am this morning, non-stop. I didn't stop for anything more than getting more Mt. Dew and then dealing with the results of that much Mt. Dew. By 1 am this morning I had made lvl 17 in less than 22 hours.
I know that I'm not setting any records here, but 36 hours (about 22 hours playtime) is still a long time to go without sleep. If you get to a quest or event that isn't making you focus, sleep will overtake you, and you will fall asleep at the computer waking up hours later to the "You have been disconnected from the server" message.
The server went down for about a half hour last night, so I played Null for a bit on Bloodscalp. I was shocked at how poorly I was managing him. The last time I played Null was before I had Cosmos. I wasn't making any money, I had 2 unused skill points (he was lvl 12), but he was at least rested well past the next lvl. I lvl'd up and the rest marker was about 98%. I dropped mining and took up alchemy and herbalism. But he only gets a workout when Frostwolf is down.
Back to names. After speaking with Thermo, I decided that I will do a mage in the future, and name him "BigGuySpells", or something close to that. Thermo added a female mage and named her "Thermione" after the "Hermione" character in the Harry Potter books. I thought that was rather creative.
And you know what, I really like the album "The Real Thing" by Faith No More. I just popped that in for sentimental reasons, and I was amazed at how good it is. But I'm afraid to get another of their albums, because I would surely be let down.
2005-02-17
Guess what! More WoW!
I got very little done last night, but had a great time. I started my quest for lvl 40 first aid: Triage at Theramore Isle. That is a rather difficult test that they put you through. You have to heal a number of patients (about 16) and do that with less than 6 of them dying. The problem is that they spawn in this room at random times and with random severity levels: critically injured, badly injured, and injured. The critically and badly injured patients are easy to deal with, because you can prioritize them rapidly. It's the regular injured that get ya. They are more common, and it's easy to lose track of which ones have been there the longest. So while you are running around healing the worse off patients, you forget that the guy on bed 1 has been there longer than any of the others, and he is going to be the first to die.
I also spent a good deal of time getting a few more flight paths on Kalimdor. I took the ship from Booty Bay to Ratchet, and later made the mistake of hanging out in front of Orgrimmar too long. I really wanted to have that as a discovered location on my map, but a lvl 57 Troll thought that I should NOT have that location discovered, and he proceeded to teach me all about how 17 lvl's of difference can make a fight pretty much unwinnable for the lesser lvl person.
I also learned that you cannot swim from the Ashenvale coast to anywhere in the Stonetalon Mountains. It's a cliff wall almost the entire way, and it forces you to turn back or swim on to Desolace. I swam on to Desolace thinking that there HAS to be some place along the way where I can get over those hills. There isn't. I wasted about 30 minutes doing that.
But I did get flight paths in Talrendis Point, Astranaar, Nijel's Point, and Stonetalon Peak. I already had Auberdine and Theramore Isle. Tonight I plan on getting flight paths in Talonbranch Glade, Nighthaven, Thalanaar, Feathermoon Stronghold, and Rut Theran Village.
I also spent a good deal of time getting a few more flight paths on Kalimdor. I took the ship from Booty Bay to Ratchet, and later made the mistake of hanging out in front of Orgrimmar too long. I really wanted to have that as a discovered location on my map, but a lvl 57 Troll thought that I should NOT have that location discovered, and he proceeded to teach me all about how 17 lvl's of difference can make a fight pretty much unwinnable for the lesser lvl person.
I also learned that you cannot swim from the Ashenvale coast to anywhere in the Stonetalon Mountains. It's a cliff wall almost the entire way, and it forces you to turn back or swim on to Desolace. I swam on to Desolace thinking that there HAS to be some place along the way where I can get over those hills. There isn't. I wasted about 30 minutes doing that.
But I did get flight paths in Talrendis Point, Astranaar, Nijel's Point, and Stonetalon Peak. I already had Auberdine and Theramore Isle. Tonight I plan on getting flight paths in Talonbranch Glade, Nighthaven, Thalanaar, Feathermoon Stronghold, and Rut Theran Village.
2005-02-16
WoW this last weekend
Well, I made lvl 40 over the weekend. In fact, I made lvl 40 at about 06:00 MST on Monday morning, a mere 4 hours before I was supposed to be at work.
I have a nice pic on my website that shows the glorious moment.
No I just have that long grind to lvl 60.
I have a nice pic on my website that shows the glorious moment.
No I just have that long grind to lvl 60.
2005-02-10
WoW is consuming this blog
I've been using Verigan's Fist since about lvl 22 or 23. This is the prize that you get from doing the lvl 20 Paladin quest. Here I am at lvl 35 now, and I am still using it. It's makes me think that I'm missing something in the "Auction House" (AH). I've only found one thing (a 2 handed axe) that comes even close to matching this mace (and that I can use at my lvl). Thottbot has a bunch of things that I would consider an upgrade, but I can't find them.
Last night Thermo and I made our way to Gnomeragon and started those quests. We grouped up with 3 others, and entered the instance. What we learned is that you cannot go into an instance of lvl 30 elite enemies and take on the entire dungeon at once. I'm still not sure what happened, but my guess is that while I was moving along slowly and taking on small groups at a time, one or two of our group must have seen some loot that they could not resist, and in going after it, they must have set off one of those alarm-bot's. All of a sudden a swarm of about 10 or more lvl 30 elite creatures entered the gear room hot on the trail of at least 2 of our group.
My first instinct is to stand up to them, so I targeted one and swung away. That peeled only one from the pack, and while that one dealt with me, the rest of my group was slaughtered by the remaining enemies. By the time the swarm finished off my comrades, I had my target at about 10% health, and had about 35% health myself. Well, that didn't last long. When I saw that long line of bad guys coming at me, I panicked. For a second I stood my ground, like that was gonna work. I tried to heal right away, but that didn't work as I was stunned by one of them. So I tried to cast "Divine Protection" on myself but didn't have enough time to do even that.
So I released and started the long walk back to Gnomeragon. Once in the instance, we all healed up and stared back in. At the top of the gear room we realized that we could drop into the room and save a lot of time, so we did that. I survived the fall with about 15% health, like everyone else. So we all healed up again. Before I could get ready, here comes a member of the group, who I hadn't even seen leave us, with that same f&*^%ing trail of 10 or more bad guys! I knew better than to stand up to them, so I ran right away. But we hadn't cleared out the lower level, and there was nowhere safe to run to. I burnt my "Divine Protection" and "Lay on Hands" spells in an attempt to stay alive, but that didn't work.
I tried to find out why we were chased again, but nobody from the group would fess up. After resurrecting, the group split up. Thermo and I stayed together and tried to get some help from the guild before giving up. Nobody wanted to start that quest so late in the evening, so we headed back to Ironforge (IF) to check the AH. Once there, Mavrick and Kronos offered to help us, so we grouped up and went back in.
Man those guys can pound! Kronos and Mavrick show me what I hope to be in a few weeks. What had taken our first group over an hour, took our new group only about 15 minutes. Kronos got sleepy after a while, and called it a night. The rest of us were rather close to passing out from lack of sleep, so we finished one last part of the quest and ported out to IF.
I plan on finishing my last 2 quests in Gnomeragon tonight. Hope I get a group that isn't common-sense challenged.
Last night Thermo and I made our way to Gnomeragon and started those quests. We grouped up with 3 others, and entered the instance. What we learned is that you cannot go into an instance of lvl 30 elite enemies and take on the entire dungeon at once. I'm still not sure what happened, but my guess is that while I was moving along slowly and taking on small groups at a time, one or two of our group must have seen some loot that they could not resist, and in going after it, they must have set off one of those alarm-bot's. All of a sudden a swarm of about 10 or more lvl 30 elite creatures entered the gear room hot on the trail of at least 2 of our group.
My first instinct is to stand up to them, so I targeted one and swung away. That peeled only one from the pack, and while that one dealt with me, the rest of my group was slaughtered by the remaining enemies. By the time the swarm finished off my comrades, I had my target at about 10% health, and had about 35% health myself. Well, that didn't last long. When I saw that long line of bad guys coming at me, I panicked. For a second I stood my ground, like that was gonna work. I tried to heal right away, but that didn't work as I was stunned by one of them. So I tried to cast "Divine Protection" on myself but didn't have enough time to do even that.
So I released and started the long walk back to Gnomeragon. Once in the instance, we all healed up and stared back in. At the top of the gear room we realized that we could drop into the room and save a lot of time, so we did that. I survived the fall with about 15% health, like everyone else. So we all healed up again. Before I could get ready, here comes a member of the group, who I hadn't even seen leave us, with that same f&*^%ing trail of 10 or more bad guys! I knew better than to stand up to them, so I ran right away. But we hadn't cleared out the lower level, and there was nowhere safe to run to. I burnt my "Divine Protection" and "Lay on Hands" spells in an attempt to stay alive, but that didn't work.
I tried to find out why we were chased again, but nobody from the group would fess up. After resurrecting, the group split up. Thermo and I stayed together and tried to get some help from the guild before giving up. Nobody wanted to start that quest so late in the evening, so we headed back to Ironforge (IF) to check the AH. Once there, Mavrick and Kronos offered to help us, so we grouped up and went back in.
Man those guys can pound! Kronos and Mavrick show me what I hope to be in a few weeks. What had taken our first group over an hour, took our new group only about 15 minutes. Kronos got sleepy after a while, and called it a night. The rest of us were rather close to passing out from lack of sleep, so we finished one last part of the quest and ported out to IF.
I plan on finishing my last 2 quests in Gnomeragon tonight. Hope I get a group that isn't common-sense challenged.
2005-02-09
WoW yet again
Last night was fun. I made mining lvl 125 and can now mine iron. I know, big whoop. Anydangway, I spent some time in Stranglethorn Vale (STV) working on the Tiger, Panther, and Raptor missions. I also made my way to Booty Bay at the end of the night and got that flight path.
But as you may know, STV is gank-tastic, and the entire night we were coming across horde. STV is meant for lvl 30-45 people, so I don't have a problem with lvl 50's coming in and ganking us. It's not like they are roaming Westfall or Redridge and picking on the lvl 10-25's (less than half their lvl). So I understand it when a lvl 60 comes to Nesingwarys Expedition and tries to ruin our day.
What I don't understand is why a solo lvl 38 undead priest would enter this area. We had a few horde enter the area with no chance of ganking nearly anyone. I tell ya though, when some lvl 38 idiot comes in and tries to kill 4 lvl 33-34's, I take a great deal of pleasure in teaching him how wrong he is. Few things are more pathetic than failed gank attempts.
We also had a horde come in and taunt everyone into attacking him. He was killed at least 5-10 times before he gave up for the night and we saw him no more. But I will give him one credit, he figured out how to talk to us when we didn't know a common language. Instead of just waving or whatever, he would yell out "|\| 0 0 |3 $" If you can't read that, it says "NOOBS". If he had typed it out, the language barrier would have only shown that he was yelling "Grom" or something like that. So now I know that any character outside of the English alphabet will pass through unaltered.
But as you may know, STV is gank-tastic, and the entire night we were coming across horde. STV is meant for lvl 30-45 people, so I don't have a problem with lvl 50's coming in and ganking us. It's not like they are roaming Westfall or Redridge and picking on the lvl 10-25's (less than half their lvl). So I understand it when a lvl 60 comes to Nesingwarys Expedition and tries to ruin our day.
What I don't understand is why a solo lvl 38 undead priest would enter this area. We had a few horde enter the area with no chance of ganking nearly anyone. I tell ya though, when some lvl 38 idiot comes in and tries to kill 4 lvl 33-34's, I take a great deal of pleasure in teaching him how wrong he is. Few things are more pathetic than failed gank attempts.
We also had a horde come in and taunt everyone into attacking him. He was killed at least 5-10 times before he gave up for the night and we saw him no more. But I will give him one credit, he figured out how to talk to us when we didn't know a common language. Instead of just waving or whatever, he would yell out "|\| 0 0 |3 $" If you can't read that, it says "NOOBS". If he had typed it out, the language barrier would have only shown that he was yelling "Grom" or something like that. So now I know that any character outside of the English alphabet will pass through unaltered.
2005-02-08
WoW again
Last night a lvl 37 undead Shaman was hanging out too close to Refugee Point, and I decided to make his life difficult. Thermo was on his way to meet me at about that time, so I asked him if I should take the time to kill this guy, since it would affect our plans if I did so.
He said that he wanted to help out, so I waited for Thermo, and we attacked this guy together. Thermo was lvl 27 (Warrior) at that time and I was lvl 33. The shaman didn't last long. But while we were standing there, we were attacked by a lvl 31 Raptor, and that took a lot of our attention. Meanwhile our undead foe had healed up and decided to return the favor.
With my health and mana low, I wasn't able to hold up to him for long. After he killed me, he went after Thermo and killed him.
We were only a few meters away from a graveyard, so I ran to my corpse and resurrected right away. As I turned on my Devotion aura and healed myself once before we clashed. With my mana at only 40% or so, he was able to take me easily. I tried again, and he killed me again. So the third time, I res'd a bit further away, and got fully prepared before we mixed it up. This time I had full health and almost full mana, thanks to "Blessing of Wisdom", so after a few heals, he had to run. Hammer of Justice kept him from getting anywhere, and I finished him off while he was stunned. By that time I didn't want to deal with him anymore, but Thermo had to go AFK for a minute, and guess what? We both got ganked by him.
Thermo came back, and we both res'd while he was distracted by a raptor. Seems a bit ironic that the tables had turned in quite that way, so we pounded him into the dirt and then killed the raptor. Now we took off for real and went about the rest of our night.
What was even more interesting than that was later on as we were doing the Dark Iron Dwarves missions in a group of 5 lvl 29-33 people, a single lvl 40 Undead Shaman attacked our group. It was hilarious! But even worse was that this idiot RETURNED and tried it again! He wasn't even close to a match for us. I still have no idea why he thought he could take us on.
He said that he wanted to help out, so I waited for Thermo, and we attacked this guy together. Thermo was lvl 27 (Warrior) at that time and I was lvl 33. The shaman didn't last long. But while we were standing there, we were attacked by a lvl 31 Raptor, and that took a lot of our attention. Meanwhile our undead foe had healed up and decided to return the favor.
With my health and mana low, I wasn't able to hold up to him for long. After he killed me, he went after Thermo and killed him.
We were only a few meters away from a graveyard, so I ran to my corpse and resurrected right away. As I turned on my Devotion aura and healed myself once before we clashed. With my mana at only 40% or so, he was able to take me easily. I tried again, and he killed me again. So the third time, I res'd a bit further away, and got fully prepared before we mixed it up. This time I had full health and almost full mana, thanks to "Blessing of Wisdom", so after a few heals, he had to run. Hammer of Justice kept him from getting anywhere, and I finished him off while he was stunned. By that time I didn't want to deal with him anymore, but Thermo had to go AFK for a minute, and guess what? We both got ganked by him.
Thermo came back, and we both res'd while he was distracted by a raptor. Seems a bit ironic that the tables had turned in quite that way, so we pounded him into the dirt and then killed the raptor. Now we took off for real and went about the rest of our night.
What was even more interesting than that was later on as we were doing the Dark Iron Dwarves missions in a group of 5 lvl 29-33 people, a single lvl 40 Undead Shaman attacked our group. It was hilarious! But even worse was that this idiot RETURNED and tried it again! He wasn't even close to a match for us. I still have no idea why he thought he could take us on.
2005-02-07
WoW update
I kicked a lot of ass in WoW this last weekend. I got my first real solo PvP kill. You can read about it here: http://adamrules.thejacobcompound.com/games/wow/wow.html
And last night I had a guild member enchant my Maul to do +3 damage and give it a healthy blue glow. I haven't tried it since that enchanting, but I plan on doing so tonight just after work.
And last night I had a guild member enchant my Maul to do +3 damage and give it a healthy blue glow. I haven't tried it since that enchanting, but I plan on doing so tonight just after work.
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