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I'll just drop my opinion here. Uproar I'm sure will ensue, apologies in advance. I had an interesting chat in IRC earlier this morning with RaptorFB. Essentially, he pointed out that this torrent was already created, and was appalled at how quickly the game was cracked and released as a free torrent. That part is nothing new - Day0 and Day1 releases are incredibly common with nearly everything nowadays. However, many of those fandoms have such large fanbases that people who want shiny extras will buy the game anyway. Hell, most people just buy the game regardless of the extras because "Hey I (or my kid, depending on the circumstances) wants Call of Duty and Halo and {insert random other shooter that I don't play because they give me a headache}, and so I'ma just go buy it for him." Visual Novels don't have sort of widespread influence on the market. Companies like Mangagamer, etc., spend sizable amounts of money in order to obtain licenses, perform translations, do editing, and making sure that the game is presentable to an English market. They then sell these games, which in turn provide the funding for more titles. What they release is based on how much their previous games made. If you see a string of nukige, it's because sales haven't been so fantastic. When you see major titles like Cartagra or Dengeki Stryker or Shuffle! come out, it means that sales were decent, so they could bring a more popular title over. Fuwanovel's goal has, as far as I'm aware, has always been "Making Visual Novels Popular in the West." Previously, in order to do that, we had to hype and pirate everything in order to create a large enough group of people that could actually be marketed to. Companies picked up on that marketability, took a shot, and now we have a few companies that are making it out there with the help of people who actually want to support the company and not just get their rocks off and move on. If they want to just get their rocks off, well, there's plenty of nukige they can pick from thanks to the massive amounts of pirating that has occurred. But Ryechu, I don't have money blah blah blah... That sounds like a personal problem, and has zero effect on the fact that you should support the companies that are trying to make your favorite medium popular. The motto should remain, but our approach should be different. Fan-translated works and the like should still be hosted, because that's the only way we're going to see many, if not all of those. If the Japanese parent company has an issue with it, they put out a C&D, and move on. However, any mention of illegally obtaining licensed products should be immediately destroyed. Requests for licensed titles, similarly, should be posted on and locked. If they're that desperate, there's this cool thing called Google. I don't advocate its use for that purpose, but I can't force my hands through your monitors to stop you from doing it either, as much as I would like to. TL;DR: Support licensed titles by actually buying them, and destroy anything requesting free versions of these licensed titles on Fuwa. We want to make Visual Novels popular in the West, and the only way to do that is to support the companies attempting to do that. Edit: Oh I would sooooo sign up to mod requests forum just so I could nom on delicious "gimmegimme" souls.

HOLY WALL OF TEXT, I didn't think it would be this long. I'm sorry for being so wordy I also didn't revise this after typing, that would take too long, so if thoughts are incomplete or jump around, so sorry about that too~ Well, it's still Rin's birthday (well, in my time zone at least). I'll start off with yet another HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIN. Here's my Rin post I've talked about making. This isn't a "Why you should love Rin" post, this is a "how I came to loving Rin". So, where to start. I think I've passed the point of saying "I love Rin because of x reason", because it's now simply, I love Rin because she's Rin. There's nothing about her that I don't like. Things weren't always like this though, Rin has only been the uncontested best for me for a mere 9 months, despite being aware of the franchise for nearly 2 years now. Everything started back in winter of 2013. I was new to anime and otaku stuff in general, and when I'm new to something, I like to completely immerse myself in it to learn stuff as fast as possible. I started watching anime in fall of 2012, and winter 2013 was the first season I watched stuff as it aired. I bought my subscription to Crunchyroll and was watching what CR was streaming, one of the anime was Love Live! School Idol Project. Now, before you think this is where the obsession began, you're wrong. It was just another anime I was trying out, and it aired 1 hour after the anime Amnesia. Unfortunately, Amnesia is still on the lower end of things I've watched, and since it came out right before Love Live, I was always in a bad mood going into Love Live, so my opinion was a little harmed by the time I finished. Opinion wise, I liked it a lot, the first Start:Dash performance definitely moved me back then as it still does now (though, more so cuz of the end of S1). By the end, it placed around the top of my favorite things that aired, but was overshadowed by Little Busters and Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo (Ezeefreak knows ) I had one other friend that watched the anime as well, and we talked about it a couple months after it finished airing (though, I didn't know him while it was airing, he's also here on this forum, username Niko), we told each other our favorite characters. I said Honoka, then Maki, then Nico. He said Nico, Maki, and the orange haired girl (he couldn't remember her name at the time). My response was, there was an orange haired girl? That's right. I didn't even remember her. When he reminded me who she was, I remembered Rin not for herself, but for being Hanayo's friend who helped her join the group, and nothing about Rin herself. (**I shed a tear in shame typing this, I'm not exaggerating/lying). In the first season of the anime, Rin played absolutely no importance, often was on the side of scenes, and didn't get any where near as many lines as other characters. She played her part in episode 3 getting Hanayo to join, had a couple moments where she shined, but not enough. And so, interested, I went back and rewatched the series (I've always been a fan of rewatching stuff). Here, I paid more attention to the characters themselves to remember them better, and especially paid attention to Rin. No, this wasn't a "I finally found her", still more time to come. By the end of this rewatch though, my top order changed, and Nico was knocked out of my top 3 in favor of Rin, who was tied with Honoka as my favorite (genki ftw!). I loved a few things about Rin at the time, like how she was always energetic and joking around, I liked that. What really topped her off to being tied with my favorite of the time, Honoka, was episode 3 where she helped Hanayo. Helping others is such a great trait to me, it was a major driving reason for Rin to be right at the top when I focused on her. Along with her genkiness (which I'm fond of in people, I'll add more about this waay at the end), she was a star in my eyes (Get it? Hoshizora?) Now it was early fall 2013, Rin and Honoka were tied for my favorites, but my time with Love Live didn't disappear. I loved the music, and I had started to play osu! at that time, and had a few Love Live maps downloaded that I played a ton, and I also watched each of the 5 PVs of the time (Music Start wasn't out yet). I didn't really know the non-PV songs at the time, only Bokura no Live (obviously), Snow Halation, Natsuiro, Mogyutto, and Wonderful Rush, along with the anime songs, and the Kokuhaku because it had a map as well as Spicaterrible (Kotori solo). Anyway, because I was still involved with the music, I was still watching clips from the anime at times, and eventually I declared Rin my favorite over Honoka, so it was only really a marginal difference. Then Season 2 was announced, and everything changed. I was hyped, Season 2 was coming. My friend and I had both agreed in the past that Love Live NEEDED a second season. **Spoilers for S1 here** I was starting to get obsessed with Love Live at this point, I listened to the PVs a lot of times each, and was looking forward to another season for months before it was announced. This was also where I started listening to some solo songs occasionally at night before going to bed too, since they came up in the related section of the PVs (back when Youtube didn't murder every single Love Live video uploaded!), and I realized Rin had an AMAZING Singing voice. i don't remember what song it was, but when I first heard her solo (I never paid attention to voices in the anime performances or PVs), I was like... wait... this is RIN!? Season 2 started airing, and the first thing I noticed, this season literally quadrupled Rin's screen time. She had more lines than ever, always on screen, making jokes, just participating in general. And then episode 5 came, the episode "The New Me". Previously, Rin wasn't an obsession, she was just my favorite character in my most anticipated anime of Spring 2014, ranking midway in my favorite characters of all time list. Episode 5 changed that favorite characters list. Suddenly, the red haired Shana wasn't #1, it was an orange haired girl. **S2 E5 spoilers, not bothering with spoiler tag. This is the most crucial part, so deal with being spoiled. Me explaining it won't do it justice anyway.** Rin displayed the ultimate trait that made me fall in love with her. The insecurities and the shyness. I'll relate this below, but the insecurities and watching her eventually overcome them makes me so happy, and puts so much depth to her. She was troubled the entire episode, and right up to the end, denied her cuteness (omg, this opinion is definitely wrong for most people, but Rin's Cuteness levels overall is a 100 on a scale of 1-10 already!) Love Wing Bell makes me cry every time I listen to it, it makes me so happy. Watching someone I care about overcome something troubling them is pure joy for me. Also, her shyness when they were practicing was adorable. I can't really describe how I feel about this episode well enough, it is one of my favorite episode of anime. And the anime kept airing, Rin kept getting screen time thankfully, not just dropping off like some anime tend to do with characters they gave an episode to. She continued being cute, continued to wear her new outfit, embracing the fact she really is cute. She continued just being herself. And lastly, she continued to keep me locked in. Time to wrap this monster post up with relating reasons I love Rin with personal stuff. As Maki~chan has already imagined, I am, to put it simply, similar to a male version of Rin. I'm energetic, all jumpy over my friends (I seriously jump on them in the hallways :3 despite being short), I'm small (Like Rin being skinny and stuff), and slightly like the opposite gender (Rin is more tomboyish, I'm a bit feminine in many ways). I'm also energetic while around friends and shy when attention is specifically on me in certain situations (like when Rin was leading in episode 5). I care deeply about my friends and drop everything to help them. My mind is going blank typing this, so I'll leave similarities alone now~ Another thing, Rin is also similar in some ways to my childhood friend, and first girlfriend (it didn't work out sadly). They both have orange hair (probably where my love of orange hair comes from), both act like cats at times, both have insecurities, both joking and teasing but very nice and dedicated. I'm bad at conclusions, so uhh, thanks for reading all this, this was a FUCK TON of text. Originally, I knew it would be a bit and delayed starting it, which is why this is coming so late, but I didn't realize it would be THIS long, taking over an hour to type, sorry D: I wish there was a way I could make it up to anyone who reads this~ And also, I wish I were Hanayo, so that I could have Rin all to myself <3 And so, once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIN. No matter what you think, you're the cutest in µ's, as Hanayo says, and one of the girliest, like Maki said. You're a great friend to the members of µ's and a wonderful idol.

I finally have time to sit down and read everything. Thank you everyone for the encouraging comments, it makes me happy to be part of this happy aidoru family~ Also, I'm sorry (especially to you Eclipsed) that we got into a gender topic (I had a good laugh btw) XD. I didn't think (and still don't think) that gender is important when we're all here with the same interests, whether it's Love Live! or other anime/manga/VN, etc. Though I'm amused with Nosebleed's answer, we're all girls~ Ok question, What are special recruitment boxes?

Silly people discussing genders, we're clearly all cute females. I mean just look at our avatars, it's kind of a dead giveaway. Yesterday I went to bed without even using up my LP, when I know there's not going to be any events that interest me I just kind of slack off.

Well personally I see it as inconsistent in our policy to refuse hosting licensed content while allowing links to them in the forum. People who want to pirate the game will do so in any case, so it's all a matter of being consistent with ourselves. It's not even really a matter of holding off for a certain time.

They're Kotorines Eri is saying "Horosho" by the way. And Nico and Maki are.. well.. doing lovey dovey things.

confirming that I am the dowolf of the youtube account who's also a translator and who uses the same avatar image and shares a liking for Majikoi and...

Don't worry, the real value of true friendship is measured in the intensity (and number) of said friends assassination attempts.

Ceris, I read that giant wall of text and it's beautiful. I can see your love for Rin just by reading it and also the effort you put into writing it and even relating it to your own life. Since it's Rin's birthday and I was also moved by your piece, it made me want to write a little reflection (more like something I wanted to say for awhile now) as well. Rin, (well none of the girls except the second year students) didn't stand out to me because what's screen time? After season 1 was over, Rin was second last in my ranking. After playing SIF and watching season 2, my ranking began to change, including Rin. It wasn't until recently that she went from 8th place to 5th. I started to like Rin because I began to see herself in me as I sat down and began rearranging my ranking for the third (and hopefully the final) time. There's also the fact that Rida Iiho (Rin's seiyuu) is my third fav out of the girls for the seiyuu's. Months ago my friend asked out of all the girls, who did you relate to the most. I had an answer immediately, it was Rin but back then I couldn't figure out a concrete answer to give him, all I had going was the tomboy personality but I knew the answer was Rin. But a few weeks ago, I sat down and thought about it carefully and now I have one. Just like Rin, I wanted to change. I grew up mostly hanging out with boys and I don't have many girl friends, probably only one. I don't consider myself a tomboy but my mind is similar to a guy's. I'm shy and socially awkward, I barely have any friends. I can't even keep a proper conversation going without thinking in my head "he/she probably thinks I'm weird". After watching episode 5 and listening to Love Wing Bell and watching Rin being able to change, it made me wish I could change as well. Like Rin I want to be cute. I dress like a hobo (sweater + jeans or shorts if it's the summer time) on a regular and I don't wear dresses/skirts unless it's a for wedding (which was like once or twice) or the few times in high school (school uniform). But deep inside I don't want to all the time, I want to wear a skirt or a dress in public, I want to dress how "normal girls" dress but I can't because I'm afraid, especially afraid that people would make fun of me. Everything that Rin went through, I'm afraid that it would happen to me too and it would make me more depressed. I have no confidence and low-self esteem but I wish and one day I hope I'm able to take the step that she did and change into the person I want to be. ...I guess this is why I see Rin in me out of all the girls. I'm really sorry for making it a little too personal.

So already a member is spamming a Cartagra download link from KAT, and that got me thinking that with MangaGamer and Sekai actually bringing over things that are at least good, finally, perhaps it would be cool of Fuwanovel to begin banning posts that direct to a pirated download for a localized/licensed VN on the forums. It would simply be a temporary ban on such talk for X amount of time. A week to two weeks would be an acceptable compromise on this I feel. Besides, people who refuse to pay for these things are going to find it anyway, it would be a nice gesture and a good show of faith that Fuwanovel is changing to be less combative towards commercial localization efforts.

This was planned weeks ago but IRL things(Lazyness)then let's begin This thread is going to be udapted every week with more songs Feel free to comment and upload your own songs and comment One thing i would ask is have respect, we did this for fun no it's not profesional and my editing skill sucks The images are mostly to fill the space because i was so lazy OriginalRen Me Ken(MonMon) BlueEmber Tai HMN Dimdito Hmsful Joris Jptje(jay) Leafon Nagisa Special

Didn't Kosuna send you a backup with the progress? Why not give it to Dowolf so he can finish and check it for errors?. It's more fast, Dowolf don't get bored and the work of Kosuna is not lost if Dowolf finish it first.

Can the guy that accidentally wrote ban clarify his post so we don't get this from people who did not read

I imagine it will be a headache, but I think we should aim to be consistent with the policy of not hosting licensed VNs. That means not promoting piracy of licensed VNs on the forum. At all. Temporary freezes on posting links to torrents of licensed VNs is a weak middle ground, inconsistent with the direction the site seems to be heading. We should crack down on it altogether. If this does happen, we should probably wait until we can make changes to the front of the site. It's kind of weird having an anti-piracy policy when on the about section of the site we have pro-piracy statements This won't be possible until the server move, right? As an aside, do any of the older torrents still include those pro-piracy packets they used to? I think I remember reading they don't anymore.

Dowolf.

oh it's this guy again, thanks for the nice comment personally, I think we should drop them completely, without compromises. The biggest problem (aside from the opposition--which appears to be nonexistent) would be the reduced forum traffic. A hit I think we need to take for this

[21:44:33] *** Blue Ember pokes Hi-chan *** [21:44:39] *** HMN pokes back *** [21:44:47] *** Blue Ember pokes back *** [21:45:10] *** HMN ties up sempai to the bed gtabs her pantsu and put it in her mouth *** [21:45:48] *** Blue Ember rolls away trying to escape *** HETH MU! (Help me) [21:46:53] *** Lefon puts on his black hoody and begins to sneak upto the bed *** [21:46:58] *** Lefon pulls out his knife *** [21:47:09] *** Lefon cuts the ropes *** [21:47:09] *** HMN kicks lef *** [21:47:17] HMN: don't interfer [21:47:25] *** HMN grabs sempai's chin *** [21:47:32] *** Blue Ember takes the panties out of his mouth *** [21:47:35] *** Lefon jumps back up with the knife in a reverse position *** [21:47:35] *** HMN gets closer to senpai *** [21:47:41] Lefon: Come at me bro! [21:47:44] HMN: ok then Stab... [21:47:51] *** HMN gets his AK-47 *** [21:47:52] Blue Ember: Him.... [21:47:53] *** Lefon stabs Hikari in the stomach *** [21:47:55] Blue Ember: Now..... [21:48:05] *** HMN is wearing a vest : 3 *** [21:48:14] Lefon: I am going to do to you what you did to those children [21:48:21] HMN: astalavista baby [21:48:23] Lefon: The one's locked up in the basemnet [21:48:25] *** HMN shoots him *** [21:48:31] *** Lefon jumps undeeath the bed *** [21:48:37] HMN: allah akbar [21:48:46] *** Lefon throws the knife into Hikaris anckle *** [21:48:58] *** Blue Ember lites Hi-chans fuse *** [21:49:03] *** Blue Ember runs *** [21:49:06] Lefon: Why?! Ember! [21:49:11] *** Lefon attempts to get away *** [21:49:13] HMN: bro i have my hands full with an american and a british [21:49:16] Lefon: Fucking traitor! [21:49:18] *** HMN shoot lef in the leg *** [21:49:23] Manuel (AKA Madvanced): just bomb them [21:49:35] Blue Ember: *Hi-chan explodes but Lefon is spared* [21:49:44] *** Blue Ember helps Lefon up *** [21:49:49] HMN: no i haven't sat up bombs [21:49:49] *** Lefon applies pressure to his wounds *** [21:49:59] *** HMN runs and kicks lef in the face *** [21:50:11] *** Lefon grabs another knife *** [21:50:16] HMN: wtf? [21:50:27] *** Lefon cuts Hikaris right leg *** [21:50:48] *** HMN crumbles down *** [21:50:54] *** Lefon whispers "Thats right justa little closer" "Just gonna cut your throat" *** [21:51:05] *** HMN grabs a lamp *** [21:51:17] Lefon: *The lamp is a bomb* [21:51:25] HMN: how did you know? [21:51:35] *** Lefon throws the knife in mto the lamp *** [21:51:38] *** Blue Ember aims a bazooka at Hi-chan and LEfon 30 meters away *** Stop what you're doing [21:51:49] Lefon: Of course [21:51:56] Lefon: Fucking traitor -_- [21:51:59 | Edited 21:52:11] HMN: you've doomed us [21:52:19] *** Lefon grabs Hikari and throws him forwards *** [21:52:24] *** Lefon jumps out of a window *** [21:52:36] *** Lefon pulls the lever of the backpack *** [21:52:43] Blue Ember: *it's a bomb* [21:52:46] Lefon: *parachute comes out* [21:52:47] HMN: i won't let you run [21:52:55] *** HMN drags himself *** [21:53:02] *** HMN stands up near the window *** [21:53:13] *** Lefon is flying downward to safety giving Hikari the finger *** [21:53:23] *** HMN pulls out his RPG *** [21:53:28] Lefon: O_O [21:53:31] Blue Ember: Oh shit [21:53:34] HMN: you're done. [21:53:37] *** HMN shoots. *** [21:53:37] *** Lefon cuts the parachute *** [21:53:49] *** Lefon Hits the ground hard *** [21:53:50] *** Blue Ember watches with popcorn *** [21:53:52] HMN: oh right i forgot [21:53:53] *** Lefon is unconcious *** [21:54:00] HMN: he's british he's freakin' james bond [21:54:09] Blue Ember: LOL [21:54:13] Blue Ember: Hi-chan! [21:54:16] Blue Ember: STop! [21:54:21] Blue Ember: I'm laughing too much. [21:54:25] HMN: no must destroy [21:54:30] *** Lefon wakes up *** [21:54:35] *** Lefon gets away *** [21:54:37] HMN: arab instings [21:54:43] HMN: tsk [21:54:48] Blue Ember: Tellagram for Lefon [21:54:53] *** HMN walks out of the building *** [21:54:55] Blue Ember: Pleas sign here here and here. [21:54:55] *** Lefon answears *** [21:55:01 | Edited 21:55:06] HMN: we will meet again lef bond [21:55:04] Lefon: What is this for? [21:55:17] Blue Ember: A package, from the emperor. [21:55:21] Lefon: O_O [21:55:25] *** Lefon signs the papers *** [21:55:40] *** Blue Ember hands Lefon the letter and a package *** [21:55:54] *** Lefon puts the stuff in the porch *** [21:55:58] *** Lefon go's to make tea *** [21:56:14] *** Lefon returns with tea *** [21:56:19] *** Lefon opens the letter *** [21:56:27] *** HMN starts up his car *** [21:56:29] *** Blue Ember goes back to proof reading *** [21:56:33] *** HMN drives away *** [21:56:33] *** HMN drives away *** [21:56:41] Lefon: What does the letter say Ember? [21:57:07] HMN: i tell you what it says [21:57:25] Blue Ember: It says "Only War is quest is being written by Grim, be ready for next weekend." [21:57:26] *** Kuu-chan pulls out a plasma launcher *** [21:57:30] HMN: astalavista baby yours truly hikari. [21:57:41] *** Lefon nods *** [21:57:44] *** Blue Ember hugs Kurisu *** [21:57:49] Lefon: Exellent [21:57:49] *** HMN presses the red button *** [21:58:02] HMN: *package explodes [21:59:23] HMN: will hikari win? what will happen to lef bond? when will hikari get his H-scene with sempai? find out next time! [22:00:00] Blue Ember: No, He dies in a car accident and no.

Oh it's this thread again.

Can any of you guys who can S Score on an EX song tell me what the highest level N you get from it is? From my testings so far I've only gotten level 11 but I've heard you can get up to level 13. So maybe i need to S score like a harder(more stars) EX song instead? Level 12 is the most I've gotten out of getting S on EX songs.

What's that have to do with anything? Short hair is cute on girls! (Both Rin and Hanayo have short hair too!)

Welcome to fuwa~! You will never leave Right? Please? o.o

I know I'm strange, but I found 90% of Nichijou to be excessively boring. The comedy is so great, but it's infrequent, and because of the greatness, all the non-funny stuff makes the rest even more boring since you're expecting to be laughing. Some moments are some of the funniest things I've seen though.

I had the same question as cloudy for a long time but did not bother asking still have no idea what those boxes that everyone talks about are.

Avatars? *points at praeliators* Best response ever, nosebleed. xD

It's getting cold~

Okay... So i tried guessing Eclipsed gender.... SURPRISE.... I thought female.... Then looked into her his profile.... Gender:male.... :|

Too much of a pain? Click a file, and press ctrl+a to select all of them. Or select the first one, press shift+end. Well, as one of the world's laziest persons, I feel for you.

Funny game guys. It is a joy to read it.

The King Tiag of Varela "The Penguin" has died of old age! His son Tiago of Varela takes the throne. He's about as fickle as his father, much to the dismay of the Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons already know how to put up with the nonsense, however. "Orders, my lord? Well... I've heard the Chinese were pretty pissed off at my father... right? So let's attack them! Wait, on the other hand, the Huns seem to have gone berserk, and that's hardly a good thing. I'm not about to let Britannia fall after so much shed blood. Hmm~~ Write a letter to the Franks, if at all possible, we'd like to request their cooperation in combating the Huns. We can make compromises as requested. Make sure to make it abundantly clear how useless the Chinese are to combat the Hun threat. Very well, your lordship. And the armies? Until we hear word from the Franks, we are to conquer Welsh lands and continue attacking the Chinese Empire, but only on Lusitania. I couldn't care less about what they do with Roman lands. I am confident the Sassanids will strive to fight the Huns, if they, or any other countries, request our cooperation, tell me immediately. I only have a bone to pick with the Chinese, the rest of Europe is fine as is. So you're basically trying to turn the world against the Chinese, which only just arrived? Well, if they gave me their tea stores... I suppose I could cease all attacks on them and head for the Huns instead. Until then, we'll take possession of Lusitania." Unfortunately for the Saxons, the King doesn't seem to be paying any attention to the Huns, even though Danish lands are right next to them. Scared and left to their own devices, the Saxons start making war equipment and mounting up defences like there's no tomorrow.

It took me 70+ attempts to FC Mermaid Festa Vol2 on Hard... I blame my old shit phone for 50 of those attempts, then the rest just me sucking at the game xD

On those projects i'll only speak regarding BG0 since it's the one I was playing. Ushoran was translating the story itself and it looks manual translation (even has some translation notes in the text). The interface like item descriptions and such is clearly machine translated. I've also been away for over one month but last I heard Ushoran was on vacations and was having limited time to translate the game so he stopped after translating the 3rd chapter. He was supposed to keep going tho but I haven't really been following that. Regarding the screenshots, i'll supply some in a minute (i'll edit this post). EDIT: Samples from chapter 3:

and that (good) ending. Just Wow.

Pycome is actually amazing, No Game No Life is also really action-packed.

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