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TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
Re: Userbars
I've got to say one thing I've noticed since starting these userbars is there are a lot of factions in EP. There is a lot of things that people can identify with. I'm not saying this is wrong but my todo list is starting to get as high as a mountain. I will continue to plow through though as I see people like my work and I like to see my work being used.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
root root's picture
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TBRMInsanity wrote:
I've got to say one thing I've noticed since starting these userbars is there are a lot of factions in EP. There is a lot of things that people can identify with. I'm not saying this is wrong but my todo list is starting to get as high as a mountain. I will continue to plow through though as I see people like my work and I like to see my work being used.
root@Userbars I noticed no one has up-rated you, or at least not that you post. How does the Jovian Bioconservative feel about @-rep? I was granted one by repmanager via The Doctor, and the autonomists are all about sharing. TBRMInsanity @-rep++;
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TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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root wrote:
root@Userbars I noticed no one has up-rated you, or at least not that you post. How does the Jovian Bioconservative feel about @-rep? I was granted one by repmanager via The Doctor, and the autonomists are all about sharing. TBRMInsanity @-rep++;
Speaking as a Jovian citizen, the only thing that talks is cold hard cash. That being said @-Rep can be converted into Jovian Dollars. So thank you.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I was wondering if I should include the various alien races in my userbar list. Of course I would start off with everyone's favourite slime the Factors.
Spoiler: Highlight to view
I can also include the ETI with the proviso that people would have to include spoiler tags around them.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Possible spoiler info, only GMs should view:
Spoiler: Highlight to view
I think I will create the ETI userbar but I'm going to call it Extraterrestrials and have Intelligence as part of the background.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Plunder Plunder's picture
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What about an Eclipse Phase userbar, so we can use it outside this forum (and inside, too)? Great job, by the way!
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Plunder wrote:
What about an Eclipse Phase userbar, so we can use it outside this forum (and inside, too)? Great job, by the way!
I agree. I've actually been planning this already. I was also going to make a Battletech userbar, Shadowrun userbar, and Pathfinder userbar (the other RPGs that I play). I will post the Eclipse Phase one here, but the rest you will have to find on my website.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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The second draft of the Eclipse Phase userbar is done. This one is at least respectable for use on other forums now. I just need to clean up the animation (which isn't that bad for my first time) a bit and I'm done. Enjoy everyone!
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Plunder Plunder's picture
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Great! Would you mind if I translate it into Spanish?
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Plunder wrote:
Great! Would you mind if I translate it into Spanish?
Be my guest. All my content is licensed under the same license as EP so go at it.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
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root wrote:
If I had to guess, it's because the forum is stored in SQLite? Pictures get stored as BLOBs in most db systems, and they can act differently than text or integer values. It gives systems hicups on occasion.
From what I can tell, the forums appear to be implemented with the standard Drupal forum extension, and the website itself is a Drupal instance. I do not think that Drupal supports the use of SQLite as its core database but there are a few extensions out there (of which the forums are not one) that use it to store configuration information. That looks to me more like an HTML markup glitch. The same thing happened to me when I was setting up my forum signature.
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
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repmanager: @-rep +3 (Comment: For each signature bar I use).
Xahn Borealis Xahn Borealis's picture
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Requesting Lost? Also, +1 e-rep for Nano-Ecologist. I think that's how it works anyway.
root root's picture
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root@Userbars [hr] TRBMInsanity @-rep +3; For my use of your userbars.
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TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Xahn Borealis wrote:
Requesting Lost? Also, +1 e-rep for Nano-Ecologist. I think that's how it works anyway.
I'm working on another project just at the moment but I will make the Lost my next priority (I plan to use the picture of the crazed girl with the butcher knife and the floating hand as the base ;) ).
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
sndwurks sndwurks's picture
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C-Rep +1 for the Eclipse Phase bar. And I think Carl would make an excellent guy for the Clanking Masses. And the reason I think that they should get a userbar is that it's a separate identity from just using a synthmorph. It's a combination of enforced economic difference, and a new form of racism in a transhuman setting that leads to a distinct subcultural identity. The Steel Morphs from Sunward are a good example of this, being formerly Case and Synth morph using egos who have achieved the financial means to be able to afford a Splicer or other biomorphs, but choose to take a synthmorph as a sign of cultural identification. Personally, I think that's an angle I would like to work when / if I get to run an EP game. The rise of a distinct synthmorph pan-identity on the inner worlds as a reaction to the culture of discrimination against them by the more fortunate biomorph users would be an interesting recurring subplot.
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TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Xahn Borealis wrote:
Requesting Lost? Also, +1 e-rep for Nano-Ecologist. I think that's how it works anyway.
Done
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Clanking Masses are done.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
sndwurks sndwurks's picture
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Woot! Thanks! C-Rep +2
Doomsayer
nick012000 nick012000's picture
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So, do we just stick them in our signatures, or should we rehost them so we don't leech your bandwidth? Also, if you do the Skinthetic one, I'd be thankful.

+1 r-Rep , +1 @-rep

bakho bakho's picture
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To answer nick's question:
TBRMInsanity wrote:
Sorry problems with my server. My server isn't the most reliable machine. So that being said if you use my userbars, I ask you to save the picture to another (more stable) location and not reference my site directly (I suggest Flikr). In the future I hope to relieve these issues.
You can also use places like imageshack or photobucket ;)
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nick012000 nick012000's picture
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Okay, thanks. +2 c-rep to TBRMinsanity for the userbars, and +1 @-rep to bakho for the help.

+1 r-Rep , +1 @-rep

TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I've updated the list and divided them into categories for everyone's convenience. Which gets me to another point, if anyone one wants to help create userbars, I'm more then happy to host them on my site for everyone's benifit. Just PM me if you want to help.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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Great stuff. Well, in the interests of helping you find specific images faster... A lot of the morphs could simply pull images from the Sample Characters. The Futura, Remade, Sylph, Flat, Synth, Bouncer and Swarmanoid in particular. I think there's an image of Furies in action on page 191, and a blow-up on pages 20 and (arguably) 182 of a Menton deep in thought. Page 39 has a reasonable Exalt. Another Sylph or Exalt on page 139 and on 285. Pod on page 142. Page 55 shows a decent Egocast or Upload. Ruster on page 133. Novacrab Pod Morph on page 124 and 276. Avian Mercurials on pages 198 and 387. Reaper Morph on page 358. Exsurgent on page 366. Possible Exsurgent or higher being on page 217. Factors on page 373. Pages 16 and 17 hold some decent Fall images, if they're needed. Transhuman/drone fighters during the Fall on page 35, for action. A fleet on pages 112 and 113. Orbital shuttle on page 349. Pandora Gate on page 377. Pages 47, 195, 205 and 238 (even 285) have decent images for scanners or Muses. Asteroid miners on page 22. Freerunners on page 179. Hacker/programmers on page 185 and 250. Psychosurgeon on page 210. Cloaked intruder on page 227. "Clone tanks" on page 120. Ultratech ship on page 235. Page 77 for Anarchists or @rep. Iktomi architecture on page 110, along with some cool spacesuits. Possible exoplanet on pages 350 to 351. Space elevator on pages 170 and 171. Hab images on page 69, 89 (Octavia, on Venus), 94 (Olympus, on Mars), 98 (Amalthea, in the Jovian Republic), 107 (probably Titanian), 128 and 129 (floating cities), 266 and 267 (rotating ring) and 281 (space station). TITAN zones or weapons could use the front-cover image of the tentacle going after the bouncer morph. Killsat/TITAN-containment forces on page 355.

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Xahn Borealis Xahn Borealis's picture
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Thanks again for the Lost bar, +1 e-rep. Also, +1mesh-cookies (Which would you rather have? :D)
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Well ladies and gentlemen, what's next?
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
bakho bakho's picture
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Preservationist?
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Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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Despite my wide-ranging set of images identified above, I'd go as much as possible with anything that posters might identify with: factions, morphs, philosophies and attitudes. In particular, I'd go with anything that suggests a particularly strong personal choice or that has strong emotional resonance. So I'd suggest hyper-evolution, singularity, anarcho-capitalism, hypercapitalism or morphological freedom before some of the less extreme personal motivations and morphs like Fury, Remade, Menton or Futura (or even Reaper, Swarmanoid or Infomorphs (which you already have, as Infolife)) as opposed to "just" Flat or Splice. You seem to have most of the really ideologically strong factions represented, so if you do anything there I'd stick with prominent players (Guangxi) or really interesting concepts (Pax Familiae, the Synergists). Oh, and while I'm not all that interested in grim stuff, you haven't got an Exsurgent userbar yet. (Shrug.)

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TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I will add Exsurgent to the list. I'm amazed I never thought of that.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
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TBRMInsanity wrote:
I will add Exsurgent to the list. I'm amazed I never thought of that.
Would you be including the libpng vulnerability of the week to assist people with locked-down devices in the jailbreaking of their units? ;) (Image file.. basilisk hack.. vulnerability.. exploitation.. nevermind.)
Sepherim Sepherim's picture
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Awesome! Not sure how it works and if I'm doing it right, but receive +1 f-rep from me (the one that suits artists, afterall!). :)))
Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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The Doctor wrote:
TBRMInsanity wrote:
I will add Exsurgent to the list. I'm amazed I never thought of that.
Would you be including the libpng vulnerability of the week to assist people with locked-down devices in the jailbreaking of their units? ;) (Image file.. basilisk hack.. vulnerability.. exploitation.. nevermind.)
Actually, a userbar that effectively said "This is a basilisk hack. Shield your eyes, pathetic mortals..." would be kind of humorous. So would an Exsurgent Virus ("Please send me to your ten closest friends. And then your next ten. And your next... No, this is not a request..."). Or, alternatively, open-source anti-virus/Firewalls -- courtesy of the anonymous Prometheans -- aimed at last generation TITANtech.

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Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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Dry Observer wrote:
Actually, a userbar that effectively said "This is a basilisk hack. Shield your eyes, pathetic mortals..." would be kind of humorous. So would an Exsurgent Virus ("Please send me to your ten closest friends. And then your next ten. And your next... No, this is not a request..."). Or, alternatively, open-source anti-virus/Firewalls -- courtesy of the anonymous Prometheans -- aimed at last generation TITANtech.
Or a userbar that showed a normal morph, or something more on the edge, like Exhumans or even Infolife, being written over as it's replaced, pixel by pixel, by the Exsurgent tag. P) ;)

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root root's picture
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root@Userbars [hr]
Dry Observer wrote:
Or a userbar that showed a normal morph, or something more on the edge, like Exhumans or even Infolife, being written over as it's replaced, pixel by pixel, by the Exsurgent tag.
Oooh. Nice.
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Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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root wrote:
root@Userbars [hr]
Dry Observer wrote:
Or a userbar that showed a normal morph, or something more on the edge, like Exhumans or even Infolife, being written over as it's replaced, pixel by pixel, by the Exsurgent tag.
Oooh. Nice.
You only believe that because you have been infected. (Aside) Gentlebeings, you have authorization to terminate. Three light-second radius, no more.

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root root's picture
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root@Userbars [hr]
Dry Observer wrote:
You only believe that because you have been infected. (Aside) Gentlebeings, you have authorization to terminate. Three light-second radius, no more.
No, no, no! I haven't been infected with the Exsurgent virus! I regret nothing! You'll never defeat me!
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Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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Seriously, though, the TITAN Quarantine Zone on Mars might be a useful userbar, more as a statement of place or condition (or humor) than anything else. The mysterious killsats around Earth, representing some kind of absolute "firewall" against overt TITAN incursions, might also be workable as a tag, as could Arenamontanus' Trait (drawn from Inception) "militarized subconscious." Something for Asyncs could be useful, for that matter.

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Dry Observer Dry Observer's picture
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Oh, and Augmented Reality/VR and/or a time speedup tag could indicate a very powerful state of being, though to some extent that's covered by Infolife.

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Sepherim Sepherim's picture
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Dry Observer wrote:
Seriously, though, the TITAN Quarantine Zone on Mars might be a useful userbar, more as a statement of place or condition (or humor) than anything else.
Actually, developing this, a bar on the general location could be a good idea, and one "quick" to do as there are plenty of images of the Solar System's planets. I'd say one for each planet, one for the Sun nearzone and one for Extropia would be more than enough. :)
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I'm staying away from creating location userbars due to the enormous work (as there are hundreds of locations) (though I will post them if people send me any). I will add Asyncs and The Mesh (AR, XP, ...). My idea for the Infected is to have a pile of dust on the ground, a person walks over the dust, it engulfs them and transforms them into a TITAN monster. A Killsat then nukes the person into a pile of dust (rinse and repeat).
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Sorry everyone but I'm currently in an ongoing battle with my ISP provider and it may be some time before my website is back up and running (AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!). Please be patient. In the mean time if you want to see any of the userbars of have a userbar for yourself, please PM me and I will see about e-mailing you when I'm back at home. Again I'm sorry about the site being down.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Hopefully it is fixed now. If not I'm switching ISPs.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I've finished the flat morph "Only Human" userbar. I need to clean up the people a bit more but I think it looks good.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
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Dry Observer wrote:
Or a userbar that showed a normal morph, or something more on the edge, like Exhumans or even Infolife, being written over as it's replaced, pixel by pixel, by the Exsurgent tag. P) ;)
A nifty idea, to be sure!
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Dry Observer wrote:
Or a userbar that showed a normal morph, or something more on the edge, like Exhumans or even Infolife, being written over as it's replaced, pixel by pixel, by the Exsurgent tag. P) ;)
While the exsurgent userbar won't be an existing or future userbar, I am taking this idea. The userbar will look closest to the Flat userbar (human icon sign) with the caption "Normal" beside it. The userbar will then be engulfed in exsurgent tentacles and the caption will be morphed into "Infected". A flash of light (Killsat) will reveal the "Normal" userbar again.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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The Exsurgent userbar is done. I think I've got a handle on animated userbars, but they are a lot of work. I think I will save them for special userbars only. I'm defiantly going to touch up the EP userbar soon to be more like the Exsurgent userbar.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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I've added Rep Buttons for people to use if they like.
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Xahn Borealis Xahn Borealis's picture
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With all this @-rep you're earning, you're the richest person here. You could probably buy the website as an Expensive favour.
TBRMInsanity TBRMInsanity's picture
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Xahn Borealis wrote:
With all this @-rep you're earning, you're the richest person here. You could probably buy the website as an Expensive favour.
Yeah but I'm a Jovian. @-Rep is as useful to me as a glass of water to a synth. Speaking of Rep, has anyone seen the Rep system they have on the Official Shadowrun Forums (not Dumpshock)?
Jovian Motto: Your mind is original. Preserve it. Your body is a temple. Maintain it. Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Xahn Borealis Xahn Borealis's picture
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TBRMInsanity wrote:
Yeah but I'm a Jovian. @-Rep is as useful to me as a glass of water to a synth.
So you'd have trouble finding stuff on the @-list (No networking: anarchists skill)? If you're against anarchy, shouldn't you be charging for the use of these userbars? :D

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