I am aware Bores posted a new IG videos the other day, however it's really more of an advertisement than an actual video so I feel it's not worth covering. Just Bores gushing about an Arcade replica of Dragon's Lair. It felt like Chris Neo again. Dull and not worth it.
He also did a short video for some no-name author about his book on NES games. In it he says "Super Mario Bros changed my life". *shudders* Moviebob flashbacks.
But yeah, I will be doing a year end list for the first time since 2016.
Sorry for the zero-effort post. Also, quit arguing with each other.
The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (NES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
ReplyDeleteI saw the video. I honestly think the older AVGN Simpsons game review was better.
DeleteI'm really glad he covered the game, and the animation beginning was pretty cool. It was kind of weird that the game wasn't covered in the original episode
DeleteI wonder what Irate gamer 2021 will be like
ReplyDeleteRoger Daltrey: “Meet The New Boss! Same As The Old Boss.” That’s how it’ll go!
DeleteThese are gonna be my predictions of what will be on the list (not what I want on the list)
ReplyDelete-Salty Posts in the facebook group
-The lackluster crossover
-Chris making George Floyd's death about himself and claiming he heard I can't breathe the day he was murdered.
-The Paranormal Pandemic video
Just for the hell of it here’s mine of the top of my head:
Delete10 underwhelming avgn crossover
9 dragons lair arcade mini pimping as ig episode
8 tmnt/robocop vids (recycling)
7 ig arcade to console ports vid (errors)
6 fb post exaggerating ig fan vs ig “haters” “war”
5 fb post about getting booted from ghost group
4 ridiculous response to batdan’s comment on one of his ghost vids
3 ghost/paranormal stuff coming back so hard
2 fb post implying he might get killed if he reveals behind the scenes info about yt gaming with ref to debunked t hanks is a pedo conspiracy
1 hearing i can’t breath
Actually I’d replace ten with the abundance of dick/jizz jokes in new ig vids. And for the hell of here’s my top ten best ig moments:
Delete10-5 ummm...uhh.. well...
4 Simpsons treehouse
3 avgn in puppet Steve
2 ghostbusters
1 dick Tracy
Ok so I could only come up with 4, and not saying those are super great, more like least bad, at least he put some effort into those 4
The best for me is the Nintendo Cereal System one... and that's it really. The rest or the videos were bad or forgetful.
DeleteThis might be off topic, but has anyone been keeping up with DSP?
ReplyDeleteLast I checked, he had a complete MELTDOWN over his delayed PS5.
DeleteAlso DSP had a Tantrum over Bugsnax
DeleteYeah! He's REALLY trying to make Cyperpunk 2077 look like the worst game of the year and it's clear Yakuza 7 is something he clearly wants to stop!
Delete-_-
Who knows EDP445?
ReplyDeleteI mean it's alright, like...overrated as fuck in my opinion, I mean...and you know what though? That's typically how the bullshit goes, you feel me?
DeleteYeah EDP445 is overrated
DeleteNever heard of EDP445 before...
DeleteWhat are the odds Chris could do a dual review with Arin Hanson as he has a cameo.com account and he is also notorious for bad mouthing beloved games. Arin is the new DSP.
ReplyDeleteArin sucks! I STILL haven't forgiven him for badmouthing fans of Majora's Mask (myself included) and ruining Sonic's reputation!
Delete>.<#
@Ixey5 How I lost all respect for Game Grumps was in 2016 when Arin was shitting all over Ocarina of Time as well as Rage Quitting a Spongebob game he got LOTS of requests for.
DeleteI dont follow him there a vid guys doesnt like him one reason is him saying good sonic games dont exist
DeleteI think I found DSP 3.0, guess, I’ll give you a hint: people hate him so much and he insults people. He’s from 2016
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I am not Bores. PM wishes I was bores. He loves the attention. Using typing styles, whatever the fuck that even means is a retarded way to try to figure out who a person is.
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays you miserable fucks
I have a cousin who lives in Connecticut and one time at a gas station in 2010 he saw DSP at a gas station.
ReplyDeleteI, on the OTHER hand, MAY be Bores. Hahaha? Like WTF!? Guess you’ll never know, maybe I’ll email James, I’m sure he’ll get a kick out of this!
ReplyDeleteMy guess as to what will be #1? One of the Ghost Doctor videos-- either the "WOKE Paranormal" one or the really tasteless one he did on George Floyd. (Hell, I imagine the "epic crossover" with the Nerd will be on there, but more near the bottom than the top.)
ReplyDeleteI don’t know which is worse, Chris’ George Floyd comments or the fanboys that were defending those comments. It’s the same thing I feel when people defend Chris’ JewWario comments even though there is NO way Chris could have known about the things he did.
DeleteIrate gamer Fanboys are worse
DeleteIrate gamer fanboys have the mindset of being like, Irate gamer and AVGN are friends, or stop talking about Irate gamer in 2020 it’s irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd point out that the AVGN "crossover" is the only video to go over 100k views ALL YEAR. That's beyond sad.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the last time Chris got over 100k views was...shit, the Duck Hunt video. Kind of says it all really.
ReplyDeleteWho remembers watching CyberChase when you were younger
ReplyDeleteNot really! I know CyberSIX, though!
Delete-_-
I do-- mainly because of Christopher Lloyd playing the main villain, "the Hacker". Along with the live-action "CyberChase for Real" segments at the end of each episode.
DeleteMinecraft Puppet Steve reviews South Park toys. Does Chris even know what South Park even is? Also I think Minecraft Puppet Steve has fake subs, like I think Chris Bores could be using subbots on his Minecraft Puppet Steve Channel. Puppet Steve is sus
ReplyDeleteUgh, sub bots are the absolute worst, completely ruin the ethos behind YouTube. Anyone using them is scum.
DeleteChris once got caught using review bots to inflate the score of his book on Amazon so I wouldn’t be surprised if Chris has done so with Puppet Steve. Sub botting does NOT work as well as it did 5-10 years ago.
DeleteWhether they work or not,the use of them are a huge contributing factor to the YouTube landscape of today. Inflated algorithms towards people's videos with terrible content as opposed to those producing the best content rising to the top naturally through hard work and engaging videos. Any one caught using them ever should be banned from the platform IMO
DeleteIf Puppet Steve was reviewing South Park toys earlier, the video's gone now.
DeleteSomeone exposed Chris of being Minecraft Puppet Steve
DeleteThere are 3 south park puppet Steve vids from “3 years ago” still up
DeleteChris knows what South Park is. He knows it's not for kids. He doesn't give a shit. Whatever makes him $$$$$.
DeleteHe also once reviewed Rick and Morty toys.
And reacted to the trailer for Sausage Party, too...
DeleteSomeone needs to make a video about the irate gamer called, This is how you don’t play irate gamer edition
ReplyDeleteI don’t ever see that happening. It works with DSP and Arin Hanson as those are complete unedited playthroughs of games where they play the game horribly and rage the entire time. I love TheRunawayGuys but they have some LPs where Chuggaaconroy went into the game blind that deserves a TIHYDP (notably Star Fox 64 and A Link To The Past).
DeleteOh :(
DeleteI found a video called AVGN should retire and I put a comment that said, You know who should retire, the guy who made this fucking video.
ReplyDelete@PrinceMario some of your live streams on Twitch are gone. What happened?
ReplyDeleteTwitch broadcasts go away after a certain number of days unless you are a partner.
DeleteBtw when’s ur next stream. I’m just wondering
DeleteI saw a DSP South Park theme song parody on YouTube. https://youtu.be/3qZ7ZfkMNmw
ReplyDeleteWhile I was planning to binge watch DoubleEdgedSword's ICBINDLA riffs I managed to find that someone else has archived the I Can't Believe It's Not AVGN videos. I'm gonna have a fucking marathon right now.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS8Lg_IQnQTVZWuh63aPAnQ/videos
I don’t know what I can’t believe it’s not AVGN vids are?
DeleteThey were text commentaries made on Bores by DLAboaqu and he took them down a couple years back and I recommend checking the re uploads out as they make Bores' videos entertaining to watch.
DeleteI decided to privatize my ICBIND videos. I just felt that they haven't aged well.
Delete@DoubleEdgedSword2 That sucks because I really enjoyed those riffs because I could see how Bores fails at games like Mega Man and Kid Icarus without giving him views (and I refuse to give him views with his newer content).
DeleteBTW, I'm glad the user managed to save the Blip-exclusive riffs. Especially the ones on iJustine/Mike Matei and (shudders) Karbia Yuan. (Nine years later, and I still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about him...)
Delete@DoubleEdgedSword2 Why do not think the videos have aged well? I hope it's not because "it has old Nostalgia Critic clips in them." There are people that still love older Nostalgia Critic videos. Anyone that bitches about someone liking classic Nostalgia Critic is a just a whiny idiot in my opinion.
DeleteNothing against you, I'm just pissed at those idiots that WOULD complain about those clips.
I got tired of Blaze the Movie Fan's constant hate-filled rants. I blocked him from commenting, but he can still comment and I get an email notification with the comment even though it doesn't show on the YouTube page. I'll give him the fact that the videos don't hold up well five years later but I need to pick my battles.
Delete@DoubleEdgedSword2 What I do is that I turn off notifications for comments on my channel and everyone I have blocked, there is no way I see their comments.
DeleteI used to watch GameDude before AVGN. I watched GameDude in 2016
ReplyDeleteSo the fucking Cinemassacre subreddit bans me for making a post that criticizes them for thinking modern AVGN is as bad as IG! What the actual holy goddamn fuck!?
ReplyDeleteYea that thing sucks, check out the cinemassacre truth reddit if u haven’t already
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DeleteUnfortunately, the rant was made on that particular subreddit. I called them out for saying modern AVGN is bad and I am in no way defending modern AVGN, I mean there are some bad episodes, but not all of them are bad or on the same level as IG.
DeleteThe people that run Cinemassacre now are VERY picky over what is said in the comments. I was banned a couple years ago when I asked about Kyle Justin.
DeleteBusiness is strictly business, Prince. It's very unlikely Cinemassacre would disclose serious business affairs to the common audience.
DeleteBut as for why Justin left, imo, I'm guessing it could be a lot of reasons (eg like Bootsy, payment rows). One reason I heard though, it's because he wanted to dedicate more of his time to his family, which is fair enough.
You could try asking Justin himself about this, if..
1. You can get past his agent.
2. He's not bound by any legal contract to withhold revealing Cinemassacre's business affairs to his fans. (I'm inclined to believe that he is, but I'm not certain)
3. He even feels like talking about it. And even if he did, you'd most likely be getting just one side of the story.
Do you know much about entertainment business, Prince, just asking?
As long as Cinemassacre doesn't suffer the same fate Channel Awesome did.
DeleteWHAT??? KYLE JUSTIN IS NO LONGER WORKING WITH JAMES ROLFE???
Delete@PM, I take it you don't know much then (referring to my question), but that's fine. Not everyone does.
DeleteChannel Awesome's doing fine really. I'm still watching Doug's Disneycember.
Cinemassarcetruth had a thread on Kyle. Supposedly one of the posters worked with him, Kyle's now a contractor. He supposedly built the new nerd room as well.
DeleteBut he's no longer affiliated with AVGN and hasn't been for years.
Probably why we hear variations of the theme song and not the original.
"New nerd room"? You mean the current one used for the last 12 years? I could believe that. He also helped with the Video Store room and the set for the "Jekyll and Hyde" trailer. As for him leaving, his original song is still used in some episodes (the Christmas variant was just used in the latest episode) so is it really monetary issues that caused his departure?
DeleteWhy did Kyle Justin leave Cinemassacre?
DeleteI bet those fuckers at Screenwave forced him out.
ReplyDeleteI hate screenwave because they ruined AVGN
DeleteThe problem I have with Screenwave is that as they became more associated with Cinemassacre, longtime contributors they expect you to forget about. Kyle Justin? Who the fuck is he? Bootsy? Never heard of him? Even Mike Matei doesn’t have as much contributions as he used to.
DeleteMike Matei got exposed
DeleteMike Mateo got exposed for exposing himself
DeleteMike Matei's Elmo in Grouchland review felt like a video that Chris Bores would make.
DeleteYeah! And Mike Matei hasn’t appeared in a video in a month or two and there hasn’t been a James and Mike Mondays in several months. It’s too early to say if Mike had a potential fallout with Cinemassacre.
DeleteJames and Mike Mondays is coming up again in February of 2021
DeletePrince, are you aware that they're taking a hiatus on James and Mike Mondays?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUGhEtptZE
I was aware of that but said that it could be a possibility. The pandemic and the fact that they have done it every week for the past six years could also be a possibility.
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ReplyDelete@PrinceMario when’s ur next Live stream?
ReplyDeleteI don’t know!
DeleteWhat if Minecraft Puppet Steve gets cancelled by Karen's
ReplyDeleteJames just announced in an update video that James and Mike Mondays will no longer continue and that Mike will be leaving the channel.
ReplyDeleteSad
DeleteIt sounds much like James and Mike just want to go their separate ways and pursue their own personal goals. I won't immediately assume there's been a fallout, but I feel it's more of a mutual agreement. Just my opinion though.
Deletewow
ReplyDeletei wonder if thats' why they're no longer on amazon prime. i usually watch them as background
I said in an earlier comment that there is a possibility Mike and James could have had a falling out and this recent video makes it a likely case.
DeleteI don't think Mike leaving necessarily means he had a falling out with James. Maybe he didn't want to work with the Screensaver guys anymore. Maybe with Covid it was too difficult doing videos with multiple people. Maybe his income from streaming has grown and it would be more profitable for him to do that than continue with Cinemassacre.
DeleteI am not going to pretend to know the details here but I do know I have been involved with group projects before and have seen people move on. I have moved on myself a couple of times. I'm all cases these separations were amicable.
I hope AVGN reviews South Park for the N64 in 2021
ReplyDeleteOr any South Park game pre-Stick of Truth...
DeleteYeah it's not depressing in the slightest that Pokémon or the N64 consoles are now old at all:-). I was a teen then, so yeah.
ReplyDeleteFor the readers of this blog, which period do you think is AVGN’s peak vs the downfall where he wasn’t as good. Fir me 2006-2010 was the peak, 2011-2014 there were still good episodes but they weren’t as good (an exception being Ikari Warriors), 2015-2017 was a downhill slide with occasional good episode and 2018-present is where we are now with Screenwave.
ReplyDeleteAVGN golden era 2006-2014
DeleteI would say the AVGN peaked right after he bought his house and created the Nerd Room in his basement.
Delete2007 to 2015 was the peak for me.
Delete@PrinceMario are you reuploading your irate gamer rise and fall video or the nostalgia critic video?
ReplyDeleteI might have said this in a previous comment but does anyone else think that LJN gets unfair shit sometimes because first off, they just publish every game and second some LJN games aren’t as bad as others say. Jaws is boring, Nightmare On Elm Street and Roger Rabbit are actually fun if the game’s RNG works in your favor, and The Punisher and Maximum Carnage are actually good.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that James Rolfe and everyone else who acts like LJN the worst thing to ever happen to the video-games industry completely forget that (even before it became a front company for Acclaim) LJN was a publisher, not a developer.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the one thing which James should remember from his review of Beetlejuice on NES is the majority of horrible LJN games that he has slagged off were developed by legit companies which included the likes of Atlus, Beam Software/Melbourne House (who also made the WCW SuperBrawl game on the SNES), Sculptured Software (the people responsible for the 16-bit WWF trilogy), and even freaking Rare.
Sure, for the most part they deserve their bad reputation as garbage merchants, but it's a tad bit unfair that LJN gets solely blamed for this, and that no-one has ever criticized any of those developers for willingly churning out such poorly-made licensed shit for a quick buck.
Remember that AVGN is a character and it's all "part of the humor." I'm sure James Rolfe has known that LJN is a publisher for a very long time.
DeleteAnd yeah, like you said, LJN should've at least known better to NOT publish all those shitty games that gave them a negative reputation. Imagine if Chris Bores wrote a ghost book series and a publisher kept putting his books on the shelves despite their shit quality. I think it'd be pretty clear that they're a terrible publisher.
DeleteThat got me wondering-- what are some other 3rd-party developers from the NES era that are known more for shitty games than good ones? Besides Acclaim and LJN, I'd say THQ and Bandai are up there.
DeleteAlso Ocean @Andrew Schroy
Delete@PrinceMario - Just realized that. Also, FCI put out a fair bit of garbage games, including Hydlide. (You could definitely argue either Bandai or FCI could be the Japanese LJN and Ocean.)
DeleteI’ve said some of this before but here goes:
DeleteOf course tastes are entirely subjective, but I just looked up list of nes games on wp and sorted it by publisher to jog my memory, here’s what I think of the pubs mentioned plus some others I think are bad (nes-wise):
Ljn: 26 games, 4 are great 10 below average/bad with 7 that will (shameless self promotion of one’s shitty YouTube channel warning:) make it into my top 100 worst nes games video, 12 avg/good
Thq: 13 games, 2 are bad but I’ve grown to like them (both waldos) 2 are above average 9 are below average/bad with 5 of them making my 100 worst list
Acclaim: 29 games, 5 great, 17 average/good and 8 below average/bad ,7 bad (all 7 in my worst 100)
Ocean: 8 games, 3 average, 5 below avg/bad with 3 making my 100 worst
Fci: 17 games, 3 great, 13 avg/good, 1 bad enough for my top 100
Bandai: 22 games, 6 great, 15good/avg, 1 bad enough for my list
I’ll save the other publishers (American soft works, hi tek expressions, Sony imagesoft, hot b, koei, mindscape, virgin interactive, maybe some unlicensed publishers if I’m feeling wacky) for later I need to go eat or sleep or something , oh yea I like jaws and hydlide
Yeah, the more I think about it, Jaws, while very flawed, was one of LJN's better NES games. I'd play that over Sharks on the Action 52 cart any day.
DeleteAVGN mentioned a company that makes Third Party Nintendo products called STD
ReplyDeleteIf Chris made the spiritual successor to the Chris and Scottie Road Trip series then how would the jokes play out for these following locations?
ReplyDelete-China
-Ethiopia
-Australia
-India
-Democratic Republic of The Congo
-Italy
-Brazil
For China, Bores would probably make some tasteless COVID joke
DeleteThey already went to Italy
Delete@double: and the green screen background would be Japan
Delete@DoubleEdgedSword2 - Or a really racist mockery of Chinese people much like what Jason Spencer did on Who is America a couple of years ago.
DeleteIt reminds me of when Bores did a Pubba Steve video with PS wearing a conical hat and a stereotypical font.
Delete@DoubleEdgedSword2 It was only in the thumbnail but still, it was completely wrong. That is proof Chris is a Trump supporter for those saying there is no proof.
DeleteGoing into 2021, I have said this before and I’ll say it again, Chris should try to evolve with the times and try to reach out to more modern gaming content creators such as Scott The Woz, Nathaniel Bandy, Tyler from Generation Gap Gaming, or he could even try Arin Hanson as he is very similar to Bores in terms of hating on beloved games. Sure most of them would likely say no but Chris can get a lot of new fans if he reaches out to just one of them and does a collaboration like he did with James Rolfe.
ReplyDeleteOr with Puppet Steve, Arlo...
DeleteI dunno, how many fans did he really get from collaborating with avgn?
DeleteAs bad as Arin Hanson is, I don't see him doing a collab with Chris. I remember him and JonTron trash talking Chris a lot back in the early Game Grumps days (back when Game Grumps was actually somewhat entertaining).
DeleteRemember when DSP got banned from Blip.tv for making a joke. If DSP didn’t make that joke he would’ve been part of Channel Awesome.
ReplyDeleteOut of 121 comments, 27 are PMs. That's 22.5 %.
ReplyDeleteIt’s an improvement over previous posts now that the arguments have died down. I don’t give those trolls my time anymore.
DeleteMississippi Queen singer and guitarist Leslie West just passed away at the age of 75. Since him and his band Mountain were insanely underrated we can burn 2020 to the fucking ground.
ReplyDeleteI remember Mississippi Queen
DeleteI believe Chris should try live streaming on Twitch to have a secondary source of income while still being able to do Irate Gamer videos. Even if Chris got a few thousand followers through Twitch it’d be enough for him to have a secondary source of income. Sure he’s bad at games, but that hasn’t stopped Arin Hanson and DSP from live streaming.
ReplyDeleteCbris' fans have not demonstrated that they are willing to throw wads of cash at him if sales of his merchandise are anything to go by. For some bizarre reason DSP is able to raise thousands of dollars every time he makes up a crisis but I am not sure that Chris has that same kind of connection with his audience.
DeleteOn top of that, Chris is terrible at making spontaneous commentary. Such a stream would certainly be entertaining but for all the wrong reasons.
True but if Chris managed to become a Twitch Partner he wouldn’t need subscriptions as he could make money from ads (more so on Twitch than YouTube). However, Geektime shows that Chris isn’t very good at commentating for an hour or two.
DeleteDoes anyone know what’s happening to DSP in 2021?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea, except he'll probably make more cringe-worthy videos as usual.
DeleteProbably
DeleteIf Chris Bores had made the AVGN movie with the same quality then would it be shitty even for Chris Bores or would it be his best effort. I ask because I have not seen the AVGN movie besides the ET part and I’m not interested in watching it in full.
ReplyDeleteWtf who cares
Deletenoooo, not the Irate gamer movie
DeleteI haven't seen the AVGN movie, but I'm sure it's a million times better than Rise of Red (which Chris called his movie time and time again).
DeleteThe AVGN Movie is not what you'd call a conventionally good movie. It's a B-movie that throws a lot at the screen, probably too much, and doesn't worry a lot about rules or logic. I enjoyed it based on a history of watching AVGN, knowing the in-jokes, liking James and being happy that he got a full-blown movie made. He'll make better movies, but this is a fun one to turn your brain off and marinate in.
DeleteEnough talent went into the film that, had Bores made it, the general reaction would be "where was all this talent over the last decade?"
I have a copy of the AVGN movie. As mentioned above, it is not a good film in the traditional sense but I find it passable as an homage to the schlock movies that James clearly loves. I will even give James credit that it is remarkable considering the budget behind it.
ReplyDeleteChris on the other hand - he has no experience managing a project of this size. He would be in over his head, attempt too much work on his own, micro manage what he delegates to others and may end up violating copyright law by inserting other media into his movie.
It would simply be a terrible movie and I say that as a person who has a soft spot for low budget films.
Thinking deeper, you know what? James' movie might be unusually good considering it's independent, crowdfunded and a directorial debut, though I don't study these things. A Bores 90-minute production of any kind would likely struggle to be considered an actual movie. Movies hinge on stories; Bores makes bunches of stuff happening.
DeleteAlso who would Chris get in his movie if he made one? Eric Allen and Brad Harp seem like they want nothing to do with Chris anymore and I have no clue what Scottie's situation is.
DeleteSo I have insight on Bores friendship with Eric and brad but no nothing about what’s up with Scottie? What makes you seem to think that about brad and Eric? Because they don’t appear in his videos? If that’s the case then the same observation would apply to Scottie. If it’s not or more than that what makes you seem to think that?
DeleteThere's also his friend who appeared in his Geektime podcasts (don't remember his name).
DeleteIf Chris made a movie, it would probably have a budget less than Birdemic. Even though Chris has a small fanbase, most people don't care about him or even know who he is. Any attempt at crowdfunding would bomb for him. And he doesn't get nearly enough views to save up for even a decent low budget movie (on Puppet Steve AND Irate Gamer). Needless to say, his E begging spoof would REALLY come around to bite him in the ass.
Delete@SilentSpring - His Geektime friend's name is Tim Walker.
DeleteThis is off topic but what are your thoughts on the DMCA bill that Senator Thom Tillis wants to get through congress? If that bill is passed, it can negatively affect Chris’ videos for sure.
ReplyDeleteIt’s probably going to ruin Twitch
DeleteTake a break from bellyaching about ig and have a look at the top ten things I found on the ground in 2020:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/LnREti3UKt8
Can't belive he didn't make a Home Alone 1&2 NES review with Macaulay Culkin from Cameo.com, yet he honored the 30th anniversary of Dick Tracy, a film nobody remembers nor cares about!
ReplyDeleteYoutuber Apollo Legend just took his own life.
ReplyDeleteU mean he killed himself?
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