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shatnerihardlyknowher · 3 months

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So I talked to him and I just want yall to know Spock wishes you a prosperous journey through another day. Do with that what you will. He's proud of you btw. (He won't admit it but he "believes you deserve respect". He's just like his father sometimes)

Say hi to spock!

Also I hope you have a good day kiddo! You've got this! It's rough, but you'll make it. Make sure you drink water and eat food and take breaks whenever you need.

From Spock and I(your dad), live long and prosper. 🖖

#star trek #star trek the original series #mr spock #internet dad posting

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rachel-614 · 1 year

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Okay, let me tell you a story:

Once upon a time, there was a prose translation of the Pearl Poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was wonderfully charming and lyrical and perfect for use in a high school, and so a clever English teacher (as one did in the 70s) made a scan of the book for her students, saved it as a pdf, and printed copies off for her students every year. In true teacher tradition, she shared the file with her colleagues, and so for many years the students of the high school all studied Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the same (very badly scanned) version of this wonderful prose translation.

In time, a new teacher became head of the English Department, and while he agreed that the prose translation was very wonderful he felt that the quality of the scan was much less so. Also in true teacher tradition, he then spent hours typing up the scan into a word processor, with a few typos here and there and a few places where he was genuinely just guessing wildly at what the scan actually said. This completed word document was much cleaner and easier for the students to read, and so of course he shared it with his colleagues, including his very new wide-eyed faculty member who was teaching British Literature for the first time (this was me).

As teachers sometimes do, he moved on for greener (ie, better paying) pastures, leaving behind the word document, but not the original pdf scan. This of course meant that as I was attempting to verify whether a weird word was a typo or a genuine artifact of the original translation, I had no other version to compare it to. Being a good card-holding gen zillenial I of course turned to google, making good use of the super secret plagiarism-checking teacher technique “Quotation Marks”, with an astonishing result:

By which I mean literally one result.

For my purposes, this was precisely what I needed: a very clean and crisp scan that allowed me to make corrections to my typed edition: a happily ever after, amen.

But beware, for deep within my soul a terrible Monster was stirring. Bane of procrastinators everywhere, my Curiosity had found a likely looking rabbit hole. See, this wonderfully clear and crisp scan was lacking in two rather important pieces of identifying information: the title of the book from which the scan was taken, and the name of the translator. The only identifying features were the section title “Precursors” (and no, that is not the title of the book, believe me I looked) and this little leaf-like motif by the page numbers:

(Remember the leaf. This will be important later.)

We shall not dwell at length on the hours of internet research that ensued—how the sun slowly dipped behind the horizon, grading abandoned in shadows half-lit by the the blue glow of the computer screen—how google search after search racked up, until an email warning of “unusual activity on your account” flashed into momentary existence before being consigned immediately and with some prejudice to the digital void—how one third of the way through a “comprehensive but not exhaustive” list of Sir Gawain translators despair crept in until I was left in utter darkness, screen black and eyes staring dully at the wall.

Above all, let us not admit to the fact that such an afternoon occurred not once, not twice, but three times.

Suffice to say, many hours had been spent in fruitless pursuit before a new thought crept in: if this book was so mysterious, so obscure as to defeat the modern search engine, perhaps the answer lay not in the technologies of today, but the wisdom of the past. Fingers trembling, I pulled up the last blast email that had been sent to current and former faculty and staff, and began to compose an email to the timeless and indomitable woman who had taught English to me when I was a student, and who had, after nearly fifty years, retired from teaching just before I returned to my alma mater.

After staring at the email for approximately five or so minutes, I winced, pressed send, and let my plea sail out into the void. I cannot adequately describe for you the instinctive reverence I possess towards this teacher; suffice to say that Ms English was and is a woman of remarkable character, as much a legend as an institution as a woman of flesh and blood whose enduring influence inspired countless students. There is not a student taught by Ms. English who does not have a story to tell about her, and her decline in her last years of teaching and eventual retirement in the face of COVID was the end of an era. She still remembers me, and every couple months one of her contemporaries and dear friends who still works as a guidance counsellor stops me in the hall to tell me that Ms. English says hello and that she is thrilled that I am teaching here—thrilled that I am teaching honors students—thrilled that I am now teaching the AP students. “Tell her I said hello back,” I always say, and smile.

Ms. English is a legend, and one does not expect legends to respond to you immediately. Who knows when a woman of her generation would next think to check her email? Who knows if she would remember?

The day after I sent the email I got this response:

My friends, I was shaken. I was stunned. Imagine asking God a question and he turns to you and says, “Hold on one moment, let me check with my predecessor.”

The idea that even Ms. English had inherited this mysterious translation had never even occurred to me as a possibility, not when Ms. English had been a faculty member since the early days of the school. How wonderful, I thought to myself. What a great thing, that this translation is so obscure and mysterious that it defeats even Ms. English.

A few days later, Ms. English emailed me again:

(I had, in fact searched through both the English office and the Annex—a dark, weirdly shaped concrete storage area containing a great deal of dust and many aging copies of various books—a few days prior. I had no luck, sadly.)

At last, though, I had a title and a description! I returned to my internet search, only to find to my dismay that there was no book that exactly matched the title. I found THE BRITISH TRADITION: POETRY, PROSE, AND DRAMA (which was not black and the table of contents I found did not include Sir Gawain) and THE ENGLISH TRADITION, a super early edition of the Prentice Hall textbooks we use today, which did have a black cover but there were absolutely zero images I could find of the table of contents or the interior and so I had no way of determining if it was the correct book short of laying out an unfortunate amount of cold hard cash for a potential dead end.

So I sighed, and relinquished my dreams of solving the mystery. Perhaps someday 30 years from now, I thought, I’ll be wandering through one of those mysterious bookshops filled with out of print books and I’ll pick up a book and there will be the translation, found out last!

So I sighed, and told the whole story to my colleagues for a laugh. I sent screenshots of Ms. English’s emails to my siblings who were also taught by her. I told the story to my Dad over dinner as my Great Adventure of the Week.

…my friends. I come by my rabbit-hole curiosity honestly, but my Dad is of a different generation of computer literacy and knows a few Deep Secrets that I have never learned. He asked me the title that Ms. English gave me, pulled up some mysterious catalogue site, and within ten minutes found a title card. There are apparently two copies available in libraries worldwide, one in Philadelphia and the other in British Columbia. I said, “sure, Dad,” and went upstairs. He texted me a link. Rolling my eyes, I opened it and looked at the description.

Huh, I thought. Four volumes, just like Ms. English said. I wonder…

Armed with a slightly different title and a publisher, I looked up “The English Tradition: Fiction macmillan” and the first entry is an eBay sale that had picture of the interior and LO AND BEHOLD:

THE LEAF. LOOK AT THE LEAF.

My dad found it! He found the book!!

Except for one teensy tiny problem which is that the cover of the book is uh a very bright green and not at all black like Ms. English said. Alas, it was a case of mistaken identity, because The English Tradition: Poetry does have a black cover, although it is the fiction volume which contains Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

And so having found the book at last, I have decided to purchase it for the sum of $8, that ever after the origins of this translation may once more be known.

In this year of 2022 this adventure took place, as this post bears witness, the end, amen.

(Edit: See here for part 2!)

#sir gawain and the green knight #translations #internet research #english literature #teaching things #dads are the best #long post #story telling #I STILL don’t know the name of the translator but I WILL find out #obscure books

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ants-personal · 1 year

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i honestly dont know which is funnier picturing elon opening his own photoshop to create these shitty ass memes crying about his 8 dollar subscription. Or him crying calling some poor editor and telling them which meme he needs cause these people don't wanna pay for a thing they already have for free.

#man is suffering from rich and internet brain-rot the edtior is the picture of coralins dad #elon musk #twitter #ant posts shit

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lilaccatholic · 6 months

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Physically I'm here but mentally I'm clawing the eyes out of everyone who talks crap about their children on the internet and posts them in their most vulnerable moments for clout

#i just saw a video of a like eleven or twelve year old girl approach her mom's car when she got home from work and without even saying hello #to her kid she yelled at her to go inside so she could talk to her husband first and then shouted at the kid when she said her dad put her #through hell that day. is she probably overreacting bc shes a kid and she doesnt have get emotional regulation yet? absolutely. but also?#as the kid who knew that if i didnt get to my mom with my side of things first that my dad would twist things to make himself look like the #victim in a situation i promise you that baby girl isnt feeling heard and that would be sucky but normal on its own. the type of thing #families work through together yknow? but to post that on the internet??? to be recording when you come home knoeing there are problems in #your house and wanting to put online forever a moment in time where there are really strained relationships among members of your family??#especially when it's the relationship btwn your husband and your child??? nope. im sorry. uh uh.#that kid deserves better than that. your husband deserves better than that. everyone deserves better than to have their really vulnerable #moments shared on the internet with strangers #like. i think about how i felt as a kid when i found out my parents had told a relative something i considered private. how embarrassed and #betrayed i felt. the thought that EVERYONE would see that instead of just my dad's relatives or w/e?#bby girl im incandescent with rage #anyway #lilac rambles

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httpslvr · 9 months

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oh my GOD can we please stop fighting abt hankcon n father/son shit cuz its always like the same two arguements

theyre canonly friends, best friends if u rlly wanna push it, so lets js have them be those two guy friends who know WAY too much abt each othet to b normal? maybe? please? ive read so many fics where theyre like that its so funny

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the-aviary-system · 6 months

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Being a fictive is fun (/s /lh) because sometimes you’ll open tumblr and the first thing you’re greeted with is thirsty artwork of your dad and then you take a massive amount of psychic damage.

The movie has only increased the frequency of these posts, unfortunately.

-Michael Afton (he/him)

#FNaF fictive #fictive #plural #endo safe #Michael afton fictive #Michael post #Who needs traditional jumpscares when you can get jumpscared by people simping over your dad on the internet #I keep forgetting how much the fanbase likes him

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undertheredhood · 7 months

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imo, dick grayson is the type of person who would post 'am i the asshole' stories on reddit.

#batman #dick grayson #nightwing #robin 01 #dick grayson was never the angry robin #he was just severely traumatized by witnessing his parents' death #richard grayson #dick grayson has an account for both his civilian and superhero identities #dick grayson has a reddit account #dick grayson furiously typing on his computer: aita for being mad at my dad?#dick grayson is a disaster #at least he's asking for help even though it's from random strangers #his account for nightwing goes instantly viral everytime he posts something about the batfamily #bruce has lectured dick on leaking personal business on the internet multiple times #sometimes just to stir the post dick will post a fake story about batman on his nightwing account #dick grayson is a menace #just because he has eldest daughter syndrome doesn't mean he can't be a little chaotic #though technically he isn't really the eldest because he has an older half-sister

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socksandbuttons · 7 months

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always remember the line Lunar says to eclipse "arent u my mom?'

#i only bring it up cause iTS TRUE BUT ITS NOT BUT IT ISSSSSSSS #eclipse just didnt want the internet getting a hold of it but ALSO didnt wanna think about that too hard #'listen i ma have made you bUT we are BROTHERS i am NO MOM.' 'are u dad'#'NO' 'well thats good i dont need to worry about u leaving to get milk for ten years' '...waht'#ANWYAY this is brought up cause of an older post where i refered to killcode as granpa #BECAUSE... LISTEN THIS FAMIL TREE IS A MESS

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sheepstiel · 3 months

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meanwhile on jack's very popular bunker life vlog channel: hi huys, today i'm going to show you our dungeon. it's right next to the communal showers and the storage room. hi sam! no, i just ate, thanks. okay, sorry for that! there is some really cool stuff in our storage room as well, maybe i can ask my good friend rowena to cook up some potions with us next time. don't worry, we only use organic unicorn milk and i can show you how to store it properly. now, our dungeon has some really cool features, like these shackles here.

#ppl think this is a bit mostly. also they love jack and his dads.#there is merch and everything.#tshirts saying. organic unicorn milk only #or. god's least favorite grandchild #he interviews dean cas and sam sometimes and makes them wear dad shirts for fun #sometimes he streams playing games. dean and sam don't know about his gaming set up and ask themselves all the time why their internet #conncetion is so slow #jack posting

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thatdepressedturtle · 3 months

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Media vs my life: Parents

People always talk about and make it in shows that

the mother is more overprotective and is all worried when their child (main character) is hurt at all, acting all "my poor baby!"

and the dad dosen't seem to care, saying "rub some dirt in it" but in my real life its the opposite

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me: *cuts my hand on accident* ouch!

mom: you good? yeah, your fine. get a bandaid. Im a doctor, ive seen much worse things.

vs:

me: *acidentally cuts my hand* ouch!

dad: you okay??? do you need ice?? rinse it in water so it dosent get infected! I got some bandages and medical tape! DO I NEED TO CALL YOUR MOTHER?

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I just thought we need more worried dad's in the media is all.

#the internet #parents #mommy issues #not an incorrect quote #the turtle talks #the turtle speaks #dad vs mom #media #meme #humor #joke #funny #qsmp #core post

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knightsofrayx · 11 months

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it belonged to someone

#warrior nun #save warrior nun #ava silva #sister beatrice #shannon masters #sister shannon #sister lilith #sister camila #shotgun mary #the halo #remembering the dead #im in the middle of nowhere #with hardly any internet connection #but i borrowed (stole) my dad's portable wifi thing to post this #you're welcome #my art

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shatnerihardlyknowher · 5 months

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You don't have to make anyone happy. Their happiness is never your responsibility, just as their sadness is not your fault. Responsibility for any person is their own. If they refuse to put in the effort to get better, that's not your problem. I know that sounds rude, but putting yourself first should be your number one priority. No longer are we in an age where our lives are entirely dependant on tribal relationships. We can survive on our own, and so can they. Of course, offering support is a wonderful thing to do, but don't end up with a savior complex. I've always had that problem. Been there. Done that. Now I wish I hadn't cared so much about what they thought. It was so much unnecessary stress. Don't do it. Keep going, kiddo. Always am, and always shall be very proud of you.

- your self-proclaimed internet dad

#internet dad posting #jimmy speaks lol #actually mentally ill #mental illness #ed not ed sheeran #bpd #ptsd #tw depressing thoughts #s/h

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c-kiddo · 9 months

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minecraft youutbe roleplay videos are one of the things that im like truly i am too old for this . not even rly physically, spiritually i am too old to understand any of this at all. peace and love

#i just dont get it. it makes me feel like a dad. like enjoy your internet video streams champ 👍#kiddo say #owa i jus started 2 feel odd. better not b a migraine >_>#i may be too warm ?#also .going 2 post another silly cad art later

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xiakeponz · 1 year

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for modern AU fics - what chinese media did diaspora consume?

making this post because some of us in the diaspora server were having a chat about what Chinese media "Diaspora Chinese" watched in the 90's - 2000's (and even sooner than that) while not having access to satellite chinese media or streaming services - this is in the context of writing modern AU fics based off Chinese media/novels (so your main character's grandpa or uncle is not, in fact, watching an episode of Friends or Shortland Street or something as flavour text because sorry what the hell-)

We generally watched a lot of stuff on VCDs, including bootlegged and non-bootlegged movies, shows, anime/donghua. My household had a whole VCD album of this, and a lot of VCDs (even if they were pirated editions) would have a fancy hardcover box with a magnetic clasp and some artwork representing the show on it.

All of this is Mandarin - so not TVB stuff, because I'm from Northern China and I don't know any cantonese - but Canto friends, please feel free to add to the list! This is mostly stuff my parents liked to watch, or I liked to watch with them, with the exception of a few which I mainly watched with friends/cousins when I was maybe (in most cases) eleven/twelve years old onwards. This is a pretty personal list, meant to give people general idea of a possible "ballpark" of sorts, and by no means exhaustive.

Now, for the list of shows which I can confirm I had or someone I know had on VCD or some kind of offline media format lol (I'll try add release year stamps and links to the EN wikipedia where possible):

Period dramas (mostly Qing Dynasty stuff):

Huan Zhu Gege 还珠格格 (1998, April-) This is a classic, so many memes come from this show; hugely popular series, basically cemented Zhang Tie Lin's face as the face of the Qing Emperor for about a decade. Tie Chi Tong Ya Ji Xiao Lan 铁齿铜牙纪晓岚 (2002-2010) - I loved this show as a kid and watched all four seasons on repeat with family... The "trio" in this show are well known and loved.

Amazing Detective Di Ren Jie / 神探狄仁杰 (2004) A very popular and addictive show. Ok now the Big Four:

Romance of 3 kingdoms 1994 / 三国演义 (1994) - a classic that has had many remakes, my older cousin would play this on repeat...

Hong Lou Meng/红楼梦（1987） - another classic with many remakes, but I think the most recognised by the public one is the 1987 one.

Journey to the West / 西游记 live action (1986) - I think the 1986 version of the live action is the most recognised one. *Shui Hu Zhuan / 水浒传 (1998) - I am not too familliar with the live action of this one in my household tbh bc my mum doesn't like it lol (she keeps saying it's too depressing) but I'm sure it's up there with the rest of the big four, if anyone has an opinion on this one please let me know!

Modern setting shows:

My dad loved all the Sun Honglei (孙红雷 - actor name) stuff, iirc it was a lot of MinGuo period espionage stuff, your shanghai 1920's sxc aesthetic. This actor has been around since 1999? Qian Fu （潜伏）was very famous, and Ren Jian Zheng Dao Shi Cang Sang （人间正道是沧桑）。 These were around '08 and '09.

Chuang Guan Dong - 闯关东 (2008) (Baidu link, sorry - couldn't get an EN wikipedia one). This show was huge when it was airing, everyone was watching it. I was pretty young but even I watched it and got invested ... and I thought it was such an "old person" show at the time lmao. Xiao Bing Zhang Ga / 小兵张嘎（2004） (sorry, again Baidu link) - yo, anti-japanese war movies set between 1937-1945 were crazy popular - this is one of them and was very popular):

Donghua/Anime (all the stuff kid me watched and some which I didn't but were popular):

喜羊羊与灰太狼 (2005-) Calabash Brothers / 葫芦兄弟（1986-1987） Black Cat Detective / Hei Mao Jing Zhang 黑猫警长（1984-2010） Lan Mao Tao Qi 3000 Wen 蓝蓝猫淘气3000问 AKA 蓝猫 (blue cat) (October 1999 - Present) Legend of Ne Zha 哪吒传奇 (2003) Journey to the West/Xi You Ji 西游记 This was truly the Donghua I grew up on from when I was a bb, the OP song and ED song are classic bangers all kids know. Slam Dunk/ 灌篮高手 - People truly watched a lot of anime that may or may not have been terribly dubbed into mando (possibly canto too). Late 80s and 90s kids were all over this, and Dragon Ball, Crayon Shinchan (labixiaoxin).

Taiwanese Dramas:

This is mid-late 2000's, I would be remiss to not talk about the Taiwanese dramas of this era. Mike He, Rainie Yang, Wu Zun (amongst many, many others) were huge. Stuff like Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao, it started with a kiss, Hua Yang Shao Nv (Taiwanese version of Hana Kimi) were all pretty popular. Not sure if these shows all hold up in 2023, but boy were they popular at the time.

Note about CNY:

For CNY, people would try to tune into 春节联欢晚会 (the CCTV official CNY show) at that One Friend Who Had China Satellite TV's house. Zhao Ben Shan / 赵本山 was a comedy staple, and the show would often feature people from the music industry to perform. Eventually these people became more and more relevant to my gen and Jay Chou etc started appearing.

Last but not least Xian Jiaaaan 仙剑:

In 2005 I was all over 仙剑奇侠传 (Chinese Paladin), based off the video game. This show was crazy popular and probably sent me and a whole lot of other kids into Xianxia / Wuxia hell (and Hu Ge hell, and later I came back to love Liu Yifei). Thank you. The OST is a true banger.

#cnovel #mdzs #cdrama #chinese diaspora #danmei #not a lot of jinyong wuxia shows here so people who have opinions please chime in!#whew that was more than i thought #music could do with another post #but i dont know too much about my dads music i was just a 2000s cpop nerd #also this doesnt cover movies either #please no lan qiren watching friends #this breaks me out of my immersion immediately unless there was a specific reason why shufu is watching friends #not even sure how to tag this #late 2000s you could pretty much stream and download stuff i think i did that for bbjx when it came out #even tho my parents hated The Internet i managed #feel free to add more to this in a post or tags or whatever

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gummiiismiles · 4 months

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One of my favorite past times is teaching my dad internet slang. Today, we’ve got:

• yassified, and subsequently “yas”

• slay queen

• bussin’

• spill the tea

• no cap

if you got any more, PLEASEE add them, me and dad wanna scar my brother with his use of internet slang HAJAHDJ

alternatively, my dad also shared some old gen-x slang, like:

• “ew, gag me with a spoon,” and

• you go girl

i will keep you updated as I remember more

#internet slang #lol memes #memes #funny post #funny shit #funny #dad jokes #i love my dad sm #gen x humor #scarring my brother with incorrectly used internet slang terms #as i cackle with glee #the mastermind behind it all

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butchhansolo · 9 months

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god i fucking hate so much how we have to tag shit like hugging or holding each other close or sleeping on each other as Not Clonecest it feels so icky that we're in such a state of fandom and general Perception of these acts as inherently romantic that we have to say it explicitly Isn't

#to be clear: i do not like incest #.txt #it feels bad because i think about how i do these things with my own sibling andit's like #it's like that post about the guy who thought his daughter was mad at him because she stopped calling him ''daddy''#n she only called him dad when she was upset #and the reasoj she stopped was because of the internet #like can we be normal about normal things please dear god please

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