web01.fireside.fm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:40:34 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Dwaley” https://topiclords.com/tags/dwaley Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. en-us episodic The only place on the internet you can hear topics discussed! Jim Stormdancer Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. yes Jim Stormdancer jim@goombas.org 312. Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers https://topiclords.com/rubber-baby-knopfler-romplers 96139945-4d54-4741-83f3-18c8d1107469 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Danny and Walker. We discuss "You Probably Think This Song is About You," a tour of r/crappymusic archetypes, sample-based film scores in the 80s, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner, and being a video game noob in your 40s 1:21:23 yes Lords: * Danny * https://nightbrunchband.com/ * Walker * https://nightbrunchband.com/ Topics: * You Probably Think This Song is About You * The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0291r0zf.jpg * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk * Sample-based film scores in the 80s * https://www.tumblr.com/mogwaipoet/786937779224461312/terminator-2-1991-and-the-princess-bride-1987 * Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner actually * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotStandatMyGraveand_Weep * Being a Video Game Newb in Your 40s Microtopics: * Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter? * Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords. * Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady? * Night Brunch. * Wearing your own band's t-shirt. * A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen. * Hi Cindy! * Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing. * Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist. * A Touch of Grandiosity. * How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day? * Continuing to discover music from the 1970s. * It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords." * Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens. * All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey. * Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else. * Canadian Actor Dave Coulier. * Tuesday at 3:01pm. * Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar. * Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song. * Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch. * What art is for and what art should be for. * Fun is our only reward. * The objective best pitch wheel range. * The Funky Worm preset. * Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone. * Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000. * thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com * In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend. * Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up. * Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board. * Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments. * The All Topic Fakeouts episode. * The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received. * A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience. * Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip. * Piling onto propaganda music. * Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity. * Graffiti with immaculate copyediting. * With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong. * Only the best crappy music. * Promoting your music in r/crappymusic. * Tori the Clown Rap Gal. * The audacity of extreme autotune. * All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks. * Singing the comments on your last video. * Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world. * Obscure Music That Slaps. * Serbian Kolos. * The Ketron Event Chrom. * The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread. * All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack. * Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker. * Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars. * It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys. * That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses. * Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk. * The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering. * Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers. * All the things you are after you die. * The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.) * Making art about how trauma used to exist. * Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.) * Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR? * Shepherding noobs. * Play Any Video Game Day. * Complicated goose controls. * Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game. * Learning video games vs. learning board games. * Trying to get into video game series that don't change. * Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image. * Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds. * Jumping on and off of buildings. * Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs. * Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn. * Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff. * Spelling brunch the secret way. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
  • Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
  • Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
  • Night Brunch.
  • Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
  • A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
  • Hi Cindy!
  • Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
  • Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
  • A Touch of Grandiosity.
  • How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
  • Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
  • It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
  • Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
  • All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
  • Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
  • Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
  • Tuesday at 3:01pm.
  • Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
  • Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
  • Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
  • What art is for and what art should be for.
  • Fun is our only reward.
  • The objective best pitch wheel range.
  • The Funky Worm preset.
  • Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
  • Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
  • thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
  • In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
  • Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
  • Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
  • Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
  • The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
  • The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
  • A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
  • Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
  • Piling onto propaganda music.
  • Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
  • Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
  • With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
  • Only the best crappy music.
  • Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
  • Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
  • The audacity of extreme autotune.
  • All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
  • Singing the comments on your last video.
  • Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
  • Obscure Music That Slaps.
  • Serbian Kolos.
  • The Ketron Event Chrom.
  • The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
  • All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
  • Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
  • Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
  • It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
  • That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
  • Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
  • The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
  • Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
  • All the things you are after you die.
  • The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
  • Making art about how trauma used to exist.
  • Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
  • Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
  • Shepherding noobs.
  • Play Any Video Game Day.
  • Complicated goose controls.
  • Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
  • Learning video games vs. learning board games.
  • Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
  • Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
  • Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
  • Jumping on and off of buildings.
  • Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
  • Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
  • Spelling brunch the secret way.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
  • Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
  • Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
  • Night Brunch.
  • Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
  • A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
  • Hi Cindy!
  • Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
  • Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
  • A Touch of Grandiosity.
  • How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
  • Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
  • It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
  • Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
  • All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
  • Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
  • Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
  • Tuesday at 3:01pm.
  • Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
  • Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
  • Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
  • What art is for and what art should be for.
  • Fun is our only reward.
  • The objective best pitch wheel range.
  • The Funky Worm preset.
  • Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
  • Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
  • thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
  • In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
  • Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
  • Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
  • Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
  • The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
  • The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
  • A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
  • Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
  • Piling onto propaganda music.
  • Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
  • Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
  • With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
  • Only the best crappy music.
  • Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
  • Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
  • The audacity of extreme autotune.
  • All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
  • Singing the comments on your last video.
  • Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
  • Obscure Music That Slaps.
  • Serbian Kolos.
  • The Ketron Event Chrom.
  • The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
  • All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
  • Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
  • Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
  • It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
  • That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
  • Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
  • The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
  • Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
  • All the things you are after you die.
  • The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
  • Making art about how trauma used to exist.
  • Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
  • Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
  • Shepherding noobs.
  • Play Any Video Game Day.
  • Complicated goose controls.
  • Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
  • Learning video games vs. learning board games.
  • Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
  • Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
  • Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
  • Jumping on and off of buildings.
  • Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
  • Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
  • Spelling brunch the secret way.

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]]> 194. How Good It Was, To Have a Toe https://topiclords.com/how-good-it-was-to-have-a-toe 96a5fc09-5f39-4497-808b-5732a965e01c Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Danny and Danny. We discuss redundancy of song lyrics, renaming perfect fourths and fifths, Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer," Upon Julia's Clothes, Oh yes, celebrity deaths getting out of control, and ZZT achievements. 1:19:15 yes Lords: * Danny * Danny Topics: * Most Song Lyrics are redundant * Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong * It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg * Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes * Oh yes * Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control * ZZT has achievements now Microtopics: * Which Danny should go first. * The Noclip Archive. * Night Brunch. * Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness. * Whatever happened to MySpace. * The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with. * Stop making weird things! * Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message. * Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later. * The native language of rock and roll. * Prisencolinensinainciusol. * Irish rap. * All the ways music is redundant. * A very inefficient way to communicate factual information. * The Mentos jingle. * Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons. * Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed. * Teaching kids to love it. * What's perfect about a perfect fifth. * Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison." * Lydian to Locrian. * An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device. * Trying to bring up topics out in the wild. * Even majorer then major. * What it means to be far from A. * A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego. * Keyjazzing. * Weirdos making weirdo outsider art. * The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument. * Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head. * Something to watch. * Economy of movement. * Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space. * The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages. * Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts. * Smutty poetry. * Whether singer songwriters have parentheses. * The Diamond Fleece. * Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word. * Brave Vibrations. * What people thought was sexy in the 1600s. * Talking about a topic because people can hear you. * The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if" * America's Whitest City. * A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said. * Investigating the Cool S for ten years. * Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria. * People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed. * The first celebrity. * Increasing numbers of celebrities. * Industrialized celebrity. * Adopting a future grief machine. * Practicing grief. * Several generations of digital fish. * Trugoy the Dove. * Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music. * Downsides of everyone living forever. * This is a mistake. (Here I go.) * Pre-dead. * Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics. * Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call. * What a time to not want to be alive! * Doing squats so you can get out of a chair. * Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma. * Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames. * ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive. * Caverns of Kroz. * An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups. * Retro Achievements. * Modding emulators to add achievements to old games. * Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F. * Achievements as a ludological device. * Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for. * Citizen Game. * A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not. Lords:

  • Danny
  • Danny

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Which Danny should go first.
  • The Noclip Archive.
  • Night Brunch.
  • Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
  • Whatever happened to MySpace.
  • The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
  • Stop making weird things!
  • Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
  • Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
  • The native language of rock and roll.
  • Prisencolinensinainciusol.
  • Irish rap.
  • All the ways music is redundant.
  • A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
  • The Mentos jingle.
  • Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
  • Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
  • Teaching kids to love it.
  • What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
  • Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
  • Lydian to Locrian.
  • An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
  • Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
  • Even majorer then major.
  • What it means to be far from A.
  • A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
  • Keyjazzing.
  • Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
  • The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
  • Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
  • Something to watch.
  • Economy of movement.
  • Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
  • The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
  • Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
  • Smutty poetry.
  • Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
  • The Diamond Fleece.
  • Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
  • Brave Vibrations.
  • What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
  • Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
  • The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
  • America's Whitest City.
  • A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
  • Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
  • Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
  • People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
  • The first celebrity.
  • Increasing numbers of celebrities.
  • Industrialized celebrity.
  • Adopting a future grief machine.
  • Practicing grief.
  • Several generations of digital fish.
  • Trugoy the Dove.
  • Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
  • Downsides of everyone living forever.
  • This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
  • Pre-dead.
  • Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
  • Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
  • What a time to not want to be alive!
  • Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
  • Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
  • Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
  • ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
  • Caverns of Kroz.
  • An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
  • Retro Achievements.
  • Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
  • Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Achievements as a ludological device.
  • Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
  • Citizen Game.
  • A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.

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  • Danny
  • Danny

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Which Danny should go first.
  • The Noclip Archive.
  • Night Brunch.
  • Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
  • Whatever happened to MySpace.
  • The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
  • Stop making weird things!
  • Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
  • Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
  • The native language of rock and roll.
  • Prisencolinensinainciusol.
  • Irish rap.
  • All the ways music is redundant.
  • A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
  • The Mentos jingle.
  • Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
  • Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
  • Teaching kids to love it.
  • What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
  • Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
  • Lydian to Locrian.
  • An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
  • Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
  • Even majorer then major.
  • What it means to be far from A.
  • A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
  • Keyjazzing.
  • Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
  • The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
  • Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
  • Something to watch.
  • Economy of movement.
  • Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
  • The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
  • Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
  • Smutty poetry.
  • Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
  • The Diamond Fleece.
  • Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
  • Brave Vibrations.
  • What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
  • Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
  • The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
  • America's Whitest City.
  • A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
  • Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
  • Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
  • People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
  • The first celebrity.
  • Increasing numbers of celebrities.
  • Industrialized celebrity.
  • Adopting a future grief machine.
  • Practicing grief.
  • Several generations of digital fish.
  • Trugoy the Dove.
  • Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
  • Downsides of everyone living forever.
  • This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
  • Pre-dead.
  • Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
  • Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
  • What a time to not want to be alive!
  • Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
  • Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
  • Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
  • ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
  • Caverns of Kroz.
  • An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
  • Retro Achievements.
  • Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
  • Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Achievements as a ludological device.
  • Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
  • Citizen Game.
  • A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.

Support Topic Lords

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