Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Finding Even More Minigames In Fist Of The North Star

Good afternoon everyone,

Well, looks like things might be slow until after the New Year's Holiday, so I guess I better work on a commission fan fic or two. Well already started on the one that's already in the pipeline.


Anyway, last night's stream of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise may have seemed not very productive because I only accomplished one achievement (aka trophy), but considering all the side content and how I"m figuring various things out to maximize the rewards, it seems to be for the best.

Perhaps that one thing that took up the most time was discovering the Doctor Kenshiro mini-game, where one must time button presses in sequence to the music to heal patients and eliminate thugs, and it's a madcap bit of fun. Managed to get a B-Rank or higher on mostly every track, the Turkish March is particularly maddening. Still, the idea of Kenshiro as a doctor, and hey, I get to make 'turn your head and cough' and 'Time to check the prostate' jokes every time I play that mini game

Also unlocked the racing mini-game, and I didn't really dive to deep into it as it appears that it will require getting to various points for the races. It might be worth seeing how difficult the races become. Unlocked two harder difficulties for the 'batting practice' mini game, and kind of gained a bit of understanding as it relates to the Club Manager Ken stuff

In terms of the actual plot, we found Xsana's father alive and well, but he's keeping his distance considering actions he did that Xsana isn't too fond of, and we also found Yuria, so for all intents and purposes Kenshiro has reason to stay in Eden. Also the next big bad roll in to set up Chapter 7, so at the very least the next time we play Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise we are leading off with some action.!

After the stream we sent the fun over to Flint_Locke who was doing a music stream! You can find them over at twitch.tv/flint_locke!  

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Trophies

  1. The Man who Reclaimed: Completed Chapter 6.

Twitch Clip Links


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #1, Block Combo and Waist Shape Focus Combo for a duration of 31 minutes and a calorie burn of 477 kcal

Did a little achievement hunting last night as well... actually managed to trigger Akuma in Super Street Fighter II Turbo in the 30th Anniversary Collect. Also surprised at how much nonsense is involved with Street Fighter IV's achievements.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Achievements

  1. The Devil is in the Details: Discovered Akuma in Super Street Fighter II Turbo to prove your worth.

Super Street Fighter IV Achievements

  1. Special Movement: Do a Special Move 100 times! If you're a true student of the Rindo-kan dojo, it's your duty!
  2. EXtra! EXtra!: Battle requires courage! Train by using your EX Gauge to successfully land 100 EX Moves!

Well I finally found something in a quest line in Final Fantasy XIV which I hate, and that is the G-Warrior, which is apart of the The Sorrow of Werlyt Quests. I can totally understand playing as the companion characters... it's a stupid gimmick, but it kind of makes sense to some degree. But to introduce a concept that is clearly ripping from Gundum Wing and Super Sentai with no rhyme or reason other than someone at Square Enix was clearly high as fuck to think it was a good idea. 

I get it, that Neon Genesis Evagelion, the most over-rated anime and manga of all time, still has some influence, but for fucks stake, if that was the case, don't make a cumbersome, sluggish gimmick! It took me an hour to get through the fight that is within the quest 'Sleep Now in Sapphire', and while the story and plot going forward are intriguing the entire episode left a very sour taste in my mouth.

For tonight's stream, it's going to be split with Forza Horizon 4 in the first half and Gears 5 in the second half. Now the plan is for both Iceman and LvStkR to be apart of the Gears 5 shenanigans, so this should be a lot of fun.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

There is a lot to do in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise

Good morning everybody,

You ever look at a game and think, boy things are progressing rather quickly, and wonder where all the content is?


Well that is basically where my head is at with Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise. After knocking out four of the game's eleven chapter in the first night two weeks ago, I finally see where that majority of time of this game would take place for true die-hard players. It's the side content... substories and mini games. 

Now since I have no clue of how deep the lore for Fist of the North Star is, the added sub-stories go out of their way to basically have Kenshiro being deeply involved with the city of Eden, keeping the streets safe, helping out of as Bartender and Club Manager, fighting in the Coliseum and so fourth. This is what is expected to eat up the majority of player's time... and this is where the game becomes daunting, and wondering what I should focus on.

There is also the issue of keeping track of everything, while the main quest destinations are always marked, the in ability to access a map to give an over-head perspective of things. Since sub-stories would have me running all over the place, getting lost seems to be par for the course.

Also discovered an issue with the Bartending mini-games, since I use a wired controller, the cocktail shaker doesn't register the movements one must make to complete it. That is a rather unfortunate little detail. Now this is where folks would say 'why am I using a wired controller', and that's because the PS4 battery life is fucking week in comparison to an X-Box controller.

Following the stream, we sent the fun over to Sw33ts_Gaming who was playing Paladins. You can find their channel over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!

 Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Trophies

  1. The Successor Grows: Unlock 50 abilities.
  2. The Man who Overcame: Completed Chapter 5.

Twitch Clip Links


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured Beginner Combo #2, Weaving Combo #2 and Straight Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and a calorie burn of 472 kcal.

Went after various achievements in several different games last night in Gears 5, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War 4 and WWE 2K Battlegrounds. This was all part of the 12 Days of Christmas challenge that was featured over on www.trueachievements.com. The challenge was to get 1 achievement from different games that had online play.

Gears 5 Achievements

  1. Last Rites: Won a Versus match on Ritual

Tomb Raider - Definitive Edition Achievements

  1. Adventurer: Played a match to completion in all multiplayer modes.
  2. Narcissistic: New character purchased.

Rise of the Tomb Raider Achievements

  1. Quiet Time: Find the best seat in the house

Gears of War 4 Achievements

  1. Rollin' With the Homies: Earned the maximum Consecutive Match Bonus in Versus
  2. I'm On Fire!: You've proved you're a true Grub Killer with a positive KD ratio.
  3. Sorry, That's Never Happened To Me Before: You were in and out of a round of Versus real fast. Inspired by Tuhin94

WWE 2K Battlegrounds Achievements

  1. Nothing personal: Performed 20 taunts

As I started to make some progress in the 5.2 content of Final Fantasy XIV, I came across the Sorrow of Werlyt story arc, which will see me facing the adopted children of Gaius van Baelsar. The first of the trails associated with it, Cinder Drift, was certainly a learning experience, as it's two forms that needed to be dealt with. I kind of jumped the gun when defeating the first form, using the Limit Break, without knowing there was a second form. So the discovery of this story quest takes priority over the Main Story... which means by the time I get to the Endwalker content, I won't have to indicate there are spoilers with the screenshots!.

For tonight's stream, we shall continue Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Monday, December 27, 2021

Unlocked The Mistletoe

Good afternoon everyone,

The final week of the 2021 is here, and that means we are going to start looking ahead to 2022, and getting next year's gaming tour off on the good foot.


But first let's talk about last night's stream of Overwatch, and I don't know what it was with a lot of the people I was playing with but I've never seen the high level of stupidity I witness last night. I  actually played with people who got off the payload right when it was reaching check points on Havanna as I was delaying the opposing team.I would blame it on 'new players', but everyone I was teamed with have had at least 100 hours of game time in. 

Anyway, I got in matches as D.va, Moira, Tracer and Mei, and did some switch offs to Anna and Brigitte in one match. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun in the final hour! we may have ended on a 3 and 5 stretch, but we had fun! Also unlocked all the Mistletoe Symmetra rewards as well, so there's another positive!

After the stream we sent the fun over to Helramma who was also playing Overwatch over at twitch.tv/helramma!  

Twitch Clip Links


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #1, Intermediate Combo 32 and Advanced Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 487 kcal. Here is the update on the my current goals in Fitness Boxing 2... aka, the EX Achievements.

  • 45/50 Hours Trained with Karen for Karen's Champion 
  • 381/400 Acquired Stamps for Honored Stamper
  • 520,115/540,000 total punch count of HITs for Immortal Weight Puncher
  • 84/100 Percent of EX Achievements Acquired for King EX Fighter

To keep my X-Box achievement streak going, I re-installed 1979 Revolution: Black Friday and was able to knock off a lot of achievements really quick. I know there are associated with two full game play sessions based on choices, I didn't think it applied to the collectables as these all popped on the first set of things I encounters for each category.

1979 Revolution: Black Friday Achievements

  1. Shekamu: The Foodie: Unlock all stories about Iranian food and drink.
  2. Jaasoos: The Spy: Unlock all stories relating to the secret police and secret operations.
  3. Taghooti: The Royalist: Unlock all stories relating to the Shah and the royal family.
  4. Enghelabi: The Revolutionary: Unlock all stories relating to revolutionaries or revolutionary activity.
  5. Ostad: Story Master: Unlock all stories in 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
  6. Akaas: The Photographer: Unlock all photo stories by taking every possible photo.
  7. Heepster: The Hipster: Unlock all pop culture related exploration points.
  8. Roshanfekr: The Intellectual: Unlock all political exploration points.
  9. Hajji: The Pilgrim: Unlock all stories relating to religion or clerical leaders
  10. Jam Konandeh: The Collector: Collect all the Khomeini tapes.

I did try to go for the facing Akuma achievement in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection... it didn't work out as I feel I must've done something wrong in regards to beating Sagat in Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Still I managed to at least knock that game off the list... too bad it wasn't on stream. Oh well.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Achievements

  1. Go "Turbo": Beat Super Street Fighter II Turbo. 

My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV progress was focused on wrapping up the 5.1 content, which starts to see some of the ground work for Endwalker fall into place as well as leaving the World of the First in a much better state than it was found it, by establishing leaders and taking care of various quests. The Akadaemia Anyder dungeon was a nice little adventure and fairly relaxing to go through when I put it in comparison to the Alliance Raids I saw for the first time over the last couple of days.

For tonight's stream we will be getting back to business with the big games, as we will be resuming Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Thoughts on Rise of the Tomb Raider's Baba Yaga

Good afternoon everyone,

Hope everyone had a happy and or merry Christmas yesterday! I know my nieces were pleased with the gifts they got this year!


Anyway, last night's stream saw the return of Rise of the Tomb Raider... mostly for achievement purposes and to play the Baba Yaga story. While it is probably more grounded than anything seen in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the Baba Yaga content certainly gives folks a chance to test their puzzle solving abilities under fire, particularly the encounter with the 'witch' herself. There is a little bit of an issue in regards to the obvious identity of the 'witch', as it was quite clear everything was pointing towards it, but overall I enjoyed it.

Of course most of the time I was searching for items, tombs and caves, as there were various things I wanted to accomplish within the game. I did knock out a couple of side missions, but there are still a number of things I still want to do in this game, so don't be surprise to see it back at random times.

Big thanks to LvStrkR for gifting Ori: The Collection to me for Christmas! Much appreciated dude!  

Raids were not working last night on Twitch, and everyone I know was not streaming, so we just closed things out for the night. Very rare that happens!

Rise of the Tomb Raider Achievements

  1. Was That Really Necessary?: Kill any animal with an explosive
  2. Craftswoman: Craft 5 pieces of Equipment
  3. Self-Improvement Junkie: Purchase all skills in one category
  4. These Belong in A Museum: Collect 300 cards
  5. Hide and Seek: Baba Yaga: Rescue Nadia from Trinity
  6. Abandon All Hope: Baba Yaga: Enter the Wicked Vale
  7. A Moment of Clarity: Baba Yaga: Face the Witch and live
  8. Amateur Chemist: Baba Yaga: Craft the Antidote
  9. Season of the Witch: Baba Yaga: Collect 50% of the Documents in the Wicked Vale
  10. Last Ride of the Witch House: Baba Yaga: Activate the Ancient Lift
  11. Truth Behind the Myth: Baba Yaga: Unmask Baba Yaga
  12. Fond Farewell: Baba Yaga: Speak to Nadia again before leaving the Wicked Vale

Twitch Clip Links


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Straight Combo, Triple Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 438 kcal.

Installed Gears 5 last night, and knocked out a few basic achievements, such as the tutorial to get started on it. I'm surprised that Gears 5 is much smaller than Gears of War 4 in terms of how much space it takes up on an Xbox console. 

Gears 5 Achievements

  1. My Body is Ready: Completed Boot Camp
  2. In the Name of..: Acquired Character Skins for 3 different post launch Characters
  3. Controlled Bursts: Won a Match of Horde Frenzy (any difficulty)
  4. Class Act: Reached level five on any one Assault, one Tank and one Support
  5. You've Got Character, Kid: Own 50 character skins

Did a bit of Final Fantasy XIV last night but just to get some featured side quests advanced, so nothing major.

It's time for this week's Twitch Bits Reel! This past week we played Overwatch, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Battletoads, Jump Force, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, The Grand Tour Game, Final Fantasy XIV, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Marvel Super Heroes, Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub-Zero, WWF SmackDown and Rise of the Tomb Raider!, 


It's Sunday which means we'll be playing Overwatch tonight, and we'll be gunning to unlock the Mistletoe Symmetra skin!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone,

I know some folks set off for traveling yesterday, and so I hope everyone made it where they wanted to be for today's holiday!

Last night's stream was a variety night,  featuring four games, and it would've been five, if the UK exclusive, Extreme Ghostbusters; The Ultimate Invasion, would've displayed properly. Oh well.


Anyway, the first game we featured was WWF SmackDown, which was released back in March of 2000 for the PlayStation. Relearning how to play this took some time, as it's fast pace brawler. Sure the matches on normal difficulty would take a few minutes, the biggest issue is figuring out how to stun the opponents to hit the finishers. We did matches with everyone on the roster, mostly singles matches, but also a couple of tag team bouts. Now does it hold up after 20 years... kind of. It is a relic of its time in terms of how it looks, but it's still a fun game.


Next was Marvel Super Heroes, and this was the Japan-region version I picked up last year. Originally released in arcades in October of 1995, the PlayStation got its version in September of 1997. On 'normal' speed, the game is sluggish as hell, but on Turbo its plays really well. We did a few arcade runs, and tried out different characters. My main for this is still Psylocke, as she has a nice variety of moves that fit my frantic play-style. Does it hold up, yes it does, the a.i. may be cheap at times, but it certainly has a nostalgia factor to it.


We spent some time playing Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub-Zero, originally released for the PlayStation in October of 1997... I swear this game is basically what inspired Bloodborne and similar games for its ass-backwards controls and the need to be perfect on everything you do. Don't get me wrong, it is a good looking back,and the cut-scenes are hilarious with the bad acting... but the controls are what hold it back. The button layout is to mimic that of the Mortal Kombat III, and its so against the grain, there is a reason why this game has the level of infamy that it does. I mean you have a button that you need to press to turn around for crying out loud.


Finally the nigh concluded with Capcom Fighting Evolution... the game that is said to be the reason why Capcom did not make a fighting game until Street Fighter IV.... and I don't see why. Sure there is  very uneven look to the game since the sprites from Street Fighter III, Red Earth, Street FIghter Alpha III and Darkstalkers were all ripped from their games, why the sprites for Street Fighter II were basically brand new. Game play wise its solid, Sakura plays as I expect her to, even if her sprite standing next say Chun Li is a clear indicator that this was not exactly a polished product in terms of its presentation. The a.i. is also pretty wonky, as some times its just standing there waiting to get punched and other times it's a tooth and nail fight to the death.

Following the stream we raided ThisGuyTom who was playing Overwatch over at twitch.tv/thisguytom

Twitch Clip Links

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right Step Combo, Double Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2 for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 554 kcal.

My brother and his family tested negative after recently catching Covid, so that is some very good news.

Question) You're in a car, headed north and you see a red fire engine to your right and a fence to your left. There's a horse in front of you and a helicopter behind you. What do you do?

Answer) Put down your drink and carefully get off the merry go round!


My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures, saw me focus on what is the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse Questline, namely to deal with the third alliance raid, following the two that were seen on Thursday's stream. Needless to say it gets very metaphysical in terms of the plot... and I can safely say I'm glad I got that third raid done because I'm very unwilling to want to deal with it again. I've seen some bullshit AOE attacks in the two months of playing Final Fantasy XIV, but having to worry about attacks coming from behind is just insanity!

For tonight's stream, we may just do another variety night, as we'll get back to the normal routine on Sunday's stream. 

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Friday, December 24, 2021

Thank you for a great birthday!

Good afternoon everyone,

We did a 10 hour long stream yesterday, that start started at 12:30 PM and ran to about 10:45 PM, needless to say it was the longest stream of the year by far.


What did we do? Well it was totally dedicated to Final Fantasy XIV, very little progress was made on the Main Story Quest as I focused mostly on doing raids and trials the entire time.We started with the Eden raids, and I learned that the final four can't be accessed until I advance the Main Story to the end of patch 5.2. I'm not a fan of the 'fall of the ledge' gimmick some of these have, but the music is awesome.

Also learned that there is an entire side story arc that ties Final Fantasy XIV with NieR:Automata... which I wasn't expecting. Granted I was not expecting the Monster Hunter tie-in, but a full cross over that actually makes sense in the realm of both Final Fantasy XIV and NieR:Automata (from what I understand, since I didn't play it yet) is pretty incredible. This story arc basically serves as set up for the three Alliance Raids for the Shadowbringers content. Now I only managed to get through the first two Alliance Raids, which were tough as hell... I'm looking forward to seeing what the third one features.


Now I do have a number of thanks you to express as there were a lot of support for the channel during the stream Thank you to Qyndra for the raid, to FelKimChi for the 200 Birthday Bits, to FnDanteSavage and Mitenscirca for the re-subs, and Xx7drdeath7xx for the 10 gift subs! I greatly appreciate the support as ya'll made it a great day!

We sent the fun over to RoseMaryShorn who was playing playing either Pokemon Brillian Diamond or Shiny Pearl, couldn't really tell! Anyway they can be found over at twitch.tv/rosemaryshorn

Twitch Clip Links 


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut Combo, Uppercut Combo #2 and Body Hook Combo for a duration of 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 427 kcal

In term of birthday presents, got a new pair of slippers and a new sleeveless fleece vest to replace the one I've worn for nearly ten years. Thanks mom!

Tried to do some achievement grinding, and managed to bang out another one for Gears of War 4... which I think will be the last one I attempt as it relates to the horde mode, as much as I would like to get all five class types to level 10, it's way too much of a pain in the ass. Did see that the Co-Op vs AI matches work

Gears of War 4 Achievements

  1. Know Your Role: Engineer: You used the Engineer's talents to build 10 improved fortifications
  2. How's it Going to Work? Teamwork!: Won a Casual Co-op Versus match
  3. Custom Made: Won a Match using a non-Starter Character and non-default Weapon Skin
  4. Bot Killer: Killed 25 enemies in Co-op Versus matches

Paul Feig got his underwear in a twist when it was announced the travesty that was Ghostbusters 2016 will not be included in an upcoming box-set that will feature Ghostbusters, Ghostbuster II and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Well lets see why that would be case: one Feig's Ghostbusters was badly written (and guess what he co-wrote it), it had terrible performances from nearly everyone involved, horrible special effects, and oh yeah, Feig and the majority of the leading cast went out of their way to insult the existing Ghostbusters fan base because every one had concerns when the first trailer hit YouTub, and people fucking hated what they saw... which was a mockery of the franchise in the form of a poorly conceived vehicle for Melissa McCarthy

For tonight's stream, I haven't made up my mind fully yet, but we'll be something to something this Christmas Eve!

So we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!





Thursday, December 23, 2021

Well Happy Birthday To Me

Good afternoon everybody,

I have leveled up today, as its my birthday... I am now 39 Years Old. Most would say I'm just wasting my life... they are probably right, but hell, to each their own.


Anyway, last night's stream certainly had no plan as I didn't want to start up anything major or risk finishing a game, so we revisited some old favorites and checked out something I'm considering as a game to feature in 2022.

First up, was the return of The Grand Tour Game, which involved a delay in me doing any gaming during the stream because I had to wait for it to finish installing. It was a great revisit to just doing the first episode. Took me a while to remember how to do things correctly, as I did earned gold medals on every event back in 2020. But something funny happened when I was porting over last night's stream, apparently Amazon doesn't want any footage of the game to exist, and thus blocked the entire stream... so the segment of The Grand Tour Game will be edited out.


Next was Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, this was mostly just trying the score attack. Trying to earn an S Rank in this is not easy, as tracking the ghosts when we get the power pellet is a major weakness. Still managed to get a clutch 'A' Rank, so that's something.

We checked out Battletoads, which game out last year as an X-Box exclusive... and boy the all important aspect of online co-op not being a thing is a major downer. Still it is a game that looks great, is pretty easy to learn the basics of and has some nice humor to it. This is a game we will stream in 2022, which means the save file I've started will be deleted.Still we earned about eight achievements, so that was cool


Finally we jumped back into Jump Force, and I was hoping to get some S-Ranks on Hard Missions to get another achievement and get a step closer to 100% completion, but things did no shake out the way I was hoping in terms of finishing with Awaken Abilities. I did dive back into Jump Force after the stream and was able to knock out the two achievements I want to do... one part thanks to an 'character' event where using One Piece and Yu-gi-Oh character lead to a multiple of two to various mission rewards.

Big thanks as always to Kalenal for the raid during the stream. Last night they were featuring Final Fantasy XIV over on twitch.tv/kalenal!

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Sw33ts_gaming who was playing Super People over on twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming. From what I can tell Super People is just your typical battle royal game.

Battletoads Achievements

  1. Dodgebrawl Champion: Finished a fight without taking damage.
  2. Brawling… With Style!: Earned your first 'S' Rank from an encounter.
  3. Toads in a Hole: Escaped from the simulation bunker.
  4. It Begins…: Got your first collectable.
  5. Road Rash: Went in search of the evil Dark Queen.
  6. Into the Third Dimension: Used your tongue to reach the background.
  7. Battlemaniacs: Defeated 100 enemies.
  8. Parks & Recreational Violence: Battled through a creepy amusement park.

Jump Force Achievements

  1. Reliable Companions: Raised ten support characters above level 70 through battle.
  2. A Master Warrior: Got S rank 10 or more times on Hard Free Missions.

Twitch Clip Links


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Front-Back Step Combo and Beginner Combo #1 for a duration of 28 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 454 kcal.

I can safely say that the rest of this week will feature different games on Friday and Saturday, I might go back to Rise of the Tomb Raider to work on some achievements associated with that on Friday. Would be rather interesting if I go that route. This would mean both Fist of the North Star and Pokemon Shining Pearl being saved for next week.

Managed to finish a fan fic commission based around the WWE in 2010... and got paid for it promptly. Always nice when that happens. Might consider doing another one for the same client. .

For my birthday stream, I will be playing Final Fantasy XIV, and my focus will mostly be with the Eden side quests that were apart of Shadowbringers. We might do other trials and dungeons and stuff as well.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

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