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sircaw
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Not all heros wear capes, some carry an axe.
I for one appreciate
VFXVeteran
input even if I dont agree with everything he says.Hate that people run others off.
Dodkrake
Banned
Those are cross-gen titles. Horizon is a Next Gen exclusive, so you're comparing apples to oranges. And I'm sorry, but if you don't see the generational leap in the trailer, you're blind. As pointed, their in game cinematics match 1:1 their gameplay graphical fidelity, and they did upgrade Zero Dawn between the E3 2016 showing and the final release. I would be massively surprised if the final product doesn't look as good if not better than what we saw.
As for your VFX experience, an appeal to authority is not a very good argument.
GreyHand23
Member
Not all heros wear capes, some carry an axe.
I for one appreciate
Hate that people run others off.
I enjoy arguing with him, even though I think some of what he's saying is solely to rile people up.
sircaw
Banned
Not all heros wear capes, some carry an axe.
I for one appreciate
Hate that people run others off.
That's right guys, take advice from a drug pusher!
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
yep. fuck these guys.
eastwood333
Banned
But that's what they want. Don't allow them to try and bully you on here.
Tripolygon
Banned
I personally don't think you should leave. Just stop talking to people condescendingly, with someone with the amount of knowledge you posted in your resume you could genuinely add a lot to these graphics discussions. You have more experience than the folks at digital foundry so you could definitely add a lot of insight into these discussions rather than doing this PC Elitist schtick.
Just my opinion anyway.
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M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Because maybe, the game is coming out soon, so we get some material. It's just MS demented approach, that they have not show this on some event.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Don’t worry guys, VFX veteran said Horizon 1 on PC will look better than Horizon 2 on PS5 so that makes him as legit as it gets.
Well doesn't all that sound just a tad narcissistic, even to you?
Apparently that appeals to some, so good luck with your media career. At least you'll never have to worry about my critiques as it's unlikely that I'd ever watch another one of your videos.
Still, in parting let me say this. It's easy to claim that you will 'cut through the bullshit' but there's a lot of people outside of your audience that may well think that you're not 'cutting through it' but adding to it.
Take heart though, there's people who think the world is flat and that Covid 19 is a hoax. As the famous saying goes, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".
So you may well be onto a winner.
JonnyMP3
Member
I'm not a big horror person but I too prefer watching the older stuff like The Shining or the Fly, compared to newer stuff like Saw and Paranormal Activity.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
SAW aint horror. It's just gore porn made to satisfy degenerates
AeneaGames
Member
Huh, that was not the video I wanted to post! I posted that one earlier, grmpf, stupid phone
splattered
Member
Technically we don't know if he is wrong yet... we haven't seen HZ1 maxed out on PC vs actual HZ2 gameplay that isn't bullshot cut scenes/CGI
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eastwood333
Banned
I mean, the guy can't get a word in with out being constantly bombarded by a group of certain fans insulting him or antagonizing him if he says anything remotely negative against a group's preferred platform, no matter how truthful or coherent it is. It's hard to have a civil discussion otherwise.
It's similar to what this same audience does to Alex, Richard Ledbetter, or even John. It's not PC/Xbox/Switch fans attacking these people.
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sircaw
Banned
Thirty7ven
Banned
Sure buddy, good luck with that.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Not all heros wear capes, some carry an axe.
I for one appreciate
Hate that people run others off.
My only grievance with him is his attitude. He certainly has knowledge that I could learn from in general. Lots of it. The issue I take is that he purports perception as fact. None of us actually know what the devs of the game know. What the hardware on either side is truly capable of ..etc. That all said, his commentary starting to throw names, and say who will leave with him...etc. That sounds like him threatening the community.
My statement about not losing sleep if he left, .. I speak for me. I can't have a proper conversation and debate with even an agreement to disagree with someone who can't do the same. When he started threatening to take people with him if he left.. well, that's my reaction. Wrong or right, it's my reaction.
AeneaGames
Member
JonnyMP3
Member
I'll agree with the rest but the first Saw was definitely horror.
sircaw
Banned
This is the one I wanted to post about fish bowls!
Behold your Destiny, one false move, your done for.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
All you do is complain about Sony fans
Both of you should drop your shtick and you'll get the civil discussions you pretend you're after
splattered
Member
I want HZ2 and HB2 to both look like the trailers we've seen but i don't want to set myself up for disappointment when they finally release... we know they are both going to look great but i think they were both also presented at a level the developers won't be able to deliver on come launch.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Eastwood, I'm sure you're both good people. When the first things a person does when coming in to a forum is to be defensive and come off as arrogant and all knowing, things just don't go well. Sure, maybe there are reasons people are defensive, but everything is perception.
When all perception was that the XSX was all powerful and PS5 was underpowered by a good margin, many supporters of XBOX were instantly in attack mode across the board on any forum or social media platform. MS XBOX and media were firing shots at Sony left and right, and when their showcase didn't seem to be epic mic drop night, Playstation Supporters went on the offensive to retaliate. Fanatics are going to fanatic.
The guy would have been able to have civil disagreement if his approach were civil. The same goes for anyone.
ArcaneNLSC
Member
Thirty7ven
Banned
Don’t put them in the same basket. Horizon wasn’t a target render running at 24 FPS, letterbox, of a game years away and made by an average studio who isn’t known for delivering benchmark visuals.
They showed edited cutscenes, running on a PS5, for a game about a year away from release, and Guerrilla is a top tier studio with pedigree.
So again, don’t put these in the same basket.
Tripolygon
Banned
While i don't support a lot of the dogpiling effect that happens sometimes, other times it is so deserved. Like claiming you know someone at Naughtydog who told you the specs of PS5 but when you turn out wrong, you shift the goalpost and claim you were right. Like saying you are of a higher caliber as a film vfx artist than a game developer even though a lot of game developers come from film background and game developers use the same tools as vfx artist, the irony of it. If you've managed to get yourself banned or ran out of every games forum you engage in, at some point you have to start having some introspection.
FunkMiller
Member
In another thread, in response to my comment, the first thing you accuse me of is being dumb because I have a different opinion.
And you wonder why you get negativity and can’t have a civil discussion?
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Shmunter
Member
The way this could go is only one way; even if HZ1 pc was to be a remaster job, with the latest engine, effects ultra everything. Sony would not allow their own game on another platform compete with themselves during a new gen launch - so that would not happen. They need PS5 to look as mighty as possible and unless they’ve completely forgotten the value of platform exclusives, which is pretty unlikely.
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Explosive Zombie
Banned
I like the Saw movies how dare you
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
This is nonsense. You have been shown the difference between cross gen games and sony's ps5 games several times across several different threads, and yet in the face of overwhelming evidence you continue to deny reality like a 9/11 truther.
And no, this isnt about Halo Infinite. I had used the Halo clips from their bullshit inengine demo that was downgraded to oblivion to make prior comparison. You can look at watch dogs or AC odyssey or destiny 2 immediately see the difference. But Horizon 2 literally looks a gen ahead of their target render.
Cross gen foliage.
Next gen Foliage:
Cross gen wild life:
Next Gen Wild life:
Cross gen Character models:
Next gen character models:
And again, thats from a target render that even the XSX version couldnt come close to.
Your cross gen talk is nonsense.
VanSiriusGabriel
Member
Did you work on Chicken Little, Matrix, Ice Age and Shrek 2? Like, the fuck? You are my childhood.Are you going to give me a job or something?
COMPUTER SKILLS
 Programming Languages: C/C++11, C#, x86 Assembly, Java, and Python
 Operating Systems: Windows and Linux/Unix
 Applications: Maya, Unity, Unreal, Visual Studio IDE, Nsight Compute and GPU PerfStudio
 Graphics Skills: CUDA, OpenGL, DirectX, GLSL, OpenSceneGraph, VR/AR, HoloLens, Arnold, and
Renderman
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Primary Developer of the first shareware volumetric cloud plugin for Autodesk’s popular Maya 3D software
package. As a part of this achievement, Autodesk distributed this plugin on their Conductor’s CD at
SIGGRAPH99 to all developers. Samples of work was published in the 3rd Edition of Texturing & Modeling:
A Procedural Approach by David Ebert, Ken Perlin, Ken Musgrave, and Darwyn Peachey.
 Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society
EDUCATION
Game Institue, Online Oct 2016 – May 2017
 C# Programming
 3D Graphics and Game Engine Programming using OpenGL
 Game Mathematics
 Unity
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD December 1999
 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Community College of the Air Force, Montgomery, AL
 Associate of Applied Science in Avionics Guidance and Control
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Lockheed Martin Missle & Fire Control, Grand Prarie, TX June 2017 – Present
Sr. Software Engineer (SECRET CLEARANCE)
Modeling/Simulation Framework (Missile Simulation Framework);
TacWarrior/Sceptre(OSGEarth realtime application);
HoloLens(AR/VR application R&D);
 Developer of Operational Flight Program (OFP) and Modeling and Simulation Framework (MSF)
for missile flight simulation using C++/CUDA.
 Helped develop MSF/OFP infrastructure using AGILE, Scrum and code reviews using confluence
 Primary Developer of TacScape/TacWarrior OpenGL realtime visualization
 Mentor of a small team of developers for C++ algorithms support with TTVS
 Developer of GLSL shaders for our custom realtime rendering software using OpenScenGraph
 Helped develop a test case of AR/VR application for the US military using Unity 3D
 Collaborate with teams to complete US Navy/Army contracts using flight planning software.
ReelFX Animation Studios, Dallas, TX Nov 2007 – Oct 2016
Sr. Software Engineer
Scooby-Doo (upcoming CG Animated Feature Film);Free Birds(CG Animated Feature Film); Book of Life (CG
Animated Feature Film); Looney Tunes Shorts (CG Animated Shorts);
 Primary Developer of all in-house shaders including various physically-based materials such as
hair, diffuse, specular, refraction, procedural textures, and procedural geometry.
 Researched and Developed various path tracing techniques such as importance sampling for
solving inherent noise issues as a result of using a path tracer/Monte Carlo rendering.
 Primary Developer on the Alembic Pipeline for Maya/Arnold.
 Software Lead for developing tools for our texture and lighting departments such as applications
rendering physically-based lighting and shading, as well as procedural phenomena like smoke,
terrain, and surfaces
 Designer/Implementor for the entire shader building pipeline using Arnold, Renderman and
Mental Ray
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank, CA Jan 2005 – Aug 2007
Sr. Software Engineer
Chicken Little(CG Animated Feature Film); Meet the Robinsons (CG Animated Feature Film); Bolt (CG Animated
Feature Film)
 Primary owner, Developer and support of the FX volume renderer for creating special effects such as clouds,
smoke, fire, etc.
 Look development software supporter for tools such as TileTool, Render pipeline scripts, Lumiere for Maya,
and Cloth (Flattener) tools.
 Designer/Implementor for the entire shader building pipeline using Renderman.
Omation Studios, San Clemente, CA May 2004 – Dec 2004
R&D Programmer
The Barnyard (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Primary Author and Developer of the texture and lighting tools for development of shaders and
texture/lighting pipeline support for the 3d animated feature The Barnyard
 Troubleshot scenes that have rendering issues with Mental Ray in the XSI environment
PDI/Dreamworks, Redwood City, CA July 2003 – April 2004
FX Developer
Shrek 2 (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Developed a particle map tool for use in creating decals and designs on clothing, wet maps for the
appearence of water on skin, and projections of textures on surfaces.
 Implemented an extruding curve geometry tool for use in creating various procedural geometric objects like
vines, foliage, and hair. This allowed curve primatives to have actual uv surfaces for using displacement
mapping and texturing.
 Developed the fx_glitter tool that allowed the director to use any geometric primitive on any procedural
point on a curve. This tool was used for creating glitter in hair for a character in Shrek2.
ESC Entertainment, Alameda, CA April 2002 – June 2003
Color & Lighting TD - ShaderWriter
The Matrix: Reloaded (Feature Film); The Matrix: Revolutions (Feature Film)
 Primary Author and Developer of the entire procedural noise library for development of shaders for Matrix
Revolutions using Mental Ray’s API.
 Primary Developer and supporter of various VFX tools for Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions.
 Designer/Implementor of Mental->Maya shader conversion tool. This tool allowed the user to view
MentalRay shaders in Maya and switch back and forth between the two to bypass the process of exporting
shaders from Maya.
20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios, White Plains, NY Jan 2000 – Dec 2001
Production Programmer
Ice Age (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Co-Author and Co-Developer of Blue Sky Studio’s ConvertShader Tool for Maya.
 Designer/Implementor of the Maya Poser Tool for Animators/Riggers.
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sircaw
Banned
Don't play the victim card mate. You have an agenda on these forums and you have been pushing it like a lot of people have for ages.
You don't smell of roses, just like I don't.
Don't be Disengionous.
JonnyMP3
Member
You should have used the crab lolThis is nonsense. You have been shown the difference between cross gen games and sony's ps5 games several times across several different threads, and yet in the face of overwhelming evidence you continue to deny reality like a 9/11 truther.
And no, this isnt about Halo Infinite. I had used the Halo clips from their bullshit inengine demo that was downgraded to oblivion to make prior comparison. You can look at watch dogs or AC odyssey or destiny 2 immediately see the difference. But Horizon 2 literally looks a gen ahead of their target render.
Cross gen foliage.
Next gen Foliage:
Cross gen wild life:
Next Gen Wild life:
Cross gen Character models:
Next gen character models:
And again, thats from a target render that even the XSX version couldnt come close to.
Your cross gen talk is nonsense.
Shmunter
Member
I feel bad for lambasting him, but geez he gets on my tits. The shit he says, geezNot all heros wear capes, some carry an axe.
I for one appreciate
Hate that people run others off.
I recommended to drop the verified thing and things would be so much more chill without the scrutiny. Still recommending it, doesn’t mean I’m saying vfx should, totally his choice.
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Apollo Helios
Member
For Guerrilla's case it is almost certain that the final product not only will hit these visual level, if possible they will also improve upon it. It is also likely Ninja Theory will also hit the mark. So we will see when these games release. HFW will release earlier too and most likely it will be a generational leap as can be seen from the reveal that everyone thought was just CGI (praise it as much but only doubting it will be in-game) while that was actually realtime in-game in engine cinematic that also included no HUD gameplay. No HUD gameplay has become the Sony First Party Studios shtick and while Sony fans have realized this behavior, others have found bliss in willful ignorance. Just go back and search the discussions on whether TLOU 2 and GoT E3 videos were in-game or even these were in fact PS4 games or perhaps next gen PS5 titles for having those visuals if true and not CGI... There you have it. Sony FP can deliver CGI quality in the final retail product, and not all studios can do that.
Insomniac didn't actually sold the IP to anyone, not MS and not Sony, since MS was the publisher, they wanted to own the IP too but the studio didn't sell it. They still have the IP belong to Studio, and Studio is owned by Sony so is the IP; but I don't think Sony would do nothing with the IP that was once only related to Xbox. Studio itself may want to follow up on it but I guess, the final say would lay on Sony, even Studio is interested. And I think the Studio also would not be interested to follow up on that too, they have much bigger fish to fry as the saying goes.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
sircaw
Banned
Are you going to give me a job or something?
COMPUTER SKILLS
 Programming Languages: C/C++11, C#, x86 Assembly, Java, and Python
 Operating Systems: Windows and Linux/Unix
 Applications: Maya, Unity, Unreal, Visual Studio IDE, Nsight Compute and GPU PerfStudio
 Graphics Skills: CUDA, OpenGL, DirectX, GLSL, OpenSceneGraph, VR/AR, HoloLens, Arnold, and
Renderman
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Primary Developer of the first shareware volumetric cloud plugin for Autodesk’s popular Maya 3D software
package. As a part of this achievement, Autodesk distributed this plugin on their Conductor’s CD at
SIGGRAPH99 to all developers. Samples of work was published in the 3rd Edition of Texturing & Modeling:
A Procedural Approach by David Ebert, Ken Perlin, Ken Musgrave, and Darwyn Peachey.
 Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society
EDUCATION
Game Institue, Online Oct 2016 – May 2017
 C# Programming
 3D Graphics and Game Engine Programming using OpenGL
 Game Mathematics
 Unity
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD December 1999
 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Community College of the Air Force, Montgomery, AL
 Associate of Applied Science in Avionics Guidance and Control
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Lockheed Martin Missle & Fire Control, Grand Prarie, TX June 2017 – Present
Sr. Software Engineer (SECRET CLEARANCE)
Modeling/Simulation Framework (Missile Simulation Framework);
TacWarrior/Sceptre(OSGEarth realtime application);
HoloLens(AR/VR application R&D);
 Developer of Operational Flight Program (OFP) and Modeling and Simulation Framework (MSF)
for missile flight simulation using C++/CUDA.
 Helped develop MSF/OFP infrastructure using AGILE, Scrum and code reviews using confluence
 Primary Developer of TacScape/TacWarrior OpenGL realtime visualization
 Mentor of a small team of developers for C++ algorithms support with TTVS
 Developer of GLSL shaders for our custom realtime rendering software using OpenScenGraph
 Helped develop a test case of AR/VR application for the US military using Unity 3D
 Collaborate with teams to complete US Navy/Army contracts using flight planning software.
ReelFX Animation Studios, Dallas, TX Nov 2007 – Oct 2016
Sr. Software Engineer
Scooby-Doo (upcoming CG Animated Feature Film);Free Birds(CG Animated Feature Film); Book of Life (CG
Animated Feature Film); Looney Tunes Shorts (CG Animated Shorts);
 Primary Developer of all in-house shaders including various physically-based materials such as
hair, diffuse, specular, refraction, procedural textures, and procedural geometry.
 Researched and Developed various path tracing techniques such as importance sampling for
solving inherent noise issues as a result of using a path tracer/Monte Carlo rendering.
 Primary Developer on the Alembic Pipeline for Maya/Arnold.
 Software Lead for developing tools for our texture and lighting departments such as applications
rendering physically-based lighting and shading, as well as procedural phenomena like smoke,
terrain, and surfaces
 Designer/Implementor for the entire shader building pipeline using Arnold, Renderman and
Mental Ray
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank, CA Jan 2005 – Aug 2007
Sr. Software Engineer
Chicken Little(CG Animated Feature Film); Meet the Robinsons (CG Animated Feature Film); Bolt (CG Animated
Feature Film)
 Primary owner, Developer and support of the FX volume renderer for creating special effects such as clouds,
smoke, fire, etc.
 Look development software supporter for tools such as TileTool, Render pipeline scripts, Lumiere for Maya,
and Cloth (Flattener) tools.
 Designer/Implementor for the entire shader building pipeline using Renderman.
Omation Studios, San Clemente, CA May 2004 – Dec 2004
R&D Programmer
The Barnyard (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Primary Author and Developer of the texture and lighting tools for development of shaders and
texture/lighting pipeline support for the 3d animated feature The Barnyard
 Troubleshot scenes that have rendering issues with Mental Ray in the XSI environment
PDI/Dreamworks, Redwood City, CA July 2003 – April 2004
FX Developer
Shrek 2 (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Developed a particle map tool for use in creating decals and designs on clothing, wet maps for the
appearence of water on skin, and projections of textures on surfaces.
 Implemented an extruding curve geometry tool for use in creating various procedural geometric objects like
vines, foliage, and hair. This allowed curve primatives to have actual uv surfaces for using displacement
mapping and texturing.
 Developed the fx_glitter tool that allowed the director to use any geometric primitive on any procedural
point on a curve. This tool was used for creating glitter in hair for a character in Shrek2.
ESC Entertainment, Alameda, CA April 2002 – June 2003
Color & Lighting TD - ShaderWriter
The Matrix: Reloaded (Feature Film); The Matrix: Revolutions (Feature Film)
 Primary Author and Developer of the entire procedural noise library for development of shaders for Matrix
Revolutions using Mental Ray’s API.
 Primary Developer and supporter of various VFX tools for Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions.
 Designer/Implementor of Mental->Maya shader conversion tool. This tool allowed the user to view
MentalRay shaders in Maya and switch back and forth between the two to bypass the process of exporting
shaders from Maya.
20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios, White Plains, NY Jan 2000 – Dec 2001
Production Programmer
Ice Age (CG Animated Feature Film)
 Co-Author and Co-Developer of Blue Sky Studio’s ConvertShader Tool for Maya.
 Designer/Implementor of the Maya Poser Tool for Animators/Riggers.
Matrix reloaded..... Give Peresphone pix, will trade in Amanda Cerny for Monica Bellushi
Shmunter
Member
Yeah, not cool bro. Learn from it, go with peace
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I do love GoT. I'm not sure it looks as good as that E3 presentation, so I'm not sure whether what was shown was in game or in engine.
lepermessiah
Member
Just a reminder that appeals to authority are logically fallacious. You can have a Ph.D. and yet still be rife with cognitive biases.
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Apollo Helios
Member
Yeah fucking finally, someone with logic and reason, it doesn't take a three digit genius to figure this out, they can not EVER cannibalize their own next gen system with their previous offering (and their next gen offering have to be top notch) IF they want to make generations matter and make everyone jump to the next gen as soon as possible, and that is what Sony has been doing from the start. That start actually came long before the generation ended, the long drought of 2 years of silence and no new AAA game announcements is no chance, it is deliberate. They have been working on a bang for a launch and launch window line up and at least 1 more year after the launch window. So 18 months (that's 1,5 years) of content is most definitely mapped out for PS5 generation. What we have seen till now, the ones that had either long gameplay segments or just seconds snippets, are all going to be in this period. And since they are close to release, these look like the final thing. Sorry to do this but they are not 343, they will deliver on their reveals.
sircaw
Banned
This is nonsense. You have been shown the difference between cross gen games and sony's ps5 games several times across several different threads, and yet in the face of overwhelming evidence you continue to deny reality like a 9/11 truther.
And no, this isnt about Halo Infinite. I had used the Halo clips from their bullshit inengine demo that was downgraded to oblivion to make prior comparison. You can look at watch dogs or AC odyssey or destiny 2 immediately see the difference. But Horizon 2 literally looks a gen ahead of their target render.
Cross gen foliage.
Next gen Foliage:
Cross gen wild life:
Next Gen Wild life:
Cross gen Character models:
Next gen character models:
And again, thats from a target render that even the XSX version couldnt come close to.
Your cross gen talk is nonsense.
I hope there is an ocean quest where she has to fight and kill a Megladon
.
Apollo Helios
Member
No comment just decide for yourself. Let the game videos speak. In fact you're welcome to mute the Brit LOL Though I have to point out that his explanation is bang on the money.
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FunkMiller
Member
I hope there is an ocean quest where she has to fight and kill a Megladon
Hmmm. This is Horizon, so it’ll probably be called a TeethFin... or a CrunchWater.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
I hope they go with sircaw
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