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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 28 WIP #1: On Thin Ice

Finally have enough work done on 5D’s 28 to start showing it off a bit! I’d gotten started on it about 2-3 weeks ago and drafted up most of the dialogue, so now I’ve gone back to add the music and all. The effect applied to the video later is to get through the Content ID system, which kept blocking that section (managed to edit the early parts enough to avoid it there, and then the ending bit wasn’t blocked because 4Kids didn’t dub that Carly scene)

Here, along with showing off the Card Showcase bit–where I used Duel Links lines again to cover for Rua and Ruka’s lines–I also have the recap tweak to the end of episode 27, where the “Dark Tuning” track was pitched up and sped up a bit.

In the episode proper, you have the scene with the Dark Signers talking about Yusei–where I moved Roman’s “new champion” line to play where Demak originally said it after the rapid zoom-out, mixed with a laugh to space his lines out a bit–and then back at the duel, when possessed!Dick uses Dark Tuner Catastrogue’s effect, which I had to stitch together a proper explanation for, since an annoying Card Interruption did it in the dub; I recycled bits from episode 27 when he activated Blizzard Lizard’s and Call of the Haunted’s effects, then moved his line about the shadows to later when I redid his declaring Frozen Fitzgerald’s attack and explaining its effect to take out a ton of fluff. I moved Carly’s lines about “what we’re seeing” and real damage to play during the scene here where she sneezes that was cut from the dub, using Japanese Carly’s sneezing, and then I recycled Dick ending his turn from 27 to take out his fluff about Goodwin and just stick to the JP script.

Special thanks to yugidmx5 again for isolating the vocals for Roman’s “new champion” and some of Dick’s lines; the latter let me also stitch together a “Blizzard Strike!!” shout for Frozen Fitzgerald’s attack. Their help with that will also be helping with Turret Warrior later and other lines I’ll be trying to work in. (Preliminarily, I may have to keep the scenes with Yusei at the end of the episode talking about having to see Goodwin and “hiring” Ushio as a bodyguard because I don’t have enough dialogue from either of them to make it totally more accurate to the Japanese version, but I might be able to edit it enough so that it’s not so blatantly obvious the latter was an added thing… Be nice if I knew folks who could re-record the dialogue, lol.)

Stay tuned for more WIPs as I get work done on this!

TIL just browsing Spotify out of curiosity that ~~Alice Nine~~ A9(?) re-recorded CROSS GAME in their 15th Anniversary special release in 2019 👀 👀 👀

Also, ALvino also re-recorded Close to You in 2013 along with some of the other songs in that single and it sounds amazing how am I just hearing this now

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Analysis- Yusei Fudo vs. Capitalism

I knew there was a reason 5D’s spoke to me… Enjoyed it a lot when watching it as it aired while in my late-teens/early-20s at college, but now that I’m more politically aware, including re: Marx/Debs/etc, I can appreciate it a bit more, lol.

And Yusei’s whole philosophy of placing the bonds he has with his friends over all else is a lot like Eugene Debs’s philosophy of “when I rise, it will be among the ranks, not from the ranks.” 5D’s is such a good show, despite the chaos later. A+ analysis here 🌹 (his analysis on Judai’s development in GX was also a great 10-12min summary, though I like some of the longer ones out there lol).

Watch 5D’s subbed pls

5D’s Episode 27… with an “Uncut” Dub?! (Re-Edited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST - Revised)

“A World Without Light – The Dark Synchro Frozen Fitzgerald!”/”A Web of Deceit (Part 1)″

Everybody listen!

Took long enough to finish up and polish (partly because of work and activism life actually picking up a bit), but here’s a brand-new “dub-uncut” episode! With my first few takes in episodes 23-26 newly revised, I was looking forward to working on 27 and starting fresh again, lol. In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here, let’s get you up to speed:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed). Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here. To this end, I’ve also used dialogue from Duel Links where applicable, or even borrowed audio from other episodes with the vocals isolated to lend to that effect.

Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!

Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1 WIP #2 WIP #3 WIP #4 WIP #5

So, this one was fun to do particularly because overall, save for the, er… butchering that happened on explaining the Dark Synchro mechanic (4Kids wut) and the rewrite of Carly’s interaction with her Editor-in-Chief (and making Carly a “blogger” lol), the dialogue was already more or less in line with the Japanese version, which meant that I was more or less just removing a lot of the fluff as I added back the OST. As I did in 22, 24, and 26, I added subs for the scenes where 4Kids rewrote things a bit too much for my taste (so, the scenes I mentioned above, but also the occasional line or a few), but of course these subs will be optional in the MKV I release on NAC for this. I also added back some SFX and tried to remove the dub’s replacement SFX in most cases, though I had to swap out the SFX as Speed Warrior was tuning with Junk Synchron since 4Kids had a tendency to add some new one over the original SFX and made it too loud to work with the Yusei chant I put there. And I translated the OP/ED credits in Last Train and CROSS GAME, revamping my singable lyrics a bit for Last Train while drafting new ones for CROSS GAME which I’ll post soon; you can see my Last Train translation in the second WIP video and CROSS GAME’s here. Full process breakdown below the cut.

Also, major thanks to yugidmx5 for providing A+ rips of the “The Day Begins/Tenpei” theme in the Carly/Angela scene, the “Vision of Tragedy” theme as Yusei and Ruka talk about the Satellite’s future, and the alternate “Dark Signers” tune which plays as we first see them and then again between the Dark Signer drones recruiting and Yusei chasing Dark-Signer!Dick down (before it transitions to the OST-released version once Yusei gets to the building under construction); I know that since these came out well, he’s working on better rips for some or most of the unreleased OST, so stay tuned there (I also drafted up a full version of the alternate DS theme, but had to get creative since they didn’t play all of it in this alternate style; will post soon). And thanks to Tiny Spider Productions, who provided the “shock” SFX playing as Carly sees Yusei’s arm actually glowing in her car, some inspo here/there for dialogue fixes, and provided CurtisH from CastingCallClub’s recording he did voicing a line from Tanner translating the original line about the four Signers they know which 4Kids cut short.

I hope folks enjoy! Just breezing through 28 often for lines to use here, I can tell it’s going to be a headache because they did throw in a lot more jankiness in the dialogue… So, fun. 🙃 Once I handle finalizing my subs for GX 56 (and possibly 57 due to how long this took), I’ll start drafting it out; stay tuned~

(And if you’re able to reblog for visibility, it’d be appreciated given Tumblr’s suckage with links 🙏🏽)

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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #4: The Dark Signers Appear

(Don’t mind the extra effects, YouTube being YouTube and all they were needed to get past the Content ID match)

Been a bit eager to show this one off, haha. So, in the last WIP, we left off with Carly’s intro; here, I show off the near-final product of the scenes with the Dark Signers making their first appearance, along with Yusei and co discussing their birthmarks (including my attempt to fix the dub’s dumb mistake calling Yusei’s the “Head” mark, but since I didn’t have a clip of him saying “tail” handy, I combined a clip of him saying “T[ake]” with another one to give me the “ail” sound, along with tweaking Leo’s line after; if someone knows an episode in which dub!Yusei might have said “tail,” lemme know lol), and then possessed Dick showing up to duel Yusei.

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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #3 - A Foreboding/Carly on the Scene

New WIP video! Would’ve uploaded one sooner, but I was working on a footage fix for finalized!GX 56 (fixed the backwards store signs as Ryou’s walking in 57!). (Fourth upload now, and thought I’d just go back to the effect I used in my second WIP video… dangit YouTube)

Anywho, showing off the scene with Yusei and Ruka discussing the vision they saw, and then Carly’s interrupting Angela to ask Godwin a question to lead into her driving scene. First, major thanks again to yugidmx5 for the great-quality rip they were able to provide for the “Vision” theme playing in the former scene; I tweaked the dialogue a bit near the end to remove Yusei’s commercial-break-inducing monologue by looping footsteps and recycling an earlier gasp along with a “Hmm” sound he makes. For the first Carly/Angela scene, I was able to shorten Carly’s dialogue over her fortune card to match the JP lines a bit more by slightly slowing the relevant parts and using those, while I removed Goodwin’s “sheen/sunshine” line by getting “still” from episode 23 and keeping the line at “I’m afraid I didn’t see that.”

As Carly’s driving scene comes up, I had to shorten her line to remove “that means I’m onto something” (for recycling later) and keep it at “Goodwin dodged my question! Better not let it slip…”, then as she’s driving, the Editor’s last line to her was shortened a bit given it was fluffed up in the dub, while I let Carly’s line play on a different audio track so that as his line finished Carly’s line starts as she starts lip-flapping (unfortunately, with the limited audio, I couldn’t do away with the Editor’s junk lines about what interns are supposed to do). Then, as she sees Yusei’s arm glowing, I had to shorten her line a bit because the dub held it on Yusei to give her extra dialogue; I grabbed “wait” and “there it is” from somewhere, shortened her line about Goodwin to just “Goodwin tried to feed me that bit,” and borrowed “The whole world will know…” from later on (as it’ll go unused; thanks to Tiny Spider Productions for the inspiration with his take on a Dub-Uncut #27). Also, Veronica Taylor does make a great Carly, which is nice to hear with the original OST.

(BTW, don’t suppose anyone has that one SFX handy that plays when Carly sees Yusei’s birthmark? I’d like to have it to play in full instead of having it cut off the way it is now because of how I spliced the line, lol.)

Lemme know what you think! This should be how these scenes sound in the final product, which I’m still going over, but I’ll likely be able to wrap up by the end of the week; I’ll likely have another WIP or two coming!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #2 - Enter Stutter-Stammer Carly

Wow, this new arc looks brilliantly flashy!

~~nah, it’s just me making sure YouTube doesn’t block, don’t mind it lol~~

Getting into episode 27 proper after the first WIP weeks ago, here’s another preview of what I’ve been working on! Work’s been gradually coming along on this; I’ve drafted the music and dialogue for much of the episode, so now I’m tweaking things and adding SFX where needed. I wanted to show off this clip, but wanted to also retranslate the Last Train OP and actually translate the ED, which I just finished up (I’d already translated Last Train for myself a while back, while I’d never done CROSS GAME, which also had me write up some singable translated lyrics for it that I’ll flesh out and post sometime).

Here, for Carly’s debut scene, first off: major thanks to yugidmx5; they provided a cleaner rip of the in-hindsight-poorly-named “Tenpei” theme for me to work with, along with some other help later in the episode. Dialogue-wise, I cut out some of Angela’s offscreen fluff dialogue by throwing in the Japanese audio as Carly got herself ready, then cut Carly’s “from one journalist to another” bit as she walks over after Angela shoves her and gets Yusei’s name wrong (which I’d have edited out, but not much to work with lol; I also edited Angela’s line a bit to remove her last name since, well, she never had one originally). Wish they kept Angela calling her “Stutter-Stammer Carly…” Then, I looped some of the crowd chanting “Yusei!” at the end to edit out Yusei’s unneeded internal monologue. And then, we get into the fully translated OP, which speaks for itself, lol.

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5D’s Episode 26… with an Uncut Dub?! (Re-Edited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST - Revised)

“The Fate of the Signers! A Future Shown by the Crimson Dragon!”/”The Fortune Cup Finale (Part 2)″

Everybody listen!

This episode’s all revised and looking nice! In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here, let’s get you up to speed:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed). Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.
Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!
Check out this episode’s WIP videos! REDO WIP #1 OLD WIP #1 OLD WIP #2 OLD WIP #3 OLD WIP #4

Revising this one didn’t take too long, since I was already pretty happy with how things came out originally; check out the original breakdown post here for more details on how what edits went into that. As I looked through it this time, all I really did was tweak audio levels and add SFX here/there and crossfade some lines of dialogue better, as well as make the reverb effects on the MC and thought lines consistent with how I’ve done them in prior episodes. I did also manage to stitch together an explanation from Yusei for Meteor Stream (I’d left Japanese Yusei’s explanation intact with subs before since I didn’t think I could, but I tried to stitch something together this time); I think I combined audio from episodes 24 and earlier in 26 with some Duel Links lines. I tried to make it crossfade well and sound as best as I could, so hopefully it’s not too jarring; you can hear it in the REDO WIP #1 video. yugidmx5 over on NAC also helped get a better-sounding “Absolute Powerforce!!” shout from Jack in episode 5 so I can mix it up with the Duel Links line and make it have a bit more umph.

Also, as I did with 22 and 24, I added subs in some parts where the dub went too far into right field and deviated from the Japanese script–for things like card effect explanations, Godwin’s plot thoughts, and that ending scene as Yusei tells Jack why he lost. As before, when I release it on NAC, these subs will be optional.

Enjoy folks! Now that 21-26 are all done and finalized, I’ll get to try dub-uncutting the early Dark Signer episodes! Should be neat. I’ll work on 27 after I finalize my GX 54 subs and deal with Manjoume taking on his mini-me. ~~rip nani ka na nani ka naaa maybe~~

5D's Episode #24... Uncut?! (Reedited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST)

“Victim Sanctuary - Be the Star Engulfing Destruction! Stardust Dragon” | “Duel of the Dragons (Part 2)”

Everybody listen! Got this one all nice and redone! In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here, let’s get you up to speed:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed). Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.
Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!
Check out this episode’s WIP videos! REDO WIP #1 OLD WIP #1 REDO WIP #2 OLD WIP #2 REDO WIP #3
Check out Version 1 of this episode for comparison’s sake!

Really enjoying how this one came out, even though the script wasn’t as accurate as last episode–requiring me to do what I did with 22 and make use of subs where 4Kids deviated far from the Japanese script that I couldn’t restore the original context–this will only be for this hardsub, as I’ll be offering softsubs on NAC alongside it. Full breakdown below the cut, as it got kinda long, lol.

Enjoy, folks! With this out of the way, I think revising 25 and 26 will be much more of a cinch, as that was when I really hit my stride in terms of editing; adding back some Synchro chants might be all I need to do, but fingers crossed… Meanwhile, I’m slowly getting things ready to start work on finalizing my GX Season 2 subs, so stay tuned there!

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5D’s Dub-Uncut 24 (REDO) WIP #2: Duel of the Dragons Incoming

So, as noted before, YouTube has apparently gotten stingier with my WIP videos; it’s been a pain to show off my redone 24 ;_; (The white flashing you might see is me trying to bypass that YouTube nonsense, if it even helps lol)

Anyway, here I’m showing off the Synchro chants from Duel Links being added back for Aki and Yusei; I did tweak Aki’s lines as she’s summoning Dark Verdure to more properly explain its effect, taking some dialogue from 61 that I vocal-isolated (I also swapped her “You want combos? Watch!” line for an “It’s my turn–I draw!” line from 22, and subsequently combined Tanner’s “This isn’t good” with his “Yusei better think of something fast” line from 26 to wipe out his “Here comes the combo she was talking about” line), and I also threw in Akiza’s “Black Binding Bloom” and “Black Rose Flare” from Duel Links as I had her command Black Rose Dragon to attack like in the JP script. Leo doesn’t talk as Junk Warrior’s powered up (I added back some SFX I left out my first go-round), then yeah, Yusei brings out Stardust.

Currently polishing up the part where Aki puts her mask back on, so stay tuned; let me know what you think! Looking forward to using yugidmx5’s newest Hopeless Battle rip~

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 24 (REDO) WIP #1: A Rose by Any Other Tentacle

So, YouTube has apparently gotten stingier with my WIP videos, and is now retroactively blocking some of the earlier ones I posted, so it was a pain to even get this much from my newer 5D’s 24 WIP through… I might decide to show some off on Google Drive instead, going forward, if it ends up being too big a hassle.

So, this is my newly revised dub-uncut attempt with 24; I stitched together an explanation for Ivy Shackles to take out her fluffy “greenhouse” comment and make more sense than “under Rose Tentacles’s control,” and I pulled from dialogue I vocal-isolated from 16 and some newly isolated audio from 61 in her duel with Misty, which hopefully sounds good. I took Akiza’s “It’s your turn” at the end of her turn from 22 and later in 24 to wipe her “it’ll take more than that to stop me” line. I did more effect explanation stitching later, including to fix Yusei’s “damage for each of Rose Tentacles’s ATK points” gaffe with Junk Barrage and have Akiza explain Copy Plant’s and Dark Verdure’s effects. I’ll see if I can post those…

Let me know what you think! Currently revised up to about the commercial break, and it shouldn’t be too intensive since 24 was really when I started adding back SFX well and getting into my groove, but adding back in the Synchro chants and using a newer Hopeless Battle rip should be neat.

(5D’s Dub-Uncut Masterpost)

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 23 REDO - WIP #2: Mind-Game Kickoff

Howdy, people! I’ve been spending the past few weeks going over what I previously did with episode 23 for this dub-uncut project, readjusting the process and editing that went into it now that I’ve established a routine after handling 4-5 of these now. I realized I didn’t share too many WIP clips from 23 the first go-around, so I thought I’d show off a little more of this now that it’s nearly the finished product.

Getting into the duel stuff now (see WIP #1 here), this second WIP has a bit more editing to it. For starters, adding back some SFX that was quiet in the BGM-less mix, with the Japanese audio as usable. Dialogue-wise, Akiza’s “[And] I place…” line had “And” replacing “Next” because I wanted to trim out the SFX from the dub’s DEF counter reveal, I added Yusei’s “Hyper Sonic Slash!!” from Duel Links, then I stitched together Aki explaining Cursed Ivy to move “I bring my Wall of Ivy back!” a bit later and cut out her extra banter lines (here, “In case you can’t tell, I’ve got a green thumb”), and then I fixed a dumb dub error where Akiza tries to imply that Wall of Ivy (a Monster) powered up Cursed Ivy (a Trap). 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ (I may try to make her consistent with “Wall of Ivy” over “Ivy Wall” since it’s bugging me lol.) Then, some spacing-out for Yusei’s thoughts, and a recycled line from 22 to end Akiza’s turn!

Check out this brief revision video I did after it was suggested I try to stitch together a line to clear out some more of Akiza’s fluff; I stitched together an explanation for Cursed Ivy so I could clear out her “remember when I did this” line. Think this came together decently, especially once I added back the SFX; thankfully, I found the right SFX for the vines from episode 24 as Black Rose attacked lol. Akiza’s voice sounds a bit echoey at the beginning of her “now I can equip” line because that part’s taken from 24 once she has her mask back on; I tried to apply an effect to reduce the echo via messing with a filter, but seems I couldn’t do too much, but it’s the only near-usable line I could find where she mentions equipping, so. This’ll likely be in the final product!

Have another WIP video coming (which was split in two to get past YouTube and its copyright shenanigans), so stay tuned; that’ll show off what should be the final version of the Thorn Whips scene with the ending helped a bit thanks to Duel Links’s audio~

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 23 REDO - WIP #1: Pre-Duel Jitters

Howdy, people! So, I’ve been spending the past week or two going over what I previously did with episode 23 for this dub-uncut project, readjusting the process and editing that went into it now that I’ve established a routine after handling 4-5 of these now. I realized I didn’t share too many WIP clips from 23 the first go-around, so I thought I’d show off a little more of this now that it’s nearly the finished product.

Here, there was more minimal editing involved; I recycled Luna’s lines from earlier and reverb’d them for the flashback, spaced out Yusei’s thoughts to match JP Yusei’s timing (and reordered a line or two to match JP Yusei), and shortened Sayer’s line to Aki because of the added fluff it got for the dub. Probably not as impressive a clip as some of the duel stuff I hope to show off, but hopefully, you’ll still like it!

GLL99's 5D's Dub/Sub Episode Comparisons

So I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but the Wayback Machine happens to have a good backup of my first 5D’s comparison site on 110mb.com and it has my comparisons up to Crow VS Bommer! A later backup happened when I’d posted 58′s but apparently that wasn’t backed up; hopefully all of the links here still work well? I’ll check them sometime tomorrow to be sure, lol.

Note that obviously my revamped 1-21 comparisons that were up on my most recent site many of you may have seen won’t look like that here but hey, it’s something!

~~still working on finding a good cheap webhost and coming up with a catchy GX/5D’s-oriented site name don’t mind me~~

5D's Episode #22... Uncut?! (Reedited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST)

A Disclosed Past - The Duel Profiler VS the Black Rose Witch

Everybody ~~who’s still following or curious about this project~~ listen!

Phew, managed to get this guy all nice and done! In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed). Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.
Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!
Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1 WIP #2 WIP #3

So, this was another interesting one to work with–I think overall this episode’s dub definitely benefits from having the Japanese music at *all*, but getting the dialogue a bit more in line with the Japanese script was the more "fun” task here. A few parts were essentially done by just throwing in the Japanese version’s dialogue-less audio to eliminate some of the extra fluff, and others were more about rearranging or recycling certain lines (some from 23 or 24 when I needed something for Aki) to eliminate some more fluff or make my matching the JP script flow better. I also fixed an error that bugged me from Tanner about the Black Rose being down to her last few “ATK” points; I ran a line of his from episode 7 through PhonicMind.com to remove the music and splice in “Life” there (I actually did that with much of the second half of that ep so I’ll probably try to do the JP OST thing there too~) For the bits that I felt were just too far edited by 4Kids that I couldn’t do much with them, I thought I’d slip in subs for the Japanese version of the scenes so you get the original context in there; that’ll just be for this hardsub, as you’ll have softsubs to work with when I post this for download over on NAC. You can see it in action in this preview here. Also going ahead and translating the “Today’s Best Card” and title cards along with the OP/EN going forward, lol.

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