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She/Her. Goth games academic. Free 🇵🇸 Creative Director of @wereyoufollowed , making a genre-defining dark fantasy romance game with monsters

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Joined October 2017

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I have some new followers so I guess it's time for the obligatory: I'm a feminist Trans rights are human rights Black lives matter Abortion is healthcare Global warming is a thing Anti-vaxxers are actively dangerous Billionaires are evil. All of them. Fuck capitalism

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Overheard after helping elderly ladies find their stop: Lady: "See. I told you to ask the goth girl. Goth girls are always nice."

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My nephew came from a domestic violence situation. He watched Ninja because Ninja's behaviour reflected the behaviour of his abusive father, which was normal for him. Think on that for a while.

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I think one of the greatest takeaways from Cyberpunk's release is actually something I teach my students; the audience you cater to is the audience that responds to you.

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@ameir_tyshaun42 @NotPlayygrl Because if she didn't, and something happened to her, she would be asked "How could she be so reckless and careless? How could she not have taken precautions?" But if she takes precautions, she's a bitch. If she refuses to date men, it's "Not all men, give them a chance."

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Our nephew's emotional and mental health improved dramatically when we banned Ninja from his life.

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@killersumobunny It's only 'romantic' to people because he didn't fucking kill her. It's like there's 2 outcomes. 'Omg so sweet' or 'Wow how could she have been so reckless?'

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But once we banned Ninja, he calmed down. He was able to rationalise his losses. He watched YouTubers we recommended (because they were calm and taught people). And you know what? That's when he got better at the game.

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Now when he loses Fortnite he sits down for a solid minute and thinks 'Could I have won?' and if the answer is 'No', he shrugs and goes back to playing. If the answer is 'Yes', then he will write down what he should have done so he can remember it.

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My nephew played Fortnite. Whenever he lost, he would scream that the other player was a hacker, and refused to hear otherwise. I and his uncle are lifelong gamers. When we tried to explain that he needed to get better, he grew so angry with us that he began to hit us.

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Let me ask this. Why doesn't having a flawless rental history for 7+ years qualify me for a home loan where the repayments are equal to the rent I am currently paying?

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When we tried to explain that he was 7 and didn't necessarily have the physical response time as someone else, he would simply scream that we were calling him 'bad' and run away.

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He would get so angry at the very idea that he lost that it was impossible for him to get better. He would throw his Switch. He would punch things. He would hit his brother. He was a child who had no nuanced understanding of his rage.

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When we found out that he watched Ninja, my partner and I IMMEDIATELY banned him from watching Ninja ever again. He threw a giant tantrum and hated us and refused to listen to us. He said Ninja was the 'best gamer ever'.

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Don't let Scott Morrison take credit for Australians flattening the curve. We were self-isolating and working from home when he told us to go to the fucking football.

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When we tried to explain that he was playing on a Switch and Ninja on a keyboard and mouse so Ninja would have different response times, he would tell us we were 'stupid idiots who didn't know what we were talking about'.

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Gendered violence is a uniquely bullshit circumstance in which 'innocent until proven guilty' somehow aligns with 'the victim's fault until they provide a 15000-word thesis in triplicate about how they tried to not be a victim'.

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Yeah, I'm not gonna 'think of the multi millionaire' during this time.

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If you cater to the toxicity of your audience, and alienate anything empathetic or wholesome, you really shouldn't be surprised when the toxicity is all you are greeted with.

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My heart absolutely, absolutely breaks for the devs and QA people that poured their heart and soul into Cyberpunk for nearly a decade, perhaps longer. But for the executive decision-makers... I have nothing but a shrug.

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CDPR as quite happy to alienate people who had empathy towards transgender people, people of colour, people who support workers rights, etc. They were happy to be performative in their inclusivity or their support.

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So when Cyberpunk crashed and burned in various ways in release, the people that would have empathetically supported them had already been driven away. They hadn't bought the game. What were they left with? Well.

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They were happy to cater to the edgelord gamers whose toxicity flourished in response to their actions, or happily dismissed and ignored the problematic representations and workplace environment.

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Oh, and 4) him being "too young" isn't the be all and end all. If you think 15 year olds are any less impressionable than a 7 year old... The flaming vitriol I have already received doesn't come from 7 year olds. Let's say that much.

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So I muted this ages ago but let me clarify a few common questions. 1)I am in no way calling Ninja an abuser, but his behaviours are definitely some of the same that occur during the abuse our nephew witnessed.

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3) "Why are you letting him play Fortnite?" Firstly he had been playing for a very long time before he came to our house and stopping him would be unfair. Second, not our child. Third, nothing wrong with Fortnite.

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5) He's still got a lot of trauma to work through, and he's not 'miraculously better'. This was just 1 relevant incident of a direct influence that we were able to identify and help his mother (who was escaping a man who tried to kill her), improve.

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2) "He shouldn't be watching Ninja" that is why we banned him? Also, YouTube was his main source of exposure, and the age rating of Twitch meant nothing to his at home situation.

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Because of the reinforcement of his father he had already absorbed these behaviours and his aspiration to "Be Ninja" made it seem okay for him.

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I'm a CEO. I have not been paid a cent for the game so far. My salary is actually the buffer sacrifice for the production. I am being told I am WEIRD for this. I am being told not wanting to be paid more than my staff is WEIRD. This shit is INGRAINED.

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CEOs were paid, on average, about 21 times as much as a typical worker in 1965 today, they’re compensated over 344 times as much - over 1000% more than they used to be they take over 1000% more than was formerly normal and acceptable to the average worker sit with that

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@australian IF PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD BREAD AND MILK THE SOLUTION IS NOT DEBT

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@mixeduppasha Women are required to protect themselves from potentially dangerous men, but do so in a way that is inoffensive to every other man, without a single way to know the difference between them until it is too late.

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@necrodilus Hi, let me break this down a little bit for you, because legal language is very intimidating and this is not what you think it is. Bear with me, this will be a little long Firstly, all of this is designed to protect Twitter's butt, NOT to let them steal from you or other artists

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@InternetHippo This, along with the line "Why would I be bothered reading something a human couldn't be bothered writing?" Fucking poetry.

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So. Uh. I'm a CEO now? My studio officially legally exists? I'm... I'm a game studio director? It's... real? I guess I go apply for funds now...

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@itsModelbaby Yes, please tell me, a postgraduate academic specialising in media, communication, and games, how 'confirmation bias' works, and continue to assume that I am behaving as though my nephew is the only child in existence.

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@AliciaR32578 Considering most terminations later in pregnancy are because of medical complications this is fundamentally bullshit.

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@mixeduppasha What... is she meant to do with his number plate? It's a publicly available identifier. I am not sure how it works over there, but it's not actually legal to STOP someone from taking a photo of your license plate here.

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There's an unexpected reception to my half-formed food-coma thoughts. Hm.

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@Johannes_Knop I'm sorry. His Bad Take just hurt me so badly knowing that a majority of his audience is young and male.

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@A_low96 @Naughty_Dog You should tell Pedro Pascal this yourself. Personally. To his face.

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@MLKChefLean A quick google will tell you most of these won't work.

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@Kyuubre @KennyAlphaOmega @Kotaku "They" being the corporate leaders who are likely now going to make their animators work overtime for their shitty decisions.

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What the fuck is happening

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@cherylbenson @Hind_Gaza She's LITERALLY IN GAZA.

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@BostonGlobe This... this is literally the reason Freedom of Speech exists. The protected ability to protest against the actions of a governing body - especially violent ones - is the PURPOSE of Freedom of Speech.

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@XrayPC It's collectively. All of them. Share 2%

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@CNBCi Shut up.

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"Men show a 35% increase chance of being domestically violent toward their partner if her pay rises above his." Amazing how proper wording changes the entire tone of a fucking headline.

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A pay rise that means a woman earns more than her male partner increases her chance of domestic violence by 35 per cent, ground-breaking Australian research has revealed | @swrighteconomy

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SO IMPORTANT for Australian citizens. There is currently a petition for medicare to cover gender reassignment surgery: Please spread this and sign it if you are an Australian citizen.

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Okay. Time to weed out the weak: I am a feminist. GamerGate was a smokescreen for domestic violence. Transgender people are real people and I won't entertain conversation otherwise. Climate change is happening right now. Legalize marijuana plz. Defend the poor. Eat the rich.

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@PhotoLandry He's demonstrated repeatedly that he, unfortunately, doesn't care.

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@ten_days_a_week Motherfucker babies cost money. Kids cost money. Contraception costs money. You literally just pointed out a reason to get a termination.

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@itsModelbaby And that's all we need to know on that.

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@JesseNeon Unfortunately his crowd don't really care.

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I mean with the rent I alone am paying right now, in 30 years I will have paid over five hundred thousand dollars into another person's bank account. Why? Why is this fair? This property sold for $200K in 2007. Meaning I could pay it off in 15 years. Whyyyy. WHYYYY.

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@DrJenGunter My mother was a single mother and a full-time nurse. She threw her abusive husband out not because he abused her, but because he became a danger to myself and my sister. She had no energy to play with us. We never ever doubted her love. This person makes me so angry.

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@Openly Waiting for them to strip Michael Phelps of all of his medals because his body didn't produce lactic acid like other men and therefore gave him a physiological advantage over other men. Or are we accepting that this is a racist, misogynistic double standard finally?

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@Sekushiwolf @nuII_dog @olivebrinker It is a tool of oppression to cherrypick overwrought emotions of the oppressed to justify continued oppression.

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@necrodilus This section does not contain the words 'resell' or 'for profit'. This means that these two things CANNOT occur. But what you are granting them is the rights to crop your image in the hideous display format, change the language of your tweets to another language -

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@XrayPC It is on top of their wages. It is a bonus for the work they put in. It's more than 0 which is what they are currently getting.

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@necrodilus This section is the core takeaway. It states, in no uncertain terms, that you retain the rights and ownership fo your content, words, opinions, art etc etc. It means that everything that follows is not designed to take that from you.

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Why does the lender have to make a fuckton of money off this? Why is there not some actual 'care about the people' arm of the government that tenders a trade between a property owner and a property purchaser without an assload of profit off of it?

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@BestBoyBosco how... how many buff women in armour do you see, out of curiosity?

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@XrayPC @teIIIIy Cool. So you think it should be 10%. Excellent. Good idea.

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Game devs and industry hiring folk. What are some of the things you WISH education prepared students for (taking that they are getting tertiary education as a given of course) either at all or better? I would appreciate it if the game devs following me could retweet this.

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@NewbieDontShoot Do you... have kids?

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@SierraWhiskey9 You know Last of Us isn't Joel's story, right? Like, Naughty Dog clearly and repeatedly said it's Ellie's story, Joel's just a vehicle for it to happen.

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@GraphCrimes ... At least 3 of these are just milk.

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@Brink_Thinker "Your right to privacy is revoked the moment you behave in a way I don't like" is a hell of a message to send your kid.

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@Public_Citizen The funniest thing about people saying America can't afford Medicare for All is that it would actually save America billions of dollars. It's mind-blowing how the fallacies have become so embedded in the cultural narrative.

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@joh6nn @EvelynClear @LoserMcTool Lacking engagement lets them exist in an echo chamber. The responses are not for him. They are for all the women and girls who see that tweet and think it is true. It is not disagreement. It is solidarity.

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@StepheneptHill1 @omarelakkad Saudi Arabia and the UN have both facilitated negotiations to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Israel has declined each time.

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@emrazz Not me. But my partner commands respect through being good at the games he plays. He prohibited people that play with him from saying shit like "rape" and when people got shitty, he always responds with "notice how many women play with me vs you, mate." Then kicks them.

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@DualPetalSage If you think that, then women just don't feel safe enough around you to tell their stories. Simple as that.

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@Fruckley @tonycoculuzzi @SirTapTap Victims are not responsible for protecting their abusers.

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Making games is hard.

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@AnandWrites Grammatical correctness as a form of communicative authority is a means of discrediting the voices of people who have not been able to access that education and is a tool of classism. Coming from a masters in media comms.

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@osamadorias And this was in their discord meme channel haha

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@BadMedicalTakes You know the thing that fucks with me the most about this? The hymen retracts as you grow and usually just isn't there when you're in your mid-teens. The reason the hymen myths and virginal blood shit exists is because grown men were marrying children.

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@Johannes_Knop Normalising that sort of behaviour has a definitive effect. It plays upon toxicity in gamer cultures as well as huge elements of toxic masculinity that get so strongly reinforced in children. The endorphine hit of play plus the stimulation of the game is hard to get past.

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@jfruh @catacalypto I literally give 5 star ratings automatically to delivery people because I never know when someone is having a bad day and unless they piff my food at the door, it's good.

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Apparently, I need to specify this; I mean in lieu of a $100K deposit.

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I want to add to this excellent drop that this relates to a concept called 'hypermasculinity', which is a performative form of toxic masculinity in that any threat to the masculine must be actively sought out and destroyed. Out of fear. Out of f e a r .

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quietly dropping this here today 😌🖕

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@voxael I mean, he was trapped in a house with me for 4 months sooo....

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@necrodilus This is distinct from Terms and Services of companies like Facebook, which expressly states it OWNS THE RIGHTS TO anything you post on it, including your opinion. Meaning it doesn't have to pay jack to you to use OR SELL it.

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@fuckyouiquit Class action lawsuit against damage done to bodies forced to stand for many hours a day. Watch those seats magically appear.

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@EmotionalHedge 1 in 700 people have died of Covid in America...

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@necrodilus show your tweets in a country other than your own, share it worldwide, transmit it to other countries and through other systems - which can come with their associated bylaws.

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@RealGrumpyCat You brought so much joy into so many lives... rest in peace Grumpy Cat.

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@necrodilus This section refers to Twitter's ability to just... talk about itself. So maybe your tweets show up in promotions, or in hashtag followings, or maybe your Tweet shows up in a shareholder meeting. It just means that it is used in a way that makes Twitter look good.

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@CroweDM Do teachers in schools just... not exist?

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@necrodilus This just means that Twitter has said 'Yo, we're not gonna do that. Okay? Okay.' It just means that Twitter doesn't have to pay you if somehow your Tweet is featured in a way that makes them money.

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@cypheroftyr This 100% true. For those interested, here is the study:

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Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable...

Gender inequality and sexist behaviour is prevalent in almost all workplaces and rampant in online environments. Although there is much research dedicated to understanding sexist behaviour, we have...

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@verge The replies to this, as difficult as they are to wade through, are a really important indication of WHY representation is so important, and WHY greater exposure to the wealth of work minorities are doing in games is vital.

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On top of this, there are now Instagram videos from Intellectual Property and Copyright lawyers saying that if someone steals your AI-generated book / art / animation / script, don't bother coming to them, you didn't own it, there's no case to be had. It's happening.

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Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet!

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@necrodilus The really important part of that is, without this clause, let's say a tweet of your art is shown to a shareholder that wants to buy in to Twitter and that might have influenced their decision. You COULD be entitled to a royalty or commission because of that.

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@voxael Please no.

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