>Winter Sale Edition
Fixed :)
Games on sale:
>https://store.steampowered.com/search?category1=998&specials=1
>https://itch.io/games/on-sale
>https://www.gog.com/en/games?discounted=true
>https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?filter=onsale&drm=download
Linux games on sale:
>https://store.steampowered.com/search?category1=998&os=linux&specials=1
>https://itch.io/games/on-sale/platform-linux
>https://www.gog.com/en/games?systems=linux&discounted=true
>https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?filter=onsale&platform=linux&drm=download

>>549262130 →
Proton 9 seems to offer the best performance but the lod issue is still there regardless. It's strange that this game is rated 'gold' btw.
Proton 10 and/or Experimental both support NTSync but at least on my machine the experience feels like I'm rubber banding in terms of input lag.
Proton 9 is Fsync.
My launch options
>LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/\$LIB/libgamemode.so.0" gamemoderun %command% --lua-heap-mb-size 2048
LD_PRELOAD is for gamemode, it displays some warnings on my machine but if the variable bothers you you could just erase it it's nothing important.
Not sure what has happened, I always thought that Proton 10+ was supposed to be so great but it clearly isn't at least in my case. I have some other games in which older versions feel way better but that's a new post for another time perhaps.

You should add these to the OP. Relying on zoomer launchers and some r-eddit tier hearsay is pretty sad because all you need to do is to read the initial documentation from these github pages and things will become much clearer in terms of what to do and what could actually be wrong:
>https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
>https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
>https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi
>https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
>https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d

>>550792448
>zoomer launchers le bad
>posts a literal uwu-launcher

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Finished the game. Saved too many clips so they're encoding. Maybe I'll post a few.
Minor spoiler for effect of end-game weapon.

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Oops, lol

>>550791929
To add, just played bit more Darktide and I'm not really sure if Proton 9 is any better. Maybe it is. Game just feels like it's syncing really badly at times. eg. frame pacing is off even if it has locked framerate.
It was already bad in Windows of course.
Vermintide 2 is butter smooth on the other hand.

>>550795436
it auto updates proton-ge when you launch something, I don't care about the name lol

>>550797586
It doesn't update anything you dumbass. Where do you get that from? Do you even understand what umu-run is doing in the first place?

>>550798959
I get it from using it and yeah I understand it, look up PROTONPATH=GE-Proton

>>550799127
Fuck off ESL pajeet.

uh-oh melty

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Anyone know how to get hardware acclerated sound working on Halo CE through wine? Putting the eax and dsoal dll's into the game folder alone wasn't sufficient.

>>550812236
Generally you need to tell wine to load .dlls, since in most cases it doesn't do it by default, unlike windows. WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dllname=n,b" and such, where dllname is filename without .dll extension, or use launcher-specific gui options.

>>550813141
>Generally you need to tell wine to load .dlls
Even those that are in the game folder?
I also tried umu-launcher but the sound quality was really low.

>>550813285
>>550813141
>>550812236
Alright, I got hardware acceleration working by installing dsound using winetricks. This unfortunately makes Halo unable to start if I set umu to use my default wineprefix though, which is a shame because Halo otherwise runs a LOT better through umu.

>>550812236
I followed this a while back to get environmental sound working in another game, maybe it'll work for halo too
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009318009

>>550813285
Yes, unless something else is already doing the override for the same .dll, wine will not load it by default.

>>550814775
I got environmental sound working in wine by installing dsound through winetricks. The baseline sound quality with umu on the other hand is still really poor.

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>>550815395
>>550814567
Here's the sound quality of Halo through umu:
https://vocaroo.com/19UhtYXXlO2z
And here's the sound quality of Halo through wine:
https://vocaroo.com/16eP1Vfj9xsx

It sounds awful in umu, but super clear in wine. Any idea what to do about the sound in umu?

how well does modding beth work on linux

I decided to ditch umu and just install dxvk for wine. Now I get both EAX as well as super good framerates......except Halo no longer works in fullscreen and I have to run it in a window. I guess I'll try Bottles.

>>550820631
Bottles has successfully launched Halo in fullscreen with dxvk.....ON THE WRONG MONITOR.

>>550821813
#JustWaylandThings

>>550821813
EAX doesn't even work on Bottles btw despite installing dsound.

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I seriously don't know what the fuck dxvk's problem is with my primary monitor. Halo works on my secondary monitor but not my primary monitor. I disabled my secondary monitor entirely yet Halo still doesn't work in fullscreen on my primary monitor. I disabled HDR, disabled Adaptive Sync, and lowered the refresh rate, and Halo still doesn't output any picture on my primary monitor. What kind of fucking retarded shit its this?

>>550804137
blood?

Alright so basically:
>Fedora
>Wayland
>NVIDIA driver
>Have multiple monitors
>Playing some good old Halo CE (2003 PC port) through Wine
>WineD3D is giving mediocre framerates on a 3060 Ti even though this is nearly a 25yo game
>Install DXVK for Wine
>Halo's framerate is now amazing....on my secondary monitor
>The game has sound and everything, but no picture if it's fullscreen on my primary monitor
>Game works in windowed mode, or on my secondary monitor
>Disabling secondary monitor entirely still produces the black screen on primary monitor
>Disabling HDR, Adaptive Sync, etc on primary monitor still produces the black screen
Is the solution to pull out my old RX 480 and sell this NVIDIAshit?

>>550824837
>>550821915
I switched to X11 and this shit still doesn't work in fullscreen. This can't be a Wayland issue; this is either a DXVK issue, a Wine issue, or an NVIDIA issue.

>>550825229
Absolutely NVIDIA issue, especial with their direct scanout code path. I even noticed similar issue on some twitch stream where streamer was streaming expedition 33 and framerate during cut-scenes was bad but when volume indicator pop-up kicked in frame-rate became stable lol.
I guess Jensen wasn't lying when he told that AI is now used to write GPU drivers

>>550825976
I forgot to mention that he was streaming on Windows

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I fixed Halo with this, fuck yeah

>>550825976
I know the Nouveau driver has worse performance, but does it at least have better compatibility?

>add Halo as non-Steam game
>works perfectly in full-screen on NVIDIA
>can even use protontricks to install dsound on it for EAX
Why do people shill Lutris and Heroic and Faugus and Bottles and other bloat frontends so hard?

Saw somewhere that you can very quickly disable/enable SMT on linux. It's not something I'd do globally but on a game by game basis it could be helpful considering the CPU I currently have.
Is there any way I could do it by just adding an argument to steam launch options maybe? Or just a quick toggle?

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Went to bed with webms still encoding, and now I might as well post them because it's that time of day when there's too much glare on my monitor to play any games. (My PC is temporarily not in its normal location. Otherwise there would be no window behind it.)
Anyway, check out the game's camera trying to fucking kill me as usual.
What were they THINKING?!

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>wall jumping to go down
Truly innovative gameplay.

>>550833258
Steam doesn't have any linux-related GUI options, unlike a proper launcher/wine frontend.

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What the fuck is her problem?
...Well okay, it's actually the prince's fault for having one job and not doing it. All he had to do was put the dagger in the thingy, but he stopped to wonder if she's a bitch and then it was too late.

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Not shown: she died :'(.
Anyway, this penultimate fight is weird because you get the dagger back but you still have the sword that disintegrates enemies on contact. So you can't actually get sand except by fucking around until the enemies knock accidentally each other down, or possibly by doing a parry with dagger riposte but that might not be possible on this enemy. I'm not even sure if being able to get sand in this fight is intended. It certainly isn't very helpful, because the next fight after this is the final boss fight in which the dagger starts full anyway.

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Pointless but I almost killed myself doing it anyway.
Nice flip.
>>550838229
>knock accidentally each other down
Oops. Not ESL, just went back to add a word and put the cursor on the wrong space.

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I like how the sick and elderly bad guy just shows up thinking he won't get absolutely wrecked by the young guy who can run on walls, just defeated 9000 monsters, and is having a very bad day.

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He finally does his one job.
Some of the pre-rendered cutscenes in this game look a bit uncanny-valley or otherwise very dated, but this one is pretty good.
And something I didn't notice until after recording: The facial expression on the bad guy here (bottom left 0:04) is amazing. He's so fucking mad, lmao

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The final fight is a bit more annoying than I remember. The dude blocks or counters almost every attack, and I was impatient and took a lot of hits myself. I probably should have used the haste power (>>550076413 →) because there's no other use for the white things on the sand meter, but if I remember correctly, it would (at best) work for one phase of this multiple-phase fight. I did try slowing down time (not shown) and it didn't help me much (which is why I almost never use it; see >>550163831 →).

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Parrying this guy is not as effective as I thought it would be. Trying to hit him with the dagger might be useless as well. I wanted to know what happens if he takes a hit from the dagger (which would freeze other enemies), but he always blocked it.

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Either RNG is a fickle bitch or the guy is coded to stop blocking attacks at some point. Or maybe his ability to block attacks is decreased as he takes damage and so the first few hits are the hardest to get. I'm never sure if I'm using the right strategy against this guy. Too lazy to look at a walkthrough now that I already won.
There are a few phases of this, but they all go the same way.

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Get wrecked.

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>tfw your future girlfriend doesn't remember the future

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>>550840539
lol

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The end-credits song isn't that great, but this was the first game in which I'd ever heard music with lyrics (disregarding stuff like DK Rap), so it kinda blew my mind when I first played it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDEwksdDoI [Embed]

is there any way to fix alt-tabbing in new vegas?

>>550845465
yes

>>550846013
could you enlighten me on how to do it?

>>550840721
I thought he was going to stab her

>>550845465
>>550846270
gamescope will usually fix issues like that

>>550846752
lmao

Ganoo slash linux

Newfag here. I want to move on to Linux since W11 is trash. Which distro should I move to? My current computers got NVidia gpus (4070 on desktop and 4060 on laptop). I rarely touch new games, and mostly play Elden Ring, Fallout 2, and Morrowind.

>>550863112
CachyOS

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No more gas for Protoss dorks.

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As usual, I think I took too long on this mission. Basically steamrolled the enemy once I decided to move, despite having a pretty small army. The computer player is held back massively in the campaign missions, at least for the first campaign, because I tried a custom map game against the computer and it was much harder.

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Uh oh...

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My base was actually defended well enough that the end of this mission didn't have the dramatic effect that I remember.

>>550863112
Anything goes really. Distros are just packaging layouts and scripts.
Most people who advocate this and that distro are retarded techlets.

>>550845465
If gamescope doesn't work - it doesn't work with Tarkov for example (and it keeps crashing often when alt-tabbing etc)- one trick is to start up the problematic game in a window and then use Borderless Fullscreen.

>>550867483
Technically true, but not true in practice. The choice of distro is very important for a beginner.

>>550872149
If I go with Mint or Ubuntu, do I really miss out a lot?

>>550863112
Ultramarine linux

>>550845465
Do you use mods for it? I think there was one called onetweak, could be something better now.

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This wasn't part of my plan.

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Oh well. It worked out. Can't really complain about a good opportunity to take out a big-dick unit before it has a chance to do big-dick damage to something worth shooting. It had no back-up so it just got wrecked.
Assigning the hotkey to the ComSat station is pretty important for this mission if you don't want to build a science vessel, because the enemy has a bunch of ghosts. They haven't tried to nuke me yet, but I'm pretty sure they did so in a previous play-through. Maybe my spider mines prevented it.

>>550845465
https://performance.moddinglinked.com/falloutnv.html#FlipModel

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This game has sovl but the path finding is really a disgrace.

>had problems working with a stupidly large video
>knew it was just that it was too huge but ran some y-cruncher anyway and I just snipped the part I wanted out with ffmpeg copy
>mismatches and errors on various tests despite doing hours of testing on the same settings previously
>try a bunch of stuff, end up reseating the RAM at one point, bump up tRC by 2 was riding 30ns on this micron e
>one of those things seems to have fixed it was probably reseating since I moved the PC recently
So how has everyone's weekend been? I am hoping to get some gaming in this evening!

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Well, time to make a new army with all that money that built up while I was micro-managing my dead army.
I hope this offends someone who's good at RTS.

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Thought I'd see if I could get the original baldur's gate (non-EE) to run on linux
Turns out in order for the game to actually run at full speed you need to disable CSMT, otherwise the game gets slower and slower over time to the point that it's unplayable
Apparently trying to do that in wine 10 just crashes the game, but wine 9 seems to work fine

>>550889596
>CSMT
What's that? A search for "CSMT" just brought up a bunch of obviously unrelated shit.

>>550889596
there's gemrb, but it might be a bit different than original.

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>starved for gas
>finally find resources north of the starting area after having walked my army past it without seeing it
>start a second base and put mines all around it
>blow up a missile turret with my battle cruiser because unused energy is wasted energy
>a few minutes later, an army of ghosts (and nothing but ghosts) try to storm my second base
>not even cloaked
This screenshot is after at least four of them got blown up by spider mines and vultures, and I think at least a couple more came after these three.

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And it was all to lock down my battle cruiser. The very last one got him before dying.
They were really butthurt about that turret.

>>550890031
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#CSMT
It has to do with threading for wined3d, and has been enabled by default for a while now
Disabling it is considered unsupported, but certain old software still seems to need it

>>550876540
Not any of those other anons, but no. Both Mint and Ubuntu are great starter distros.

>>550899498
There are no girls on 4chan.
But when it comes to getting a girlfriend, I recommend just hiding your power level and not mentioning gaming or computers or anything girls don't care about, until she's too invested in the relationship to go "eww, you have interests?" and ghost you.
I do know you're just shitposting but I also know you're single so there's my two cents.

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>>550886414
>the path finding
Dragoons and goliaths are the worst offenders. The bad pathfinding and clunky controls are basically a feature that make broodwar still popular as a competitive game, since it raise the skill ceiling.

>>550892895
IIRC old infinity engine games required fanmade ddraw fix to work on windows without glitches, idk if it fixes problems on wine. Don't remember what exactly I was using last time I've played Planescape on old PC, pcgaming wiki links this forum
https://www.shsforums.net/topic/48732-ddraw-fix-for-slowdownsstuttering/

https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS/pull/1039 cachyos added workaround for trash nvidia driver, allowing screen recorders to record without making the gpu get downclocked to a lower power state

>>550902068
Since when were girls bothered by you using Linux and FOSS?

>>550913139
Well, they're not. But I wouldn't use "I use Arch btw" as a pick-up line. I'd say I use Mint.

Playing khazan and I have nothing special to report, zero complaints.

>>550845465
Use Wine Wayland driver, it doesn't support focus loss and minimize lol

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I'm kind of surprised this game doesn't recommend going over 120 fps for stability, there's also the issue of shader compilation during boss fights which seems to be an issue on all platforms.

If I want to move to Linux permanently, am I better off with a 9070xt than a 5070Ti? I want the 5070Ti for path tracing in CP2077, but it is only one game. If the 5070Ti is going to be a bigger headache, I feel like I should just get the 9070xt.

>>550931527
AMD ray tracing is pretty good now, so get the 9070xt since NVIDIA is just in general worse on Linux.

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Wtf Bethesda was woke already in 1996? This is unacceptable

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This game is amazing. Even more amazing now that it is free software.

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I don't think this is a authetic historic representation of events occured during Pavlov's house defense.

>>550935238
Will RT on AmD linux be as good as nvidia RT on linux after valve optimizes it?

>>550959302
Absolutely no way

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What are some good gaming notebooks with ONLY AMD CPU and GPUs?

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Holy fuck you were alive?
>>550959302
No, AMD RT is inferior on hardware level compared to NVIDIA.

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Ouch, sorry comrade
>>550962230
Anything with AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ 395 I guess

>>550962230
>good gaming notebooks
I don't want to sound too negative, but this is an oxymoron. You either have a gaming laptop, or a good laptop. Trying to get both quality and gaming on a laptop is just not feasible.

>>550964049
It's okay. Then I'm good with just a gaming laptop, I don't play any AAA shovelware anyway. Any AMD only recommendations ones?

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what the fuck was that?
>>550964305
No particular models. Just buys something on AMD APUs. Laptops with discrete GPUs are trash and most of them are NVIDIA.

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Yeah, war crimes!

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Guess I just was unlucky

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While his friends were dying he was pretending to be on overwatch

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lol

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NOOO!
Hitler spent so many reichsmarks on these!

>>550963296
Yeah but nvidia is worse on linux on software level.

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Don't mind me
>>550971979
That might change in the future

I know next to nothing about linux, but I've been getting sick and tired of my windows pc getting slow as shit lately.
I've always been told that gaming on linux is nigh impossible, but is that really the case and is it worth jumping ship to an OS that isn't bloated to fuck and back with spyware and what not.
Like fuck me sure 16GB of DDR4 isn't a lot of ram for some super autist space command supercomputer, but it should be more than enough to run UE4 games and such, yet windows hogs like half of it for itself.

No, I am not upgrading my ancient shitbox pc with new hardware, I expect software devs to optimise their jeet code.
I just want to play my shit in peace.

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>>550978556
>I've always been told that gaming on linux is nigh impossible
Used to be the case, but since Proton (compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux) + DXVK (translates DirectX to Vulkan) this is no longer the case. Linux can really run about any game these days without problems. Only thing that won't work are multiplayer games with kernel level anticheat. And yes, niche games should work fine as well.
If you have an AMD card you will also get access to the open source AMD drivers on Linux, which are considered superior to the Windows drivers.

>is it worth jumping ship to an OS that isn't bloated to fuck and back with spyware and what not.
Of course it's worth it. Switching to Linux will have a learning curve. You have probably used Windows your entire life like most people on this planet. Just be prepared to learn and accept Linux will do many things differently to Windows.

Let me give you an example: updating. One of the biggest things Windows users always complain about are forced updates. On Linux you decide when/if you want to update. No dogshit popups that can't be disabled, no forced restarts, no extra bloat added to your system without your consent. When you use Linux your computer belongs to you and not to some corporation that wants to harvest all your data.

Put some effort in to learn how to use Linux and you will be free from Microsoft forever. No more LTSC cope, no more trying to stay on older versions like some people are still on 7. You'll be free forever.
Just imagine how that will feel.

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POBEDA!!!

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>game recap in the credits
SOVL

>>550979871
fucking jannies
Rapeape lost, Leto won
deal with it

>>550978556
>nigh impossible
If you play any of the following it is impossible: PUBG, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Battlefield, League of Legends (and other riot slop), Escape from Tarkov, Apex Legends, etc (look up areweanticheatyet for more). Otherwise, it's click and play via steam if you have your library, or via lutris with minimal configuration if you are a file sharing enjoyer.

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Oh cool, my GitHub scraper is still working.
Time to play some Blake Stone for an hour and then get bored like I do every time there's a new release of its source port.

>>550998215
>1993
I kneel

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It uses Vulkan now. The previous release (1.2.16) was OpenGL.
The brutal death animations are possibly the best part of this game, to be honest.

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>start a new level
>immediately get ambushed
also this secret level has enemies hidded in statues and trees when you blow them up with explosives

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Done with this one on serious difficulty, can you beat my high score?
Also
>gametime shows 7h
>steam time is at 13h
yep....

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Just kidding about Blake Stone. I went back to finish the Terran campaign in StarCraft instead.

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lol