As queer gamers we never saw ourselves in the games we played, so we created our own

1 week ago

Curated collection of queer stories celebrates love, identity

Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the queer film Queer, starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, has been lauded for its heartfelt exploration of love, identity, and self-discovery. From Heer and Sumira’s bond that challenges the intricacies of transgender experiences to Adira’s reflection on how parental disconnection shaped her first love, this collection delves deep into the …

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4 weeks ago

Review: A reinvented Daniel Craig burrows into the heart of a lonely expat in ‘Queer’

LA Times

If director Luca Guadagnino has proven anything during his remarkable 2024, it’s that he is the preeminent depicter of erotic desire on-screen. His sexy spring sensation “Challengers” became a phenomenon with its hot-under-the-collar tennis matches, and he’s assembled the same group of collaborators for the surreal and sweaty “Queer,” an adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella written in 1952 …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I’m Really Disturbed at How This Video Game Is Corrupting My Kid

Slate

Slate Plus members get more Care and Feeding every week. Dear Care and Feeding, My son “Terrence” just turned 15 and got a video game as a birthday present, called Crusader Kings III. He then looked puzzled, noted that the character had eight children by three different wives, and said, “Well, he can’t be that gay.” I haven’t heard homophobic …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Hit Chinese video game builds pride, subdues prejudice

China Daily

People watch a gamer try the Black Myth: Wukong game at a shopping mall in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. "It's not excessive to say that I have been expecting a game like this my entire life," said 39-year-old Kang Jianxiong, while manipulating the hero in the Black Myth: Wukong video game to stand on the top of his magic …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Hit Chinese video game builds pride, subdues prejudice

China Daily

People watch a gamer try the Black Myth: Wukong game at a shopping mall in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. "It's not excessive to say that I have been expecting a game like this my entire life," said 39-year-old Kang Jianxiong, while manipulating the hero in the Black Myth: Wukong video game to stand on the top of his magic …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Scientifically Speaking | A new study challenges the notion that video games are harmful to mental health

Hindustan Times

The discussion on the impact of video games on mental well-being has been a hot topic for years, typically driven by concerns that gaming might be harmful. In the past, the supposed link between video games and mental health was built on correlational studies that show some kind of relationship between video gaming and mental health. Researchers like Egami and …

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4 months ago

‘Secret Level’ teaser: Amazon’s anthology brings videogame stories to life for ‘God of War’, ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ and more

The Hindu

Amazon Prime Video is set to make a significant splash in the gaming and entertainment world with its newly announced adult-animated anthology series, Secret Level. Unveiled during the Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live showcase, Secret Level promises to deliver a unique viewing experience by bringing iconic video game universes to life through animated short stories. Secret Level is the latest …

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4 months ago

How a dire shortage of video game consoles helped prove that gaming boosts mental health

LA Times

A run on Nintendo Switches and Sony PlayStations during the pandemic had the unintended consequence of allowing researchers to test whether gaming causes changes in the mental well-being of players. But experiments like these don’t reflect the way people play video games in real life, Egami said. While it’s difficult to interpret the exact size of the effects, they “seem …

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4 months, 1 week ago

‘Love, Death & Robots’ creator Tim Miller to helm animated anthology series set in video game worlds at Amazon

The Hindu

Prime Video is making a move in the adult animation genre with its latest project, Secret Level, an anthology series from Tim Miller, the creator behind Netflix’s acclaimed Love, Death & Robots. The new series, produced in collaboration with Miller’s Blur Studio, aims to fuse the worlds of video games and animation, creating a fresh and innovative viewing experience for …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Screen Share | Queer films snubbed from glory

The Hindu

Now that Pride Month has wrapped up, corporate giants have shed their yassified rainbow exteriors and reverted to their standard-issue selves. So, in the spirit of authenticity, I thought it’d be fitting to recommend some truly unforgettable queer films that seemed to have been forgotten somewhere along the line, on the cusp of glory. It’s the most curious thing how …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I hate the word representation’: Jaydeep Sarkar

The Hindu

Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit in the 90s defined queer. As someone recently told me, the best definition of being queer is ‘when you can be your absolute authentic self without having to fit the prescribed morals of society’. I’m always asked the question: ‘Is your next story a queer story?’ I feel it’s an unfair and unimaginative question. It can …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Pride Month 2024 | Queer artistes on the stories they want to see on-screen

The Hindu

For long, the plea from the LGBTQIA+ community to storytellers has been this: “Let us tell our stories since our lives are largely different from how cis-gender heterosexuals perceive us.” Over the years, queer narratives in Indian cinema have seen significant steps forward; yet, what is considered queer cinema remains limited, focusing only on a few queer identities, whereas the …

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6 months, 1 week ago

‘Queer Rhapsody,’ a new film series coming to five L.A. venues, arrives in a moment of need

LA Times

Martine McDonald, left, May Hong HaDuong and Moi Santos, the core creative team behind the new film series, at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. And to be frank, people during Pride Month don’t necessarily want to be in a theater.” An image from Julia Fuhr Mann’s documentary “Life Is Not a Competition, but I’m Winning.” Along with HaDuong and …

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6 months, 1 week ago

These films changed queer representation forever. We spoke with their earliest champion

LA Times

The start of the 1990s saw an explosion of gay and lesbian films that defied convention. “It marked a moment when filmmakers — at whatever risk — were willing to make films that would galvanize people’s attention to injustice and death,” Rich, 75, tells the Times over Zoom from Paris. “And that’s why they still have power.” Famously, Rich called …

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7 months ago

Mel Stride blames pornography and video games on alarming surge in jobless young men

Daily Mail

Pornography and video games are behind a surge in jobless young men, the work and pensions minister has warned. Mel Stride said that easy access to explicit content and videogames is driving poor mental health among teenage and young adult men. Mel Stride said that easy access to explicit content and videogames is driving poor mental health among teenage and …

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54 years, 11 months ago

The Future of Video Games Is ... Reality TV?

Wired

Over by the pool, a slap fight breaks out. Part satire, part love letter to the indomitable industry of reality TV, the “thirst person shooter,” which is expected to launch later this year, is director Nicole He’s way of exploring the genre in a fun, yet critical way. “I think this is true in general for a lot of ‘women’s …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

New levels in play: The climate crisis enters the videogame world

Hindustan Times

Picture a player two-thirds of the way through Civilization VI, the empire-building strategy videogame. Anno 1800 has a scenario called Eden Burning, in which players must balance industrial progress with the health of the game world’s soil, air and water. Well, in 2019, the United Nations Environment Programme helped launch the Playing for the Planet Alliance, which brings together more …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The gaming industry is aiming for subscribers. Will gamers play along?

BBC

The gaming industry is aiming for subscribers. Meanwhile, each of the major gaming consoles now offer games bundled into a subscription package, such as PlayStation Plus, xBox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch Online. "We've seen this huge transition in the games industry of moving away from the traditional, what I would call 'unit-sales-based' business model, towards an 'engagement-based' model," explains …

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1 year ago

Satirizing American life with Grand Theft Auto VI

Live Mint

The world stopped briefly last week as the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest in one of the most popular video game franchises ever, came into being at last. GTA is anyway an adults-only game, and given we’re constantly bombarded with real life atrocities on social media, it’s harder to clutch pearls over a game when literal dead …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Video Games That Encourage Human Interaction Can Build Better Vibes

Wired

Gamers have long been stigmatized as lonely weirdos. “Whether it’s a town hall meeting for a community or whether it’s a group of gamers getting together in a park, whenever people meet face-to-face, there’s a level of civility, courtesy, and respect that you often see,” says John Hanke, the founder and CEO of Niantic, the developer behind the massively popular …

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1 year ago

Are video games the ‘new comic book movies’ for Hollywood? One producer thinks so

LA Times

Let’s face it, the entertainment industry’s intellectual property obsession isn’t going anywhere. One of the panelists was Roy Lee, founder of Vertigo Entertainment and a guy who knows his way around I.P., having produced “The Lego Movie” and “It,” but also originals such as last year’s horror hit “Barbarian.” He sees the success of video game-based movies such as “Five …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Breaking Boundaries: 7 Directors redefining queer narratives in cinema

Firstpost

Here is a look at the 7 directors who gave us must watch shows and films on the queer community In the realm of cinema, certain directors have played pivotal roles in shaping narratives that amplify the voices of the queer community. From heart-warming real life tales to intense dramas, here’s a list of seven directors whose works have significantly …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The evolution of female sexuality in Bollywood over the years

The Hindu

In the lead up to the release of Siddharth Anand’s Pathaan this year, there was a lot of talk, not of the film per se, but a small 20-second clip that seemed to have sparked anger among some of the political rank and file. Constant evolution in portrayal Over the years, the portrayal of female sexuality on-screen has witnessed a …

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1 year, 1 month ago

I tried a breakup simulator video game. Here’s what it taught me about the myth of ‘moving on’

LA Times

“Thirsty Suitors” is a new video game in which characters attempt to come to terms with their breakups. Jala’s conversations become our own, turning “Thirsty Suitors” into something of a safe space to simulate post-breakup heart-to-hearts, even if the setting is exaggerated. This is not for the game.’” Jala must heal her relationship with her parents in addition to her …

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1 year, 1 month ago

First gay games in Asia kicked off in Hong Kong amid opposition

Op India

Gay Games Hong Kong commenced on 3rd November marking the event’s debut in Asia despite resistance from anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers and human rights campaigners. Politicians and certain conservative groups in Hong Kong have opposed the games and some demonstrators have dubbed them “obscene.” The city was subjected to the National Security Law by Beijing in 2020 following months of anti-government demonstrations. …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Women command 41% share in India’s gaming arena: survey

The Hindu

Breaking the stereotype of online gaming being a male bastion, a pan-India survey has revealed that 41 % of the gamers are women. The Lumikai Gaming Report said that a survey was conducted with 2,317 respondents across different demographics to gain insight into gamer and non-gamer motivations, behaviours, preferences, and monetisation potential. Chairman of India Game Developer Conference, Rajesh Rao …

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1 year, 4 months ago

From “Bottoms” to “Booksmart” and “Fire Island,” queer cinema deserves to be silly and fun again

Salon

Last month, many cinephiles and casual moviegoers reveled in "Barbenheimer," the internet phenomenon that began in anticipation of the simultaneous theatrical release of two major films: Greta Gerwig's "Barbie'' and Cristopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer." In August, audiences have been able to watch the son of the U.S. president and the grandson of the British king start an unlikely romance in Prime …

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1 year, 5 months ago

These are the classic video games you can no longer play (Spoiler: It's most of them)

NPR

These are the classic video games you can no longer play Enlarge this image toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images David McNew/Getty Images When The Sims came out back in the year 2000, it changed the gaming landscape. That fate, sadly, isn't an anomaly — most classic video games can't be played on today's hardware. Salvador calls that period the "silent …

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1 year, 5 months ago

COUNTER CULTURE | The queerness I crave

The Hindu

Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 6 MINS READ I crave queer literature, not just because of affinity, the desire to feel represented, mirrored, ricocheted, though there is that, too. Take the lesbian protagonist in the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Boulder by Eva Baltasar—horny, a cook on a merchant ship off the coast of Chile, domesticated first by lust, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Inside the growing movement to digitize LGBTQ+ stories: ‘We’re reverse-engineering new memories’ of the past

LA Times

On Halloween 1969, a group of ink-soaked queer and trans youth covered the office of the San Francisco Examiner in purple handprints. Cover art of Season 2, Episode 1 of “Periodically Queer” “Periodically Queer” launched in 2022 to explore stories of LGBTQ+ history, like “Friday of the Purple Hand,” through audio documentaries. With approximately 1% to 2% of ONE Archives …

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1 year, 5 months ago

'Be Her Or Be With Her': TV And Movie Characters That Led To People's Queer Awakening

Huff Post

Illustration: Chris McGonigal/HuffPost; Photos: ABC/Getty Images; Disney/Alamy; NBC/Everett Collection Many times, a queer awakening can begin with an on-screen crush. Fran Fine normalized living as your authentic self, and laughing at conformity while also inviting them to take a plate of brisket and join the fun.” ―Kennedy Garza Brown Wilson Cruz as Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez in “My So-Called Life” ABC …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Making queer history immersive for younger audiences

ABC

Retracing the steps of the first Mardi Gras is an immersive retelling of the first Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1978, combining new video interviews and archival footage with a geospatial 3D rendering of the route of the march. The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is often called "Australia's Stonewall" — a reference to the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month | Queer cinema’s shackles in the mainstream

The Hindu

Queer cinema continues to be ‘othered’ into a sub-genre, with a sedate growth in mainstream cinema. “They thought that it was a joke because, in many Telugu films previously, queer ideas were used as jokes,” he says adding that it matters having producers like actor Nani and Prashanti Tipirneni, who prioritise content over earnings. “Whenever I pitch something, they say, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month | The ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, and why it’s time for the industry to let it go

The Hindu

Villanelle from Killing Eve, Lexa from The 100, Rose from Jane the Virgin, Martha from Children’s Hour, Andrew Beckett from Philadelphia, Tara Maclay from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Denise Cloyd from Walking Dead, Oberyn Martell from The Game of Thrones, and Edward Meechum from House of Cards have two things in common— they were queer and now are dead. The …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Male characters in video games have 50 per cent more dialogue than female counterparts

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Researchers have discovered that male …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How Hollywood finally cracked the video game adaptation

The Hindu

Here’s a fun fact: Google The Super Mario Bros. Movie and a small NES-era question block will appear at the top of the page next to the film’s name. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, setting multiple box-office records, including the biggest worldwide opening weekend for an animated film and the highest-grossing film based on …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The games we’re most excited for this summer

LA Times

Prepare to stay indoors this summer. ‘Final Fantasy XVI’ Release date: June 22 Platform: PlayStation 5 The “Final Fantasy” franchise can be overwhelming to the uninitiated, with its multitude of games and spinoffs often providing no obvious point of entry. It’ll get more complex than that — no “Final Fantasy” game is truly simple — but the fantasy epic setup …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Nintendo closed some digital storefronts. Experts say it's bad for video game history

NPR

Nintendo closed some digital storefronts. Experts say it's bad for video game history JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Nintendo is known for a lot of beloved game franchises, like The Legend Of Zelda. She's co-director of the Video Game History Foundation, which aims to archive, celebrate and teach the history of video games. The only way a library can collect and lend …

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1 year, 8 months ago

What makes Tetris ‘the perfect game’? Experts break down an addictive classic

LA Times

The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. “For me, what makes it the perfect game is that it’s a puzzle,” said Pink, who attributes Tetris’ addictive qualities to its simplicity. “It encapsulates a lot to say it’s the perfect video game,” said Tracy Fullerton, a USC professor and the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

‘The Last of Us’ TV adaptation resonates beyond gamers

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — In the HBO series “The Last of Us,” a fungal infection has taken over Earth, rendering the United States an apocalyptic landscape protagonists Joel and Ellie need to traverse. “The Last of Us,” whose first season concluded Sunday, has not only won over gamers with high expectations, but also people who don’t play video games. “No one …

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1 year, 9 months ago

‘The Last of Us’ TV adaptation resonates beyond gamers

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “No one could have anticipated this, this reaction and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

How gaming industry has established itself as the leader of digital entertainment world

Firstpost

Entertainment has always been a critical element in our lives, providing solace, thrill, and respite from the monotony of everyday existence. As the race continues, it has become increasingly evident that one form has risen to the forefront and claimed the throne of digital entertainment – Gaming. Millions of people can now play games on-the-go, making mobile gaming a popular …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘The Last of Us’: Gaming as peak TV

Live Mint

Keep aside for one second the zombie-like creatures desperate to bite chunks out of your skull for lunch. The new HBO show, adapted from the popular action-survival video game from 2013, takes on the ambitious task of fashioning that world and, more pertinently, the experience of it for TV. Playing through a pandemic video game as heart-breaking as this one …

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1 year, 10 months ago

New-age online games affecting children, say experts

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The proliferation of online games with irrational themes among tweens and teens has increased more quickly than in the past, especially during the Covid-19-induced lockdown period, which is having an impact on children' mentality and personality development, according to psychiatrists. Interactive games such as "Chapters: Interactive stories’ for 17+ target audience tend to encourage criminal activity by posing questions …

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1 year, 10 months ago

New this week: Shania, ‘Princess Power’ and Pamela Anderson

Associated Press

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. But Coogler’s fluid command of mixing intimacy with spectacle remains gripping.” — Pamela Anderson has been making headlines again for revelations in the documentary “Pamela, A Love Story,” coming to Netflix on Tuesday. — Take …

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1 year, 11 months ago

The Last of Us may have broken the cardinal rule of video game adaptations

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. So when it was announced that HBO would be …

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1 year, 11 months ago

From a queer lens: 3 lessons from last year, and what I want from dating in 2023

Live Mint

“I hope you are mentally okay. Loneliness of the queer experience Anything marked by the interface of dating apps turns people into caricatures of themselves. Queer dating is not very queer I often see a quote from bell hooks floating around on social media: “…queer as not about who you’re having sex with, that can be a dimension of it, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

"The Last of Us" could change how Hollywood does video games, but hateful gamers make it difficult

Salon

Post-apocalyptic zombie video game series "The Last of Us" is getting an ambitious TV adaptation on HBO, but the game has attracted numerous hateful conspiracy theories, which the show is apparently not immune to, either. Bella Ramsey and Anna Torv in "The Last of Us" Casting controversies Meanwhile, Ramsey has been the target of hateful comments because her appearance is …

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2 years ago

Making ‘indie’ video games gets trickier as industry evolves

Associated Press

Video game developer Ben Esposito’s first big break was a quirky game called Donut County starring a raccoon who dropped small objects and then entire neighborhoods into an ever-growing hole in the ground. Every year, some tiny and independent video game developer studios like Esposito’s Angel Matrix hold their own with the big leagues by making hit games that achieve …

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