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dj_ultima_the_great (Jen )
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Three hundred eleventh entry - 7100 hits...?
2007-04-24 19:07:58
Time - 5:40, Noise - Vast - "Thrown Away"
Wow... I actually gained a lot of hits since last time I posted. I guess my schedule is that interesting...?
About that, I chatted briefly with my advisor after Spanish today, and he seems surprisingly receptive to me going with the idea I had. (That is, for me to miss the first hour of a two hour Thursday class if I still make the other two hours on T/Th, since the first hour conflicts with Japanese.) I'm probably not taking the Spanish Violence class that he suggested, but I'll still need to find a slot for my math class. That simplifies matters considerably. It'll put me at 15 credits if I miss the Violence class, but oh well. Eighteen credit schedules blow anyway. I prefer to hang between 14 and 16.
On a different note, I tried masking out some lip flap in THE Video today, but it's not going well. I can't get it to look right. However, I only tried one part, so I'll try a few others and see if my degree of success is a bit better there. I can handle the couple speaking at a few parts if that's what has to be done. After all, you can't have a relationship without speaking. These two just happen to chatter too much. Then, there are some parts where I'm purposely NOT removing the lip. It just wouldn't look right, because the fact that one person is yelling at the other one is the *reason* why the other is reacting in a certain way. It wouldn't make sense to take that out. Still, though, I'll keep trying on the other parts. The others may look better than this one did.
I got such a freakin' good idea for a Tsubasa manga music video a few weeks ago. I'm completely obsessed with the song, and now I really want to make the video. I think it's slowly becoming the new THE Video for me. Trouble is that I need to wait for the rest of the series to come out, because I'm thinking that there are going to be scenes I want out of it for this video.
Manga music video. Eeesh. Just the thought of it makes me wonder how difficult it would be. I know that it would take much more effort than an AMV, because a slide show is pure boredom 95% of the time. I'd have to brush up on effects for that sucker. Good thing in this case, though. I already have a good idea of what sorts of effects I'd want to use. That's a phenomenal thing for me, considering that my brain does NOT think in effects normally. Fade to black/white is about the extent of my effect repertoire, so coming up with complex ideas like this so quickly is pretty amazing.
What's the idea, you ask? As usual, I can't tell, or I'd jinx myself out of doing it. I don't mind divulging one of the sources, though, because it's probably going to be more than a year before I can do the idea. Chances are everyone would forget that I ever had the idea by the time I actually got around to starting it.
And I don't forget ideas. I had the concept for THE Video for about a year before I started in on it last month.
I guess I better go. I need to leave for band in fairly short time. Final rehearsal before the concert on Thursday! o^_^o
See you, folks. <3
- Jen
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Three hundred tenth entry - THEY ALL CONFLICT!!! X_X
2007-04-23 21:22:00
Time - 7:46, Noise - Pink - "Stupid Girls"
Okay... so I go to sign up for classes, thinking that it would be easy. Aside from having too damn many number to juggle in the screwy sign up system, it's never been much of a problem for me. Zero credits down, eighteen to go. Let's tango with the sign up system.
So I put in my Band class first. Easy. Tuesday 7-9 at night. That *never* conflicts with anything.
Then I put in Japanese I, knowing that it might only have one section available (dinky-ass school, doesn't offer ANY Asian languages - even this one is long distance learning). M/T/W/Th, 12-1. No problem. Doesn't conflict with lunch, at least.
French I is next. Also M/T/W/Th, but from 10-11. Hey, that's perfect. Gives me a nice hour from 11-12 to eat lunch.
Math With Applications is next. T/Th, 9:30-11. Well, fuck. Conflicts with French. Another section, maybe? WTF, there *isn't* one!? Okay... looks like we're going to have to look into another math class. (I looked. There are other classes that can work and make just as much sense.)
Spanish Literature and Culture is up now. Another T/Th... ugh. 1-2 and 12-2. Oh, for the love of... that conflicts with Japanese! Another section? Of course not. Like a fucking 3840 level course would have another section. >: (
Spanish Violence wraps it all up. MWF, ooh, nice. ........12-1. I hate you. Or rather, Spanish hates Japanese, it would seem. Fuck finding another section. If 3840 didn't have it, why would 3850? (I checked anyway. It only has one.)
I don't know what to do now. Spanish is my major. Japanese is just a hobby. My advisor is my Spanish professor. You already know what he's going to suggest - drop Japanese. But it's always going to conflict with something. ALWAYS. If I don't stand my ground on this one, I'll never be able to take it - and if not this semester, then at least not until next year, since Japanese I is only offered in the fall.
However... my advisor just happens to be the professor for one of the conflicting classes. The literature and culture one. And if I can convince him, he might let me take it anyway. I mean, I can make the Tuesday hour, and the second hour on Thursday. And I'd be willing to pick up the slack of the hour I miss. Assuming I can get the math class I want, that would bring me up to a 14 credit schedule.
And then there's the second Spanish class. I don't know what to do about that. Maybe I can bargain for Independent Study? I don't think so, but hell if I don't try. That would give me 17 credits. If you're wondering where the eighteenth credit comes from that I mentioned in the beginning, it's the result of taking band. I'm not even sure that counts for a credit anymore, so I don't count it. Besides, it's recreation, not a class. I just happen to have to show up for it.
Ugh. I hate signing up for classes. It always gives me headaches like this, although usually it's just been because of the awful sign up system. That got changed this year, so it's not so bad. But they removed something very useful from the new system that was in the old one - a feature that instantly told you if you had input a conflicting class. This new system just lets you put in whatever you want without saying what won't work. Fortunately, I always sketch out my schedule in a notebook before I input stuff, so it's not as big of a deal for me. But it's still annoying.
That's my best solution for now. I just need to run it by my advisor, and with any luck, he'll let me try it.
;_;
See you, folks.
- Jen
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Three hundred ninth entry - Is your AMV on my compy?
2007-04-22 22:44:12
Time - 8:29, Noise - Ryan Cabrera - "On the Way Down"
I've been wanting to do this list for a while now, but I was waiting to re-download as many AMVs as I could before that. I think I'm pretty much finished, aside from the needle-in-a-haystack p2p searches I may be doing this summer. So, before the list, a few notes:
1. Aurora Vampira and dj_ultima are both me. I didn't start labeling my own videos with dj_ultima until I started using Magix.
2. 95% of the videos in this list are AMVs. The other 5% consist of official music videos and other related videos that I wanted (usually for a game). I just happen to keep all of this stuff in the same folder for ease of location.
3. With the exception of a few really amazing videos, I only keep AMVs using anime/games I know. It's especially obvious when I have several videos to one source. The ones that I only have one or two videos for may not be sources I'm familiar with (the two videos using Pale Cocoon are an example of this).
4. Videos might not all be labeled correctly. It's difficult to keep track of this many videos, especially when not all of them had a nice and neat entry on the .org (or they did, but that's not where I downloaded it in the first place). What's mostly missing is the editors for several of them, because that's the hardest thing to obtain if there isn't an .org entry. So please bear with me.
5. If you're video isn't on my list, don't feel bad. I may not have even seen it, or sometimes I just have too many great videos for one source and I can't afford to keep them all. That's what my side document of 650+ video listings is for.
6. Have fun looking through what I consider to be the most amazing, quirky, touching, funny, dramatic, riveting, and just plain awsm-est videos out there.
(Videos listed in alphabetical order by anime, then by editor, then artist, then song - and if necessary, by title.)
Ah! My Goddess - AMV_4000 - Linkin Park - Pushing Me Away
Ah! My Goddess - JaddziaDax - Barlow Girl - Never Alone
Ah! My Goddess - Loss
Ah! My Goddess - Radical Yue - K-System - Guardian Angel
Ah! My Goddess - Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have to Do
Ah! My Goddess and X - Three Doors Down - Kryptonite
Air - Ari-chan - Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You
Air - inthesto - Hiroku Kokubu - Eternity ~ Memories of Light and Waves ~
Air - rurisis - SweetS - Mienai Tsubasa
Air - Troyan - Alan Silvestri - Pandora's Box
Air - xRinoa - Remember Me
Angel Sanctuary - Orbital Castle Studio - Econoline Crush - Home
Angel Sanctuary - The Union Underground - Revolution Man
Angelic Layer - Metal Gear Solid 2 - Main Theme (remix)
Angelic Layer - Senta Miller - System of a Down - Chop Suey
Angelic Layer - X'3m Productions - Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
Azumanga Daioh - Copycat_Revolver - They Might be Giants - Experimental Film
Azumanga Daioh - suberunker - Strong Bad - The System is Down (Strong Bad Sings)
Blood The Last Vampire - Korn - Make Me Bad (Salvation Mix)
Bottle Fairy - dokidoki - Various Artists - Various Songs
Cardcaptor Sakura - Chiikaboom - Nightwish - Moondance
Cardcaptor Sakura - dokidoki - Iniquity - The Bullet's Breath
Cardcaptor Sakura - dokidoki - Metal Gear Solid - Mission Audio
Cardcaptor Sakura - el flaco burgos - Frou Frou - Breathe In
Cardcaptor Sakura - Jaddzia Dax - Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Cardcaptor Sakura - LantisEscudo - Lazytown - Step By Step
Cardcaptor Sakura - Megamom - Frou Frou - Flicks
Cardcaptor Sakura - Pianos - Orange Range - Asterisk
Cardcaptor Sakura - Renegado Fantasma - Frou Frou - Let Go
Cardcaptor Sakura - slackergirl - Coldplay - Yellow
Cardcaptor Sakura - slackergirl - Sarah McLachlan - Fear (LunaSol Remix)
Chobits - Automated Reason - Code White
Chobits - Barbie Girl
Chobits - Edwin McCain - Bakadeshi - I Could Not Ask for More
Chocobo's Dungeon 2 - Aurora Vampira - Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Mandy
Chocobo's Dungeon 2 - dj_ultima - Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Mandy (remastered)
Chrono Cross - Staind - Outside
Comedy (Sweat Punch 3) - Absolute Destiny - Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands - Various Audio
Devil May Cry 3 - dj_ultima - Final Fantasy VII - Victory Fanfare
Devil May Cry 3 - Psycho1412 - Hevein - Iota
Digimon Frontier - Aurora Vampira - Dance Dance Revolution - Final Countdown (Crybabay Mix)
Elfen Lied - aerialesque - Guano Apes - Innocent Greed
Elfen Lied - aerialesque - Saliva - Weight of the World
Elfen Lied - Aria Uchiha - SpineShank - Forgotten
Elfen Lied - Aurora Vampira - Good Charlotte - A New Beginning
Elfen Lied - dirtymopwater - Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up
Elfen Lied - Ileia - Jewel - Amen
Elfen Lied - Ileia - The Distillers - The Hunger
Elfen Lied - p0d - Calogero - Prendre Racine
Elfen Lied - Richard Cheese - Down with the Sickness
Elfen Lied - zeugma440 - BT - Communicate
Fatal Frame 1-3 - Spatula_Castle - A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Fatal Frame II - dj_ultima - HIM - Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly
Fatal Frame II - Ill Nino - How Can I Live
Fatal Frame II - purplepolecat - Poe - Haunted
Fatal Frame II - Stolen Soul - TATU - All the Things She said
Final Fantasy IV-VIII - Excalibur
Final Fantasy IV-X - Aurora Vampira - Resident Evil CVX - Ending Theme Complete
Final Fantasy Movie - Michael Jackson - Thriller
Final Fantasy Movie - requiett - Rob Zombie - More Human Than Human (remix)
Final Fantasy Movie - Sky Williams - Theory of a Deadman - The Last Song
Final Fantasy VI - Bale - Riverdance - Lord of the Dance
Final Fantasy VII - Orgy - Blue Monday
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children - LockstocK - Mushroomhead - Nowhere to Go
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children - Malificus - Mindless Self Indulgence - Mark David Chapman
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children - Prodigi - A Perfect Circle - Passive
Final Fantasy VII, X-2, DoC - sayde - Jade - Real Emotion (English)
Final Fantasy VIII - Enigmagic Studios - Shinedown - Fly From the Inside
Final Fantasy VIII-X - Aurora Vampira - Moulin Rouge - Ending Credits Score
Final Fantasy VII-X - Aurora Vampira - Silent Hill 2 - Theme of Laura and Reprise
Final Fantasy X - OniZabuza - DHT - Listen to Your Heart
Final Fantasy X - Princess Buzzy - Garbage - Nobody Loves You
Final Fantasy X and X-2 - -kari- - Michelle Branch - You Set Me Free
Final Fantasy X and X-2 - samantca - Within Temptation - Somewhere
Final Fantasy X-2 - greenjinjo - Speakerboxx
FLCL - Nine Inch Nails - Perfect Drug
FLCL - Weird Al Yankovic - Polka
Fruits Basket - Arczi - Counting Crows - Colorblind
Fruits Basket - dokool - Steven Curtis Chapman - Bring It On
Fruits Basket - Earendil18 - The Ones - Flawless
Fruits Basket - Furuba Music Television
Fruits Basket - Furuba Music Television II
Fruits Basket - I'm Going to Make a Cake
Fruits Basket - Silvere elve - Jimmy Eat World - Praise Chorus
Gravitation - Enigmagic - Saliva - Always
Gravitation - Goo Goo Dolls - What a Scene
Gravitation - meiko_chan - Hamptom the Hamster - The Hamster Dance (techno remix)
Gravitation - InGoW - Wir Sind Helden - Darf Ich Bas Behalten
Gravitation - More Than Toast - Rejected - I am a Banana!
Gravitation OAV - X-Treme - My Fire
Halo - The Matrix - Opening
Hellsing - Epsillion - Panic! At the Disco - Time to Dance
Hellsing - Ileia - Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains
Kaleido Star - Chiikaboom - Kotoko - Suppuration -core-
Kaleido Star - SenshiMamoru - Andy Hunter - Amazing
Kare Kano - Conjure One - Sleep
Kare Kano - Uanime5 - Wicked - Popular
Kingdom Hearts - Hope - Ayumi Hamasaki - Dearest
Kingdom Hearts - jasper-isis - Johnny Rzeznik - I'm Still Here
Kingdom Hearts - tifa1234 - Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark
Kingdom Hearts - -kari- - Carl Orff - O Fortuna (remix)
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 - Ed IV - Malice Mizer - Illuminati
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 - misao_chan - Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 - omegaevolution - Bump of Chicken - Karma
Kingdom Hearts 2 - sayde - Crush 40 - Open Your Heart
Le Portrait De Petit Cossette - Alexboy - Vienna Teng - My Medea
Le Portrait De Petit Cossette - Arcane Azmadi - Placebo - Blind
Le Portrait De Petit Cossette - Icy Cloud - Silent Hill 4 OST - Room of Angel
Le Portrait De Petit Cossette - Mrs Pilkington - Skillet - My Obsession
Love Hina - Corran - Collective Soul - The World I Know
Love Hina - Ebonics Language Lessons
Love Hina - Senta Miller - Offspring - Come Out and Play
Loveless - JaddziaDax - Imogen Heap - The Walk
Loveless - Yorae - Frou Frou - Hear Me Out
Neon Genesis Evangelion - ErMaC - Michael and Janet Jackson - Scream
Neon Genesis Evangelion - ErMaC - Nine Inch Nails - We're in This Together Now
Neon Genesis Evangelion - ErMaC - Yasunori Mitsuda - Evil Light
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Jebadia - Vast - We Will Meet Again
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Star Wars Episode I - Trailer
Noir - A-Man!! - Various Songs (Daydreams and Nightmares)
Noir - Madonna - Die Another Day
Noir - SacredArrow18 - Mad at Gravity - Historypeats
Onimusha - NetTroop - Lostprophets - Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja
Pale Cocoon and Freedom - trythil - Mute Math - Control
Parasite Eve - Kusoyaro - Lunatic Calm - Leave You Far Behind
Parasite Eve 1 and 2 - sayde - Fuel - Last Time
Parasite Eve and Devil May Cry 3 - dj_ultima - Various Songs - Discontinued Thoughts
Perfect Blue and Pale Cocoon - kragdrim - Emilie Simon - Alicia
Pokemon - Aluminum Studios - New Order - True Faith
Pokemon - Fight Club - Trailer
Pokemon - Otaku Vengeance - Mindless Self Indulgence - Bitches
Resident Evil 4 - Castor Troy - Madonna - Die Another Day
Rule of Rose - IcyCloud - Rasputina - Girls' School
Saikano - Absolute Destiny - Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Saikano - kenshin - Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You tonight Part I
Serial Experiments Lain - Akuma - Marilyn Manson - Resident Evil
Serial Experiments Lain - Flom@ - Zeromancer - Dr. Online
Serial Experiments Lain - Kwasek - Elliot Smith - Happiness
Silent Hill - Evening Prayer
Silent Hill - Fukuro
Silent Hill - Vast - Pretty When You Cry
Silent Hill 1-3 - AKROSS - Resident Evil Movie - Main Theme
Silent Hill 1-3 - Muse - Hysteria
Silent Hill 1-3 - No Doubt - I'm Just a Girl
Silent Hill 1-4 - EvilSpider - Resident Evil - Main Theme [Silence Director's Cut]
Silent Hill 2 - Disperazione
Silent Hill 2 - Ki-No-Ko
Silent Hill 2 - Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope
Silent Hill 2 - Wiseguys - Start the Commotion
Silent Hill 3 - I Want Love (studio mix) and Teaser
Silent Hill 3 - Usagi
Silent Hill 3 - You're Not Here
Silent Hill and Parasite Eve - Aurora Vampira - Disturbed - Darkness
Silent Hill Movie - khameleon808 - Nine Inch Nails - Burn
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Bakadeshi - The Veronicas - 4ever
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Koopiskeva - Heartsdales feat. SOUL'D OUT - Candy Pop
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - silver_moon - Skye Sweetnam - Sharada
Tokyo Babylon - lafhaha - The Beatles - Yesterday
Tokyo Babylon - TheGline - Doubting Thomas - Father Don't Cry
Tokyo Babylon - Vision
Tokyo Babylon and X - ApocalypseInc - Portishead - Roads
Tokyo Babylon and X - Dawnhawk, Nashi - RENT - Seasons of Love
Tokyo Babylon and X - Kasra_WTF - Nine Inch Nails - All that Could Have Been
Trigun - Sierra Lorna - Good Charlotte - Movin' On
Trigun and Hellsing - System of a Down - X
Tsubasa - Arigatomina - AFI - Prelude 12/21
Tsubasa - Erinn - Within Temptation - Memories
Tsubasa - Erinn- Story of the Year - Dive Right In
Tsubasa - maricela - RBD - Salvame
Various Anime - AquaSky - Adam and Andrew - Emo Kid
Various Anime - Arigatomina - Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
Various Anime - Bakadeshi - Project Ayumix - D a y b r e a k
Various Anime - Big Big Truck - Failed Experiments in Video Editing
Various Anime - Danny Elfman - What's This
Various Anime - dokidoki - Van Halen - Right Now
Various Anime - Fall_Child42 - Digital Droo - Monkey Developers
Various Anime - Fall_Child42 - TISM - Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Various Anime - Greenjinjo - Pablo Francisco - Little Tortilla Boy
Various Anime - Indifferent Studios - Bush - Little Things
Various Anime - Lord AceMan - The Beloved - Sweet Harmony (AceMan's Edit)
Various Anime - Memory Flash Project
Various Anime - Yaoi Theater 3000
Various Anime and Games - suberunker - Carter Burwell - Overture (Conspiracy Theory OST)
Various CLAMP Anime - CLAMP in Wonderland
Various Games - Aurora Vampira - Chevelle - The Red
Various Games - Aurora Vampira - Deftones - Change (studio acoustic)
Various Games - Aurora Vampira - Various Songs - Complete
Various Games - Evanescence - Eternal
X 1999 - Estrogen - BJ Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
X 1999 - Opening
X and Tokyo Babylon - Gallup - Switchfoot - This is Your Life
X and Tokyo Babylon - maricela - Avril Lavigne - Slipped Away
X and Tokyo Babylon - Sarah McLachlan - Do What You Have to Do
X TV - Aurora Vampira - Various Audio (Come Again, Sei-chan)
X TV - Enigma - Gravity of Love
X TV - ErMaC Studios - E Nomine - Vater Unser
X TV - kidneythieves - Feathers
X TV - Nekoyoukai - Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer
X TV - Nightwish - End of All Hope
X TV - Rammstein - Feuer Frei
Xenosaga Episode 2 - evilspider - Yoshiko - Look to the Sky
Yami no Matsuei - Darius GQ - Oomph! - Augen Auf
Yami no Matsuei - dbz_gurlz - Day of Fire - Through the Fire
Yami no Matsuei - dbz_gurlz - TATU - All About Us
Yami no Matsuei - Dido - Here With Me
Yami no Matsuei - Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Yami no Matsuei - Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Yami no Matsuei - SarahtheBoring - Vanessa Mae - Contradanza
Yami no Matsuei, Angel Sanctuary, Excel Saga - I Wanna Sex You Up
Yu-Gi-Oh! - Linkin Park - Papercut
Yu-Gi-Oh! - Spirited Away - Procession of the Spirits
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Three hundred eighth entry - slow, slow, slow, slow, slowpoke!
2007-04-21 02:46:34
Time - 1:38, Noise - Muse - "Starlight"
Actually, I really have nothing to write. I just need something to do before I go to bed.
So... the .org is slow right now. Takes an eternity for the prompt to pop up. I figured it was just my internet, but I saw godix put up a thread in the forum, so I guess it's a site-wide thing. Oh well. The download speeds are the same, so I can wait a few extra minutes for it to start. I'm sure whatever it is will be resolved soon enough. It always is.
Okay, I guess typing was a bad idea. My eyes don't want to stay open. And it's already pretty late (not really, but I wake up at 6 AM on weekdays, so this feels like a long day), so I should get to bed. Downloads all look like they're going okay, so no need for me to hover over them.
z_z Wow. Getting more out of it by the second... Z_Z
Nighty night, folks. ^_^
- Jen
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Three hundred seventh entry - pimp, download, upload
2007-04-19 01:55:05
Time - 12:47, Noise - me banging my fingers on the keyboard o_O
GET IT. NOW. :D
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=79029
So, my video for ACen is currently uploading to their server. It probably would have been done by now, except that stupid Windows crashed and canceled my IE uploading. So, I had to start over. I'm at seventy percent, and as long as I don't open any folders, I think I'll be okay. I'm pretty sure I need to reboot the compy, but I'll do that tomorrow morning.
Distribution form will be different, as I've mentioned, so you all probably won't see it until after the convention. Don't worry. It may be THE Video for me, but it ain't all that impressive. You're not missing out on too much if I wait a month to release it here.
I need to watch some of the videos I've downloaded recently. I have about ten tabs open right now with video profiles sitting on 'em. I'm such a slacker. ;p
Anyway, it's bedtime, and I most certainly need sleep, given the lack thereof last night. This day has sucked to no end of my imagination, but at least I'm going to bed in a good mood. ^_^
Nighty night, loves. <3
- Jen
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