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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just saw this review for SOLAS 128 from a bit ago and I absolutely love how spot on it is 💜 £12.40 to help charity and get 7 cool puzzle games (where at least one of them is provably Turing complete) sounds like a steal to me! 👉 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

A screenshot positive Steam Review with a big blue thumbs up which reads:

"Recommended 72 hrs on record (64.6 hrs at review time)

A puzzle rave inside an optical computer where pulses of light and tight EDM beats are your only friends.

Fresh and original, tons of gameplay, great level deisgn, provably turing complete

0x001b thumbs up"

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aw yisss, new hand drawn hero art on the Steam page! The French Revolution never looked so beautiful... Please share and wishlist! #GameDev #IndieGames #AdventureGame #PointAndClick store.steampowered.com/app/4090610/...

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Less Miserables on Steam

A historical comedy adventure game, loosely based on Les Misérables, with classic point-and-click puzzles, hand drawn art and an amazing voice cast.

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Tasselfoot @tasselfoot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone asked me what my favorite Armor Games Studios game is… and I said SOLAS 128 by @amicableanimal.bsky.social (I love all our games though. Like children.) You can get SOLAS + 6 other great games all while helping to support the @eff.org www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

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Programing Puzzles Bundle

Test your skills with this bundle of programming puzzle games! Pay what you want and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation!

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lovely news to start the week: SOLAS 128, my game about redirecting rhythmic pulses of light, is in a Programming Puzzles Bundle alongside 6 other awesome programming-esque puzzle games. I'm a huge fan of The Signal State and Retro Gadgets looks really cool 💜 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

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Programing Puzzles Bundle

Test your skills with this bundle of programming puzzle games! Pay what you want and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation!

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This shows the madness of our current political environment. Papers and politicians are spending endless political capital othering at risk groups and inventing moral panics. Whereas most people actually want others to be safe, and governments to spend time fixing energy, housing, and fuel costs?

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Control: Resonant is already absolutely batshit in the best possible way, and I'm only 1.5 hours in. Plus I love the fact after all the recent discourse Resonant has dozens of options for customising the UI and goes "hey, what if we had players follow glitching pigeons rather than a waypoint?"

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gotta love this Discord '90% of people won't need to be validated' thing. Total garbage, as expected. My throw away test account that has existed for 6 months, has no profile, and is in no servers? Verified Adult. My account that has existed for 10 years, has a profile, in servers? Unconfirmed 🤷

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Removing credits like this is childish behaviour. Worse still, it's punching down rather than lifting up other creators and designers. I have huge respect for Alan's response, and the New Voices grant is such a cool thing! Still, maybe consider picking up a different puzzle game instead?

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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Order of the Sinking Star is coming out next month, in advance of review coverage coming in I wanted to add one thing to my last statement about the game: bsky.app/profile/drak... (note: at that time I didn’t have a separate personal account)

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With Control: Resonant and Silent Hill: Downfall coming out this month we're really eating well for strange, interesting games with eerie vibes.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's so wild to see the BBC uncritically repeat Microsoft saying "hey our main competitor might destroy the world, but our tech is fine" as if it's fucking news. I dunno, maybe there is a really obvious ulterior motive there that the bare minimum of thought would have noticed?

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was looking forward to the Steam Frame, but after reading the reviews my interest has just evaporated. I'm totally baffled why they put so much effort into meh speakers, and haven't made it easy to use wired headphones? And no new game? It feels like its been sent out to die, which sucks.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Honestly, the best thing about the new Wolverine game is that I can update all my "this is how not to do it" slides. Would have been better if they'd released it with a bit more prep time before semester starts, but still.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has now officially surpassed the $30M amount Warner Bros. originally planned to write the film off for. The film is now projected to earn over $60M domestically.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 05/09/2026

Daniel is sharing his starter pack of game devs that don't use AI, so I figured rather than just repost it, I would quote post it with my three no AI game dev starter packs. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 04/09/2026

💚HISTORIC GREEN WIN! Local housing campaigner Lorenzo Martinico has made history by becoming the first Scottish Green to win a council by-election in Edinburgh. Congratulations to Lorenzo and the Edinburgh Greens.

Lorenzo Martinico. Scottish Greens Councillor elected

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been thinking about this all day and I just hate it all the way down. Extra busywork, ugh. You have to hold a button to make each one, uuuuugh. It is for a tiny buff for a tiny amount of time? UUUUUUUUGH. It's nothingy. Faux-content. It's bland, boring UI elements pretending to be game play.

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Idolon @idolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Portal mod I worked on is finally released!! Wow! I made the escape sequence, which is pretty significantly altered from the original, but structured around mostly the same gameplay beats. I'll follow up with some screenshots once I'm off work.

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Portal: Alive & Kicking on Steam

Portal: Alive & Kicking is a full remake and re-imagining of Valve's award-winning title, Portal. Using the visual capabilities of Portal 2, A&K slips you back into the cold test chambers of A...

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I snagged a Pebble Time 2 earlier this week and, of course, I immediately wanted to make my own watchface so... Here's my first attempt! An Art Deco Sundial where the sun/moon moves around the border with the time. Plus step tracking on the middle!

A photos of a black rectangular smart watch on a wrist, in artificial light. The face shows the time as 23:04 at the top, and 26 August, Wednesday on the bottom. These are separated by a white line across the width with a yellow rectangle nearly the same width covering it. Around the outside is a border which is light blue in the top half, and orange on the bottom half, separated by a black horizon. There are lines marking each three hour marker around the border. A white circle is at the bottom in the orange border, approaching the vertical line representing midnight.

A photos of a black rectangular smart watch on a wrist, in daylight. The face shows the time as 11:52 at the top, and 27 August, Thursday on the bottom. These are separated by a white line across the width with a yellow rectangle covering it the middle fifth. Around the outside is a border which is light blue in the top half, and orange on the bottom half, separated by a black horizon. There are lines marking each three hour marker around the border. A yellow circle is at the top in the blue border, overlapping but slightly to the left of the vertical line representing midday.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Are we repackaging 'digital native' now, because *that* was already a whole pile of arse to begin with.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As I've seen other do: No free, only $6.66. You've got about two hours, go go go!

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I see Google is getting more pressure from shareholders for all the money they're wasting on gAI! An obnoxiously large 'Ask Gemini' button has appeared somewhere you might accidentally click it and it's animated just in case you might miss it. I have all 'Smart Features' turned off too. Aces.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm so tired of creatives on YouTube jumping on gAI. It's so disheartening to see them throwing other creative disciplines under the bus for exploitative tech from thieving billionaires. So many musicians going "AI is ruining music so I made this using Claude" The cognitive dissonance is strong.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

Confirming: When you buy a DF game now, you support us directly!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Absolutely wild that anyone involved in this thought it was a good idea to push it out the week Saber Interactive's CEO had a very public meltdown when called out about their gAI use.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Had the day off and I decided to really lean into some cooking. In unrelated news is anyone else really needing a nap?

A top down photograph of a lasagne still in the glass dish, sitting on the raised hob elements of a cooktop.

The cheesy top is brown and crispy and it's trying to bubble out of the dish.

A photo of a slice of lasagne on a large white plate. The slice is slightly toppling over showing its meaty layers, and there is a scoop of the minced beef filling alongside.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Herd is absolutely great. If you like puzzle games you should check this out immediately!

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm pretty sure places get closed down for topping ice cream with their own protein?

A picture of three ice creams with the headling "Protein or pickled garlic? What's new in ice cream"

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You do have to wonder just how many dead cats labour still have by this point. Haven't they thrown them all on the table already? Where exactly do you go from using the national alert system to distract people from your policies?

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's amazing (and kinda sad) that the most fun I've had with an FPS all year is the new Quake Episode. Each level has been massive, surprising, and full of exploration. Plus it has new enemies, perma upgrades, and sealed routes for later. It's so engrossing! It lets me get lost and stumble about!

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To be clear about what happened yesterday in the UK: a far right grifter wasted ≈£350,000 of public money to to try and hide an undeclared £5 million donation. He is now trying to claim he beat the "establishment" when all he actually managed was to get roughly twice as many votes as a bin.

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Dumpster Fire: What Is Even Happening?

Alt: Dumpster Fire: What Is Even Happening?

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Edinburgh Eclipse Taken Through Borrowed Glasses!

A red tinted picture, as it was taken through eclipse glasses, showing the partial eclipse in the middle of frame as a glowing orange. The bottom left corner of the sun is missing showing a thin crescent, slightly tipped to the left.

A dark red tinted picture, as it was taken through eclipse glasses, showing the partial eclipse in the middle of frame as a glowing orange. The left half of the sun is missing showing a thin crescent, just slightly tipped left.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just apropos of nothing, Valve historically have given no questions asked refunds for games that failed to disclose their gAI use. I've used it a couple of times.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh that's exciting! Eufloria 1 had some really lovely visual and game design going on in it, so I'm excited to see what they do with a sequel!

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah. This is a very cool set 🛢️

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 09/08/2026

This is shocking. An woman left a voicemail message with North Lanarkshire council, objecting to a data centre being built, and then she got a call from the organisation building the data centre? Wtf happened here?

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trying a little Millionaire Shortbread experiment today: what if caramalised white chocolate drizzle?

A photograph of a traybake still in the tray, with baking paper around it. There is a dark brown chocolate layer visible under a vest generous drizzle of caramelised white chocolate

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In Edinburgh for the Fringe? Tonight ONLY, a free show of locally made indie games! Offbeat student games from HW, local indies, 5pm tonight next to the castle, tickets below! #EdinburghFringe #IndieGames #GamesExpo

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Most importantly, however, we'll have the amazing games from our MDes students! Do you want to plan a strange building? Play N64-style golf with friends? Explore a definitely haunted apartment building? Shoot rockets at your friends' cars, and/or more! Tomorrow! 👉 buytickets.at/mdesingames/...

A screenshot from City Blocks, which shows a pixel art rendition of a building from the side, cut away so you can see the vacant rooms insider. There are three floors, each with 5 rooms, some of which have been completed with buildings. A large Requests window shows, asking for the following four things: Classic U-Turn, Right way around again, UFO!!!, Fashonista.

A screenshot from a dark and foreboding looking horror game. A person is standing in front of the player, hunched over somewhat, looking back over their right shoulder and not quite making eye contact with the camera/player. A text box reads "Stranger: New things always have a smell."

A screenshot of a golf game, taken from when a ball is landing on what seems to be a wooden bridge. The ball has a green trail showing it's come from higher up and then landing on the wood. To the top it reads Iron Craig, Par 6, P1 Shot: 7. To the right there is a distance and speed reading, a top-down minimap of the hole, and to the left is a green golf club icon.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The penultimate game from our local developer line up for this coming Thursday is Less Miserables by @collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy! A point-and-click parody of Les Misérables with puzzles, hand drawn art, and an amazing voice cast. Thursday! buytickets.at/mdesingames/...

A picture from the game showing a small old-world street, with a dirt flooring. The main character is a bearded male and stands in front of a Boulangerie wearing a heavy coat and brown boots. Next to him stands a small girl in tattered clothing. They are watched by someone in a vibrant red hat leaning against a boarded up door, and ignored by a posh looking gentleman with a red neckerchief or bow-tie.

A picture from the game showing a cobbled street. The main character is a bearded male and stands with his arms out stretched in the rain, screaming up into the sky in the classic NOOOOOOOOO pose. They are wearing a tattered brown top and simple boots.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Amicable Animal - New CRT7 demo OUT NOW! 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A bit of a self insert today, as we'll also be showing Dissimulation from me and @m-enderbug.bsky.social! Explore a small dungeon, learn how to open the gates blocking your way, and find a way out... all controlled from a midi controller! Join us on Thursday for free: buytickets.at/mdesingames/...

A photograph of a computer monitor showing the game Dissimulation, and a Launchpad Pro MK 3 beneath it. The monitor shows a gate with a panel (saying 'test) at the top. On the panel is a grid showing a puzzle with some lights and purple 0-like symbols. The Launchpad shows the same puzzle only in lit up buttons.

A screenshot showing the game Dissimulation. The game shows a dungeon corridor, lit up from a ceiling mounted light. The floor is white and blue checkered tiles, and the wall to the left is brick. To the front and to the right are two gates with puzzle panels showing on them.

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