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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 22/09/2026

"It's a joke. But its also serious." Sums up a lot.

A quote from kotaku's article covering northernlions reaction to a twitch streamer taking an advertisement from the US Military.

snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 04/09/2026

its like this all the time when making stuff for ttrpgs. Im so alarmed when I make stuff for video games because everyone is way nicer and way less dense.

comment on a trans woman's video: transmasc erasure lmao

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 02/09/2026

This is just kinda funny at this point.

PlayOverwatch Post: introducing Questwatch - Overwatch's first-ever TTRPG adventure happening LIVE at BlizzCon on Sep 13!

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 27/08/2026

Hi new followers! Did you know i have a blog full of writing about games??? Well, now you do. I'd suggest my Lancer review and then my latest zines "warmth attracts cold bodies" and "kill jane doe." www.patreon.com/c/snowttrpg

An excerpt from my lancer review where I build a time machine and make 14 year old me do the review.

a large Ansel adams style picture i took in marathon for kill jane doe

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 13/08/2026

PANL is my submission to the 1 page rpg jam. It's a game about printing clones and torturing them in the hopes that they maybe develop psychic abilities and you don't get sent back to permanent cryo sleep. Uhhh play it with your weirdo friends and have fun dying a bunch. snowttrpg.itch.io/panl

PANL is a 1 page rpg that you can check out and read fully by going here: https://snowttrpg.itch.io/panl

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 08/08/2026

its unbearably hot in my apartment send help

picture of snow smiling. she's wearing a turtle necklace.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 07/08/2026

Doing another community game night next Saturday. Come by <3

Halo 3 Custom games. Download the master chief collection. Saturday, 8/15, and 7pm. Community discord: discord.gg/rJnstCV2Z

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 06/08/2026

The Hound Knight and his imprisoned Princess from Magnolia. Art by the amazing @selkie.online. Go read about Magnolia on itch and help us afford more art: snowttrpg.itch.io/magnolia

The Hound Knight is a tall, lanky kobold, a human/dog hybrid, muzzled eternally. His armory is clean, bedazzled, and belted. His tail bushy.. Dagger sharp.

The princess is lithe, with long snout, pointed ears, and slender but flowing tail. Face chains hand beneath her eyes and wrap around her mouth as a muzzle.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 03/08/2026

Magnolia finds the Songbirds under the geas of Love's court, attending to each of the family's needs. Trimming the living garden, making the children laugh, and freeing uncle's ex lover from the Agony Parade. It's the first big expansion/adventure for Songbirds and it's in early access right now!

The cover of Magnolia features a knight, arms folded, hands on her blades, with sharp eyes pointed through your heart.

Magnolia’s body curls around the world. Her blood and viscera await, hand dancing with shadows in atmosphere. His Lady Algernon warred for 1000 years to win her heart as part of his Vision of Peace. Seven years ago he succeeded. Now the world’s gone ‘sleep.
This is a world of plays. Where pretend overrides reality, pens in jelly ink. A darkened void of space where spotlights shine on those who stand before a crowd. A thought bubble floats by, holding inner secrets. And the fairies who crafted it all are long dead, taking the truth with them.
Whispers and scuttles echo out of the Sleeping City, as mock royals flood the palace. Pocket world, Mirror world, your noir. And little birds find themselves adrift in their slumber, or perhaps called here by she. But be warned: beneath the surface of this dream there are chewing teeth. Ugly, wormy things.

The people of Twilight are doomed. Cosmically, sure, but really it’s all part of The Drama. You are what you wear on this stage. You can play any role if you can back it up. Talk the talk to walk the walk. There’s little in the way of consistency, besides your doom. It follows you. Accumulates and pains.
Songbirds gain a point of doom:
At character creation.
If they have five points in one stat.
When they mark three stress.
When they face a horror.
When they create an alter ego.

Songbirds add +Doom to damage they take.

Harpy. The fae that live here used to rule over Labyrinthia before it died. Their hungry spirits still pretend, spinning souls into rings and other pretty things.
One of Ort’s many, many hands sleeps around your neck.
Puppet him with concentration. He moves fast at any range, uses your stats, and returns to sleep when released.
The ring around his sixth finger holds Ort’s dead world.
Mark a stress to release his full power: large, 20hp, 10 in all stats, does whatever a giant hand could do. Returns to its dead world at 0hp, and returns when healed fully.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 29/07/2026

Important to point out that I'm constantly plucking away at updated Songbirds in the lead up to MAGNOLIA, the first, big, official expansion (coming soon to early access itch-funding). snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e

A songbird maiden clings to her bastard sword as birds eat her innards.

"You awaken in a moon pool, an iron coin tucked into your pocket and the fading dream f an endless cave behind you. Love's fortune sketches your history in broad strokes. Do what you will with it. It makes no difference in this life."

The update skill list is rather cool. My favorites are Pain, Vibes, Mischief, and Haunt.

The Fang is a theif-style class about tracking and stalking. While the Green Mage uses weird, painful magics to heal mortal wounds.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 23/07/2026

My new video goes live Saturday, but you can watch it early on my blog rn <3 link down below.

a yellow house that looks like it's captured by an early 2000's camera

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 18/07/2026

Some new wip classes for the songbirds adventure/expansion.

13th Hours
Permanently remove one of 13 Hours left in this world. Mythic feathered children of this dream. Leathery, tormented fragments of a dying mind, birthed from her blood.
You have a human form you can take at will.
You roll a d12 instead of a d10. For all rolls.
Your claws count as heavy weapons.
You are Large and considered Fast when you fly.
Bard
The sleeping city refuses to watch or listen. You are her voice, and her judgment. A carved tomb trap coming fast to snatch prey.
You are a legal notary and witness. Graduate of a bardic college. Change to see if it was a prestigious Daisy Chain school.
You have expertise in two LOR skills of your choice.
Double your CHA when calculating starting reputation.
You have a squire for the rest of the year who assists you in exchange for school credit.

Crypt Prince
Beneath the skin of the earth, in her guts and blood, the vermin sprawl. Serum, their god, curls and sleeps within labyrinthia.
Choose 2 parasites to infest your body.
You do not trigger The Cave in total darkness.
You may speak with worms.
Serum’s servants heed your command.
Darkside Knight
When the smiling beast was pinned, he gave his heart to his sister, who carves it and casts its shaving into the ocean.
Your heart does not beat, it cracks and sizzles.
You can puppet fire with your free hands.
You are resistant to pyro damage.
Super heat metal with your angry touch.

Hellkite Knight
The daughters of the sleeping city disagree on the purpose of mages, summoning knights to wage their tiny wars. Pen, produce, procure. The magic is yours.
You can read and create magic writing and code using chalk.
Spend a downtime action to create 3 copies of an Enchantment Tag.
You have a bat familiar.
You have advantage to attack or damage with swords.
Hound Knight
You failed your princess. The crypt prince won.
You are the last kobold knight in her service. Keep your full plate healthy.
Your blade is vorpal, decapitating liars, thieves, and assassins on a hit.
The curse upon you reduces you to 1hp and can only be broken by true love’s kiss.
Your bite and claws count as knives.

Harpy
The fae that live here used to rule over labyrinthia before it died. Thier hungry spirits still pretend, spinning souls into rings and other pretty things.
One of Ort’s many, many hands likes to sleep around your neck.
You can puppet him with concentration. He moves fast at any range, uses your stats, and returns to sleep when released.
The ring around his sixth finger holds Ort’s dead world.
Mark a stress to release his full power: he’s large, 20hp, 10 in all stats, deals massive damage with its punches, squeezes, and so on, can push, guard you, and do whatever a giant hand could do. If you don’t puppet it, it will do its best to protect you. When its Substance reaches 0, it will return the next evening.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 13/07/2026

currently running a poll on the discord about community game night this coming Saturday, so go vote and show up so we can hang <3

POLL on snows discord about community game night.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 10/07/2026

it's hot af out. ac working overtime. put some stuff on sale so go check it out <3 itch.io/s/195660/sum...

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 30/06/2026

So many people in my recent youtube video HATE my desktop. I bet they'd be even more mad to know I use light mode on everything.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 27/06/2026

Did you know im running a sale? All my recent stuff: Lilancholy, songbirds, soul cemetery, kill jane doe, etc. itch.io/s/186467/the...

SNOW IS RUNNING A SALE! https://itch.io/s/186467/the-entire-world-is-in-a-big-cookie-and-im-gonna-eat-it

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 26/06/2026

Today I worked on photobashing a ton of my favorite maps together to begin work on a Songbirds setting guide.

A large, vertical orienter map that follows a large river to the moon. It says "Songbirds setting guide" on it.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 25/06/2026

Some of you may not know that I created Songbirds! It's body-horror, weird-fantasy adventure game. It's a game I've toiled on for years and years. Everything I want in an adventure game. You should check out the free sample on itch~ snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e

The cover of Songbirds 3e features a woman holding onto her buster sword while being eaten by birds.

Once upon a time, two gods lived together in your sky: the god of love and the god of death. Two great and powerful foxes who danced as one. Until one day, in a fit of jealous rage, the god of love was killed and fell from the sky. Now there is but one god. Our sorrowful and tired god who sleeps inside the moon.
Now the dead rise. Spirits find no rest. Bones refuse to settle. Suffering become tangible. People no longer pray to Death for fear of waking her, and reach out to Love though she does not answer. A world caught between, left hanging as it too becomes a corpse that cannot slumber. Annihilation is not coming, it is here and destroying all in its path.
And then there’s you, poor thing–returned. Cursed by death, people whisper. Chosen by love, bemoan the stars. You are changed strange by your liminality. Gifted with the supernatural by your bloody sky. Raging against all that is and can't be. You are the canary in the coal mine of the world’s nightmare. The only hope for a spirit to close its eyes. Songbirds~

You awake in a moon pool, an iron coin tucked into your pocket and the fading dream of an endless cave behind you.Love's fortune sketches your history in broad strokes. Do what you will with it. It makes no difference in this life.

Berserker
The smiling beast is pinned to the dark side of the moon. He gave you the horns upon your head.
When you defeat someone in combat, add advantage to attack and damage for the rest of the scene as you become more beastly.
If one of your horns breaks, you enter beast mode and perform an impossible feat.
You smell emotions.
Your eyes see in total darkness.

Black Mage
After petition and plea and beg, your personal demon has acquiesced, allowing you a glimpse of their intensity.
You have access to the Demon Hand (page 70).
You speak the language of Oblivion.
Your tongue is forked and sensitive to smells.
Add advantage to Passion rolls.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 23/06/2026

Just posted two writing things: one is a short rant about season 2 of marathon and the other is an essay I'm working on about eating bugs as a kid. Go check them out~

Link: https://www.patreon.com/snowttrpg/posts/short-rant-about-161867184

If you're here from youtube or a free member of the patreon, this is a preview of the script for my next video, going live this Saturday. Consider donating a dollar to this artist's conservation fund so she can buy some taco bell and maybe take a day off <3

We’re a few weeks into season 2. I have put 100 hours into the game on steam and 400 on PS5. I have played this game a lot. I don’t have a lot of credentials beyond this: I am a game designer and I love this game. I have written thousands of words about this game already. Everything I say here comes from the fact that I love this game. My goal here is to be annoying and offer my suggestions for what is wrong and how to fix it, based on that love. I believe if I can show you the experiences I have that have led to 500 hours of my life, then you can see where I’m coming from. To that end, I’m also attempting for every suggestion to use an already existing system within the game.

The greatest feeling in this game is starting with a free kit and seeing where it ends up after 3-4 runs. Or taking your best gear and getting a 4-6 run streak before losing it. Getting to know those guns and that kit, getting used to it, and then losing it. In a game that gives you SO MUCH STUFF, this is winning to me. This is Doing Well. This is the intended outcome of learning the game’s systems.

With all this in mind, let’s dive in.

Link: https://www.tumblr.com/secretsnowclub/820222857848160256/i-guess-at-some-point-you-just-die

i guess at some point you just die

(this is an essay im working on)

I guess at some point you just stop eating bugs. I can’t say when or how. Or if there’s a why. One day you and your friend share a worm between you (it’s hot outside, too hot for skin, sky a painful blue, creek is begging for rain while trees hold their breath) and the next thing you know, you’re 34, and you can’t talk about it anymore. You think eating bugs is normal. They did it in the Lion King. Y’know, you were a kid. That’s what kids do. But when you bring it up, even couching it as a “weird thing you did a long time ago,” everyone is, like, “no, ew, gross, you’re a mutant, time to die.” Public execution at next light.

But I don’t know when I stopped or why. We never liked eating the bugs. It just happened. Slime and crunch. Bleugh. I would never do that now. I’d gag. I can’t remember if I did it then. And it’s not like we did it all the time, just more than once. And it wasn’t a dare or anything like that. Y’know, you punch his shoulder and egg him on to do something you’d never, ever do, like, poke the dead animal, or break into that abandoned building, or run away from his stepfather, disappearing into the night. But it wasn’t like that. Like, maybe at first we flirted with it as a dare. Haha, wouldn’t it be funny if? But the memories aren’t like that. I don’t remember the first time or the last, but it wasn’t like that. You’d just be trawling through the creek, hips wet, shirts soaked and wrapped around the scalp, and you’d see a little trawler on the water, scoop it up and down it goes. Sure, we’d laugh, or even say “ew.” But no one really meant anything. The eating didn’t mean much. Nothing really did.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 22/06/2026

Tomorrow on the blog! Part one of me walking through the world building that led to Songbirds 3e, focusing primarily on all the various maps I made that led to it! patreon.com/c/snowttrpg

A black and white pixel map of The Cage, my setting.

A pixelated map in the style of super mario brothers.

a collage map of my setting, mostly unfinished

a hex map of my setting from over 10 years ago

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 19/06/2026

my four biggest artistic inspirations

Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 18/06/2026

6 years is a long time actually

A screenshot of my Youtube subscriber count which is at 15,073. There is a major jump around 2023.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 15/06/2026

doing a community gaming event for anyone who wants to hang and play marathon. we're going to the lose everything factory to find the depths of human greed.

Marathon Gaming. When? Saturday 6/20 at 7pm cst. Where? Snow's discord: https://discord.gg/jNrFuSSgsx. Join and find a trio, lose all your gear in cryo, farm for gear, and find a new low in life.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 14/06/2026

Hit 600 members on the patreon. If you're a free member, you should consider donating $1 for a bit :) also a pic of me from yesterday patreon.com/c/snowttrpg

I made a wish for you but I don't know if it worked. This is an excerpt from a piece of fiction I just posted.

This is an excerpt from another piece of short fiction. You can read it on the patreon. :)

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 10/06/2026

new video this saturday~

A screenshot of my new video on youtube, ROMCOM vs Divine Hammer, releasing on Saturday.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 09/06/2026

Big week on the blog and it's only tuesday: - first video commentary talking about my very first youtube video - some writing - Separation of Church and State archive post Go check them out and maybe throw me a few bucks <3 www.patreon.com/c/snowttrpg

This was originally published August 5th 2025. It still stands.

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I used to have two reddit accounts. One where I was a boy writing about my gonzo Dungeons and Dragons setting. And one where I was a girl that got paid an OK rate to be your girlfriend for an hour at a time. I did this both to microdose being a girl when I didn’t feel ready to come out, and to supplement my non-existant income while I was in college because I wanted to get painfully drunk while listening to jazz with my friends at the Green Mill on the weekends.

When I wasn’t writing about the ocean of blood in the mouth of a giant that births red dragons, folks were paying me to act as their loving partner. We’d have phone sex, and sext, and play video games late into the night. Sometimes I would meet these people, but only once did it end in letting them fuck me. All facilitated throu

I'm writing to you from the future. The speakers are buzzing. There is very little light and not much to do.

We play these games. They're called Forever Games. It's part of a movement called Forever Art. People dreamed of this in the 21st century. Now it is a way of life.

Forever Art is something that grows with the artist and thus with you. A Forever Artist will start a project when they are young, just out of schooling. The world just asks you provide something of use to it in order for the world to provide for you. Art is enough for some.

I work a Nothing Job. These are jobs that do nothing but fill time. I carry things from one spot to another. I think we make doors, but all I see are boxes. The building I work in is the length of the planet and twice as thick. I don't know what that means or where she goes.

the mythology of anti-sisyphus commentary video

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 04/06/2026

here's the four i've been thinking about just today

Against the Apocalypse by Oleander Garden

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 26/05/2026

Snow day! My most recent projects are on sale. 1/2 off! Go grab some of the best stuff I've ever written right now, including Songbirds 3e! itch.io/s/186467/the...

little advert poster for my "Snow Day in spring" sale!

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 25/05/2026

this game has me in a chokehold

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 24/05/2026

I have a sale for my most recent writing. Go check it out now <3 itch.io/s/186467/the...

The sale includes Lilancholy, Songbirds, Melancholy Island, Soul Cemetery, Letters for Juno, warmth attracts cold bodies, and Kill Jane Doe.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 24/05/2026

The three thumbnails for the new youtube video. Go check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=39mr...

a static background that says "starting over on youtube at 33"

a blurred crowd with one person highlighted, the caption says "where do I belong"

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 21/05/2026

im listening to mom jeans.

a screenshot of me listening to "death cup" by mom jeans.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 15/05/2026

This week I talk about some themes of Jakey's ROMCOM and the M. Sisters debut Divine Hammer. These two things have stuck in my head for different reasons, and it turns out they are both entwined with the idea of authenticity and if it even exists in the first place. www.patreon.com/posts/romcom...

The cover of Divine hammer features a gored woman in a basement with harsh red font.

The cover of ROMCOM is vibrant red with white text and scribbles.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 11/05/2026

My latest video is having the desired effect. NOW YOU CAN DECIDE: am I an artist? or am I a disgusting faggot pervert? watch now and leave your mark on my little life. youtu.be/BzDfmchiE3Q

youtube comment reads: that's hot. you're hot. there is something indescribable about using a melee weapon in what is primarily a shooter. there is a tense vulnerability in every movement, as every step towards the enemy is loaded with the same desperate aggression as a bullet.

youtube comment says: when you start throwwing 3rd party things in, specificially your association between satisfaction of killing ingame being derived from realism thats captivated through the use of irl gore, it feels a lot less like poetry and more just like a weird gross monologue. that specific line was kind of disgusting. this doesn't really come across as artistic expression, and more of just a creepy tangent of how youre self inserting into the game with strange underlying erotic tones that dont really contribute at all and just add to make it kind of repulsive. not to say that youre necessarily a bad writer, i don't know any of your work. this video is just not good at all.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 08/05/2026

Killer write up and analysis both of OSR-critiques of storygames and of BitD as a book/system. This part bothers me because I see questions like this used as way to ignore entire principles and ideas of design/writing that aren't exactly what folks consider The Right Way.

Misha briefly catches this--"are we just using these wrong?"--and worries the three of them are professional designers who undervalue ideas because they have so many of their own.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 06/05/2026

I made a zine for bungie's marathon <3 it's got a big ol' essay in it talking about the game and how cool it is, plus a bunch of in-game photography because the maps are so gorgeous. i love this game. snowttrpg.itch.io/kill-jane-doe

A vertical slice of Outpost, the third map for Marathon.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 04/05/2026

Kill Jane Doe is a dive into @marathonthegame.bungie.net. It's got in-game photography and a ton of writing. You should give it a sniff. Give it a nudge. Flip it over with your paws and see if there's any bugs under it. snowttrpg.itch.io/kill-jane-doe

A tall vertical photo of an anamlous body on Dire Marsh. At the top is a quote from Kill Jane Doe.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 03/05/2026

It feels good to kill people~ snowttrpg.itch.io/kill-jane-doe

A vertical photo featuring Recon from Marathon, along with a quote from Kill Jane Doe.

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