You can choose a super power, but the first person to reply can name a side effect.
You can choose a super power, but the first person to reply can name a side effect.
I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
Chadus_Maximus @lemm.ee Stop any confrontation by yelling "enough!"
39 0 ReplyGreenknight777 @lemmy.ca Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.
73 0 Replyrichieadler @lemmy.myserv.one Finally a plausible power.
20 0 ReplyEylrid @lemmy.world It gets the job done
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NucleusAdumbens @lemmy.world The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff
31 0 Replymidorale @lemmy.villa-straylight.social It only works when your eyes are closed.
42 0 ReplyDagnet @lemmy.world Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.
Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect
22 0 ReplyNucleusAdumbens @lemmy.world Oh man that's a good one. So much for driving all those vacant Ferraris
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Piecemakers @lemmy.world What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...
tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.
21 0 ReplyTaleya @aussie.zone Air particles also frozen
12 0 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social This is far more insidious than it seems.
That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.
10 0 ReplyZozano @aussie.zone Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.
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U de Recife @literature.cafe Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
29 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.
50 0 ReplyManjuuLemmy @lemmy.world They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.
17 0 ReplyU de Recife @literature.cafe Hahaha. You got me!
I'll be like Lassie (the classical trope of the main character charging setting every episode).
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bionicjoey @lemmy.ca All of the violence and hatred that would have been present around you gets redirected somewhere else in the world. The more discord there was in a place before you arrived, the harder the redirection hits its new location. You occupy a bubble of peace but outside of it things get even worse. You always hear about this and see the consequences of it but you are never able to directly observe it because whenever you try, the discord gets redirected somewhere else.
8 0 ReplyU de Recife @literature.cafe You cursed me!
I especially (dis)like the fact that I may occupy a bubble of peace, but at the same time knowing things are getting worse.
You reduced me to either an obnoxious self-entitled prick, or a pathetic loser.
Thanks a lot. The world now hates me...
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subignition @kbin.social The ability to speak and translate between any languages
28 1 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.
46 1 Replysubignition @kbin.social First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor
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ape_arms @lemmy.world The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.
25 0 ReplySunroc @lemmy.world You were born without fingertips and can't do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.
31 1 Replyelectrogamerman @feddit.de Not to be that guy, but one can still get a passport without finger tips, or arms for that matter.
10 0 Replykratoz29 @lemm.ee No one will give you a passport.
Damn, you really hate him don't you?
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Afflictedlife @lemmy.ml The rest of your body strongly attracts cheeto dust within a 1 mile radius
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DrPop @lemmy.one The power to be happy.
24 0 Replymorphballganon @mtgzone.com Only while asleep
28 0 ReplyAngryAnusHornets @lemmy.world Permanently Deleted
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hstde @feddit.de But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.
13 0 Replyswnt @feddit.de Well that's a nice side effect actually
8 0 Reply*Tagger* @lemmy.world Seems like a win win
6 0 Replybionicjoey @lemmy.ca Happier than yourself*
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idunnololz @lemmy.world You make everyone around you miserable
4 0 ReplyEtterra @lemmy.world Mostly worth it.
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GuerrillaGrain @lemmy.world *For others
4 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk But only when you are naked. Otherwise you'll be miserable. Sorry this got kinky real quick
2 0 Replyfrokie @lemmy.world Already to too close to irl
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Killercat103 @infosec.pub But only at the expense of others...
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ @yiffit.net Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤
23 0 ReplyBrokewood @lemmy.world Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.
34 0 ReplyTaleya @aussie.zone Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you'd better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium
13 2 Replywhoisearth @lemmy.ca You get type 1 diabetes
5 0 ReplyChadus_Maximus @lemm.ee You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.
2 0 Reply🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ @yiffit.net "Bullshit, dude."
"I'll show you..." Downs an entire bottle of Viagra, maintains an erection for exactly 3 hours 59 minutes
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Dradious @lemmy.world Immunity to internet-reply-based side effects
20 0 ReplyBluerat @lemmy.world But Everyone loves you. Oh... wait....
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Tikiporch @lemmy.world How bout the power... to move you.
18 0 ReplyFiskFisk33 @startrek.website You keep accidentally making random people's heads explode.
14 0 Replydonslaught @unilem.org I did not mean to blow your mind.
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dutchkimble @lemy.lol I'd rather be able to kill a yak from 200 yards away
6 0 ReplyTikiporch @lemmy.world With mind bullets? That's telekinesis, Kyle...
5 0 ReplyRagingHungryPanda @lemm.ee But it has to be exactly 200.00 yards away. Any deviation and you can't
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Piecemakers @lemmy.world But only through the power of fucking teeeamworrrk
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Afflictedlife @lemmy.ml The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity
18 0 Replyboeman @lemmy.world It's all rotten.
27 1 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.
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FooBarrington @lemmy.world It manifests as a storm cloud, raining the food down over a large area over a short period of time.
12 0 Replydumbluck @midwest.social I've seen that movie
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xigoi @lemmy.sdf.org Having this ability will cause you to lose self-control and become morbidly obese.
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StorageAware @lemmings.world Ability to controls technology with my mind.
16 0 ReplyFiskFisk33 @startrek.website you are extra susceptible to suggestion, don't turn off your adblocker ;)
25 0 ReplyStorageAware @lemmings.world Feel like it would still be worth it
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TDCN @feddit.dk Or you get zaped back in time to the 18th hundreds
2 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk You now also know absolutely nothing about tech
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orangeNgreen @lemmy.world OP I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.
16 0 ReplyNucleusAdumbens @lemmy.world Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they'd make after taking your mom/dad on a date
23 0 Replyxylogx @lemmy.world First commentor missed the Cassandra side effect: you can do nothing to change it and no one believes you.
10 0 Replysharpiemarker @feddit.de You can see a person's next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.
6 0 ReplyChadus_Maximus @lemm.ee Side effect: you're never prepared for the move they will be making next.
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Qyuzu @lemdro.id The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!
16 0 ReplyBluerat @lemmy.world You can only do it with extreme violence
41 0 Replydonslaught @unilem.org To use one of the all-time greatest movie quotes: "Put the cookie down!!"
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#!/usr/bin/woof @lemmy.sdf.org Ability to eliminate others side effects.
14 0 ReplyWakdem @lemmy.world They transfer to you
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Dellyjonut @lemmy.world You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry
14 0 ReplyNucleusAdumbens @lemmy.world Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger
22 0 Replywhoisearth @lemmy.ca When using your power you get uncontrollable diarrhea
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DLSchichtl @lemmy.world Shape-shifting
14 0 ReplyPipps @lemm.ee You keep your original face.
28 0 ReplyDLSchichtl @lemmy.world DLSchichtl-o-pus!
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morphballganon @mtgzone.com Always accompanied by a horrifying metallic scraping sound that can be heard a mile around
15 0 ReplyDLSchichtl @lemmy.world "Old haunted factory outside of town is screaming again..."
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themeatbridge @lemmy.world You feel it, and it hurts as much as you'd imagine rearranging bones should hurt.
9 0 ReplyDLSchichtl @lemmy.world Was it Fringe that had that? I can't remember. I just remember them having to break their own bones to shift.
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FooBarrington @lemmy.world You can shift the shape of your body, but nothing else. Your skin and all surface stuff stays the same.
5 0 ReplyDLSchichtl @lemmy.world Byakuya < Fat Byakuya
EDIT: Bug report! Guess I can't use greater than/less than symbols on Connect
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Zozano @aussie.zone The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time
14 0 Replybean @lemmy.world Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.
29 0 Replyswnt @feddit.de oof
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Eufalconimorph @discuss.tchncs.de Omnipotence!
12 0 ReplyDLSchichtl @lemmy.world Impotence!
22 0 Replys1ndr0m3 @lemmy.world The joke is on you. I'm already impotent!
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lusciousgreen @lemmy.world The power to control gravity at the atomic and cosmic scale
11 0 ReplyLag @lemmy.world You already do, just a very tiny amount.
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DrChickenbeer @artemis.camp The power to change stoplights from red to green (and back again)
10 0 Replyteraflopsweat @lemm.ee But you can only change the light after you’ve gone through it
25 0 Replyxigoi @lemmy.sdf.org You're the only one who is able to see the changes.
Edit: I decided that a superpower which only alters your perception is not really a superpower, so let me improve it: All drivers who have the same eye color as you will be able to see the changed colors. Other drivers will see the original colors. Enjoy!
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Stern @lemmy.world The power to choose my own side effect
8 0 ReplyU de Recife @literature.cafe Exactly. Whatever side-effect is cast upon you, you THINK it was chosen by you. You're 100% sure it was your decision. You're blissfully but unfortunately erroneously way too self-confident.
10 0 ReplyStern @lemmy.world I have a big dick.
5 0 ReplyNoodle07 @lemmy.world You have a way way too big of a dick
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ShortFuse @lemmy.world Free frogurt with your choice of toppings.
8 0 Replybionicjoey @lemmy.ca Potassium Benzoate
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Bizarroland @kbin.social The power to have ghost doctors from the 1750s perform really bad srs on anyone who tries to think of a bad consequence of me having this power.
7 0 Replymorphballganon @mtgzone.com The ghost doctors read "srs" as "serious" and just give me a mild glare
12 0 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social While they slice and dice you
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hstde @feddit.de The ghost doctors have bad eyesight and mistake you for everyone else.
3 0 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social Enjoy your mutilation
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Etterra @lemmy.world I can inflict my current emotional state at will on other people of my choosing.
7 0 ReplyBizarroland @kbin.social Anytime you use this power, immediately afterwards you feel everyone in a half mile radius's feelings at 200% intensity at the same time.
8 1 Replydonslaught @unilem.org That seems like a cascading landslide of horniness.
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legopika @lemmy.blahaj.zone Shape shifting
7 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk But it hurts like hell and you are in pain the entire time you shapeshift
8 0 Replyemptyother @programming.dev Worth it.
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IverCoder @lemm.ee You get testicular cancer
4 1 Replylegopika @lemmy.blahaj.zone Snip snip problem solved!
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mewpichu @lemm.ee The power to send messages to your past self
7 0 ReplyOceanSoap @lemmy.ml Every time your past self reads one of your messages they
looselose the ability to read one word forever.15 1 ReplyDiploRaucous @lemmy.world Like... They just understand a loose definition of the word? :P
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catreadingabook @kbin.social Granted. Unfortunately, it only works when you send yourself hate mail.
4 0 ReplyChadus_Maximus @lemm.ee Granted. Your past self now has the ability to send messages to you!
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TDCN @feddit.dk I will always have full knowledge of everything and know how to do anything
6 0 ReplyRememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world You never get to use the power for your own enjoyment because people will never leave you alone…you will constantly assaulted with questions because everyone knows you have the answers. You have no peace.
8 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk Damn you got me... This sounds horrible
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madnotangry @lemmy.world You become completely physically disabled, almost a complete vegetative state, and can't physically do any of it.
6 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk I'll know how to construct a full exoskeleton with a brain interface and communicate the instructions to someone who can build it for me. Just look at how well Stephen Hawkins fared
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Cam @lemmy.world to turn invisible for as long as one likes
8 2 ReplyRikudou_Sage @lemmings.world You're blind while you're invisible (which is by the way what would actually happen if you had a magical way to turn invisible).
26 0 ReplySynapse @lemmy.world Someone has watch Solar Opposites recently.
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Zeth @lemmy.world But you stink like a skunk every time you turn invisible.
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EdherJr @sh.itjust.works I can summon whatever food and drink I want in the moment
6 0 ReplyHawk @lemmy.dbzer0.com The summoning makes you feel nauseous
7 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk But it'll always appear on the opposite side of earth
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XiELEd @lemmy.world Be able to have multiple save slots, change the outcomes of a timeline then save it within a savefile, and being able to bring items from different savefiles to the others. Would be cool to collect different iterations of games and movies.
6 0 ReplyorangeNgreen @lemmy.world OP Side effect: there’s a 50/50 chance a save slot becomes corrupted.
23 0 ReplyXiELEd @lemmy.world FUUUUUU
1 0 ReplyHolyginz @lemmy.world Question. Is that chance everytime you access that save slot?
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swab148 @lemm.ee The power to teleport 1m forwards.
4 0 ReplyDoctorWhat @kbin.social The object nearest you is also teleported to the same location as you but 1 meter above your head. It could still work in your favor if the object nearest you is a hat!
6 0 ReplyContentConsumer9999 @kbin.social If we count clothes as objects then each time they teleport they'd be butt naked with their underwear on their head.
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dutchkimble @lemy.lol Everything in the whole universe also moves 1m forwards at the same time
6 1 Replycodeskull @ttrpg.network Forwards is relative to the direction the Earth is traveling around the sun.
4 0 Replykablammy @sh.itjust.works Your clothes and anything you are carrying don't teleport with you
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Remy Rose @lemmy.one the power to make plants grow faster
4 0 ReplyYexingTudou @lemmy.ml You age proportionally to the plant until the effect is done.
i.e. make a plant that takes 10 days to grow to maturity grow in the span of 2 days, you age 10 days in those 2 days
10 0 ReplyTaleya @aussie.zone Excess consumption of nutrients rapidly depletes the soil causing biome collapse
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Shapillon @lemmy.world Dying on command.
4 0 ReplyTDCN @feddit.dk But you'll wake up the next day in a someoneelse's body somewhere else on earth knowing nothing of your new bodys past experience language or anything. You can only remember your past life experience. This might not be as bad as I sounds actually. Could be interesting.
6 0 Replydragoness @lemmy.zip This would make a great book
3 0 ReplyShaolinRaiden @lemmy.dbzer0.com Isn't that the plot of Quantum leap?
1 0 ReplyEylrid @lemmy.world Basically Quantum Leap
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Prismaticiris @lemmy.ca Telekinesis.
3 0 ReplyVupperware @lemmy.world In order to manipulate objects with telekinesis, you sever the link between the object and the earths gravitational pull.
Every object you use your power on now has the ability to drift and float away if not strapped down.
This includes, but is not limited to: people, animals, and buildings.
8 0 Replydumbluck @midwest.social That's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Spaghetti_Hitchens @kbin.social Side effect: you have a 25% chance of your pants and underwear being affected instead of your desired target.
3 0 ReplyTheBananaKing @lemmy.world Granted. You also have prostate cancer.
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MTK @lemmy.world Time&space travel
3 0 ReplyEncromion @sh.itjust.works Only one at a time. Every time you travel the universe shoots away from you at millions of miles an hour.
3 0 ReplyLemmyvisitor @lemmy.dbzer0.com that still let's you teleport
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MTK @lemmy.world I think I'll add my own:
You teleport in 1cm units relative to the center of our galaxy, meaning you have to think of xyz of each teleportation and you if you miss caclulate enjoy being dead and in space.
Time is in epoch ms and leaves you in the same spot relative to the center of the galaxy.
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mrbubblesort @kbin.social Shapeshifting
3 0 ReplyPiecemakers @lemmy.world Into any mineral
7 0 Replymrbubblesort @kbin.social Interesting. So I could turn into plutonium or something and blow myself up? :P
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HotsauceHurricane @lemmy.one You have to yell out the OPPOSITE of what you want to turn into.
5 0 Replymrbubblesort @kbin.social Bit easy to game, no? "I want to turn into an anti-XXXXX"
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dipbeneaththelasers @kbin.social You can't control your feet and they always shapeshift to a size that makes your shoes too tight.
3 0 ReplyTywèle [she|her] @lemmy.dbzer0.com Just take off the shoes before.
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HotsauceHurricane @lemmy.one Powe of kicking cures diabetes.
3 0 ReplyFrog-Brawler @kbin.social Kicking causes your legs to fall off.
5 0 ReplyApathy Tree @lemmy.dbzer0.com For babies with type 1 only.
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Astroturfed @lemmy.world Thanos snap that targets right wingers.
3 3 ReplyRikudou_Sage @lemmings.world Only those that aren't racist.
4 0 ReplySwedishFool @lemmy.world The snap makes them even louder and more obnoxious.
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