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Quote of the Day : Hey guys, if you unscramble Oberon, you get Bonero!
(Jem)
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Chinese Oral was bad today, at least everyone else thought it was hard, but not to worry, I'm not going to run through the school gunning down helpless students in my fury (Though I will be very tempted to do so if I dent my Chinese O-Level because of it, and I happen to locate an old Soviet munitions dump with RPDs in it.)
If all turns out well (Or unwell, depending on your perspective), someone, somewhere will notice the title, think I'm another insane Asian teenager who'll go do a Seung-Hui Cho and shoot, maim and kill random innocent bystanders like that Japanese guy who I can't remember the name of.
Of course, that someone somewhere will probably call the police or something of the like to stop Columbine III, and I'll probably be arrested and severely interrogated like one girl who pretending to be a crazed gunman(gunwoman, gunperson?) to get more hits on her site.
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Call of Duty 4
The problem is though, I am a crazed gunman. In COD4 at least. Ask all the walls I filled with lead.
I managed to convince my brother to split the cost of buying COD4 for PC, and while I can only run the thing at Low setting, the graphics are still looking plenty l33t to me, and it doesn't lag. And before anyone else asks, unless I'm *really* motivated to go for some reason, I'm not paying to play COD4 at a LAN center.
My first hours on the multiplayer were quite miserable though. Perhaps I shouldn't have entered a 24 player free-for-all map at level 1 when everyone else was using P90's and Martyrdom (which is basically being as cheap as a two dollar whore) on a server I had 300 ping on.
Things started to sort themselves out after I got my RPD and stuck to team games, which is not to say easier, since with team games when one side is dominating, you get carpet bombed every 15 seconds.
Eventually I found a Singaporean server (YES!!), though my team got owned so bad by this guy called g0dspeed that we were dead again before our bodies from our previous deaths turned cold. I now have a new respect for MP5's with silencers and the UAV Jammer perk.
The Spetnaz winning tune (Their anthem I presume) is pretty darn cool!
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Almost beat the crap out of Adhitya today. I basically lifted by the collar till Sam Chou pulled me away before I got started. He's got an annoying as fuck tendency to add useless/offensive/annoying/plain stupid things into someone else's conversations, like those forum trolls you always want to brain with an ice cream scoop, but never get the chance to. I was pretty cheesed off and tired after the floorball game today, I was dealing with Kevin who was angry with me for hurting his thumb because he punched me and cracked it, so yeah, by the time Adhitya came over to be the social pariah he is, I was ready to break backs and snap necks.
Saturday 28 June 2008
Monday 23 June 2008
Its the End of the Dream For Now...
For me (School holidays just ended), for France (Booted out of the Euro at the group stage, scoring just one goal), and probably for Italy (Spain will beat them, you'll see).
While I don't actually have any homework to complete now (None that I could find anyhow), as you can see I'm continuing my tradition of staying up the first night before school starts again. I should name this ceremony. Suggestions anyone?
We were supposed to watch Get Smart on Friday, but Bryant made the fatal mistake of returning home first, and getting held back by his mum. So there I was, stuck at AMK hub, regretting not checking the 5+ messages he sent me telling me that he went home first.
So I think to myself "I'm young, I'm all dressed up, I got money, and I've got time". So what do I do? Well, I traveled all the way to Paradiz for a solitary LAN session. Intended to play COD4 online, but the first place I went to couldn't get online for some reason. So I toyed around with CNC3 for awhile. Its true, all CNC games degenerate into mAjOR tANk rushes. Not that that isn't fun in itself. After playing Dawn of War for so long, its nice for a Yuri's Revenge veteran like me to finally be able to run over enemy infantry with vehicles.
After an hour I finally gave up mowing down NOD base after NOD base with Mammoth tanks, and decided to hop over to the next LAN shop to see if COD4 worked online there.
Joy indeed, it worked there. And even if the rest of the guys hadn't failed to get Get Smart tickets because they were sold out, I wouldn't have moved my ass from that seat. Turns out, its not that hard online. With a new account, I was beating people with Martyrdom perks. I was having so much fun *not* getting owned that I didn't notice Sam, Bryant and Shen Shin appear right beside me till Sam said "Cheng Heng, it doesn't count if you play against yourself"
We managed to find outside competition in the guys next to us, so it became a 4 vs 4 match between the two camps. I was worried they'd be horrifically good like some other COD4 players at LAN shops I've encountered, but the worries disappeared after the first minute. We maxed out the score cap at 75 kills, they were still meandering around 20. They gave up after awhile, I would have too. I'm not wasting precious time and money getting owned.
I gave up on the Last Stand perk. Hardly ever kill anyone with that, so I traded it in for Deep Impact to shoot through walls. Which means everything from doors to stone barricades when used with an RPD. Finally broke my streak of losing every team match I play in. Sam is frightening when he's mad, almost broke a hole in the table when he slammed it after I shot him out of a window with the mounted SAW at sniper range.
Highlight of it all though, was the final match. Because Jem arrived later, we had five people, so one team always had one more player than the other. And because all the computers he used hanged for some strange unknown reason, we allowed him to use an already existing account. He picked one that already was at level 50 at least, so he was running round with every perk and just about every weapon unlocked.
So as we connected to the Crash map...
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Me : Right, so I'm a commie, Sam's a commie...Bryant is a Brit... Shen Shin is SAS as well...Jem is SAS...Wait, thats not good...
Sam : HELP ME BABY JEBUS!
Shen Shin : You're screwed Sam! You're SCREWED!
Me (muttering) : You know, I AM still here...
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And I did believe that Sam and I were going to get our butts handed to us. We were outnumbered and outgunned since every time Jem died he handed a Barrett rifle to either Bryant or Shen Shin, so all three of them were holding guns that were unlocked at level 49. Till I heard that.
Buoyed by Sam's immense belief in my gaming ability and Shen Shin's overwhelmingly optimistic view on our odds of winning, I rampaged my way to a 3 kill lead. Sam now suddenly looking like Duke Nukem himself had decided to join our team, obligingly acted as bait to lure the three into my sights, or basically just watching the door while we staked out in a building.
They couldn't get me with their Barrett rifles often since they were too busy taking cover from me and Sam, not that cover helped with Deep Impact. We won that match by 40 points. I got 18 kills, double that of anyone else. All three of them looked like they just got beaten by a chicken in Tic Tac Toe.
With the Chinese O-Level oral coming up, and the SPA not long after, its kinda hard to look forward to returning to school. Need something to look forward to. Like another LAN session.
While I don't actually have any homework to complete now (None that I could find anyhow), as you can see I'm continuing my tradition of staying up the first night before school starts again. I should name this ceremony. Suggestions anyone?
We were supposed to watch Get Smart on Friday, but Bryant made the fatal mistake of returning home first, and getting held back by his mum. So there I was, stuck at AMK hub, regretting not checking the 5+ messages he sent me telling me that he went home first.
So I think to myself "I'm young, I'm all dressed up, I got money, and I've got time". So what do I do? Well, I traveled all the way to Paradiz for a solitary LAN session. Intended to play COD4 online, but the first place I went to couldn't get online for some reason. So I toyed around with CNC3 for awhile. Its true, all CNC games degenerate into mAjOR tANk rushes. Not that that isn't fun in itself. After playing Dawn of War for so long, its nice for a Yuri's Revenge veteran like me to finally be able to run over enemy infantry with vehicles.
After an hour I finally gave up mowing down NOD base after NOD base with Mammoth tanks, and decided to hop over to the next LAN shop to see if COD4 worked online there.
Joy indeed, it worked there. And even if the rest of the guys hadn't failed to get Get Smart tickets because they were sold out, I wouldn't have moved my ass from that seat. Turns out, its not that hard online. With a new account, I was beating people with Martyrdom perks. I was having so much fun *not* getting owned that I didn't notice Sam, Bryant and Shen Shin appear right beside me till Sam said "Cheng Heng, it doesn't count if you play against yourself"
We managed to find outside competition in the guys next to us, so it became a 4 vs 4 match between the two camps. I was worried they'd be horrifically good like some other COD4 players at LAN shops I've encountered, but the worries disappeared after the first minute. We maxed out the score cap at 75 kills, they were still meandering around 20. They gave up after awhile, I would have too. I'm not wasting precious time and money getting owned.
I gave up on the Last Stand perk. Hardly ever kill anyone with that, so I traded it in for Deep Impact to shoot through walls. Which means everything from doors to stone barricades when used with an RPD. Finally broke my streak of losing every team match I play in. Sam is frightening when he's mad, almost broke a hole in the table when he slammed it after I shot him out of a window with the mounted SAW at sniper range.
Highlight of it all though, was the final match. Because Jem arrived later, we had five people, so one team always had one more player than the other. And because all the computers he used hanged for some strange unknown reason, we allowed him to use an already existing account. He picked one that already was at level 50 at least, so he was running round with every perk and just about every weapon unlocked.
So as we connected to the Crash map...
----
Me : Right, so I'm a commie, Sam's a commie...Bryant is a Brit... Shen Shin is SAS as well...Jem is SAS...Wait, thats not good...
Sam : HELP ME BABY JEBUS!
Shen Shin : You're screwed Sam! You're SCREWED!
Me (muttering) : You know, I AM still here...
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And I did believe that Sam and I were going to get our butts handed to us. We were outnumbered and outgunned since every time Jem died he handed a Barrett rifle to either Bryant or Shen Shin, so all three of them were holding guns that were unlocked at level 49. Till I heard that.
Buoyed by Sam's immense belief in my gaming ability and Shen Shin's overwhelmingly optimistic view on our odds of winning, I rampaged my way to a 3 kill lead. Sam now suddenly looking like Duke Nukem himself had decided to join our team, obligingly acted as bait to lure the three into my sights, or basically just watching the door while we staked out in a building.
They couldn't get me with their Barrett rifles often since they were too busy taking cover from me and Sam, not that cover helped with Deep Impact. We won that match by 40 points. I got 18 kills, double that of anyone else. All three of them looked like they just got beaten by a chicken in Tic Tac Toe.
With the Chinese O-Level oral coming up, and the SPA not long after, its kinda hard to look forward to returning to school. Need something to look forward to. Like another LAN session.
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Strange New Directions...
The holidays have passed in a haze (But what's new there?). Haven't exactly finished all that we were supposed to do for holiday homework (Again, what's new there).
Strange new directions were all over this month of June.
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CAD webcomic
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Ctrl-Alt-Del has decided to head in a very, very different direction from its easy and light-hearted humour. Tim Buckley has decided to add a very serious side to it, by having Lilah have a miscarriage (*GASP*). Take a look for yourself, if you haven't seen it already When I first saw it, the first thing I thought was "WTF?" The next was "WTF!" The rest were pretty much the same. Apparently, I wasn't the only one to think that, the guys on the CAD forums hit 16 pages of posts in a single day.
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Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
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My little secret pastime when no one's looking that no one knows. Anyone who has my MSN that is... (And no Sam, contrary to what you believe, it is *NOT*, I repeat, *NOT* hentai).
In the year that I haven't touched it, its storyline has decided it had to become even more confusing. It turns out the Syaoran and Sakura at the beginning were both clones of the originals, Sakura has now taken to wearing Gothic clothing and becoming all ice-queen like, the actual Syaoran turns out to be the son of the *original* Li Syaoran and *original* Sakura Kinomoto from the CCS series, and that Syaoran isn't his actual name, which clears up a lot of the timeline plot holes actually.
But it's even more creepy since he's fallen in love with a girl that doesn't just look like, but looks identical like his mother. Made me blow out a few neurons in horror, that's for sure...
CLAMP is also now trying to make a giant multiverse of all their series with Yuuko as the link it all being the Dimension Witch and all.
Its all probably old news to a die-hard fan (Which I am not), but I've built quite a reputation for being a lagger.
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Gee whiz, and here I was worrying that my...Wait, never mind, I said nothing. You didn't see anything! *Lowers self into manhole*
Oh yes, if you can, go out and catch Kung Fu Panda. It follows the life of Po, an overweight panda who is stuck looking after a noodle shop with his father (Who is a goose, don't ask me how that works out), but wants to learn Kung Fu, and join the Furious Five, a group of the best Kung Fu fighters in China, comprising of a tigress, a snake, a monkey, a stork and a praying mantis. Not going to write more because I don't want to spoil it, and also because I am a lazy ass.
My favourite line was this one
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Father : Son! You had the noodle dream! Oh! Perhaps it is the time to tell you the secret ingredient to our secret soup, which I learnt from my father! *Hugs portrait of an goose* Who learnt it from his father! *Hugs portrait of another goose* Who learnt it from one of his friends after beating him in a mahjong game. *Points to a portrait of a pig*
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Or perhaps this
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Po : Omigod! Omigod! OMIGOD! YOU'RE ALL SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOUR ACTION FIGURES! Well, except for you Mantis, you're about the same size.
Mantis : (Insulted screech)
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Strange new directions were all over this month of June.
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CAD webcomic
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Ctrl-Alt-Del has decided to head in a very, very different direction from its easy and light-hearted humour. Tim Buckley has decided to add a very serious side to it, by having Lilah have a miscarriage (*GASP*). Take a look for yourself, if you haven't seen it already When I first saw it, the first thing I thought was "WTF?" The next was "WTF!" The rest were pretty much the same. Apparently, I wasn't the only one to think that, the guys on the CAD forums hit 16 pages of posts in a single day.
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Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
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My little secret pastime when no one's looking that no one knows. Anyone who has my MSN that is... (And no Sam, contrary to what you believe, it is *NOT*, I repeat, *NOT* hentai).
In the year that I haven't touched it, its storyline has decided it had to become even more confusing. It turns out the Syaoran and Sakura at the beginning were both clones of the originals, Sakura has now taken to wearing Gothic clothing and becoming all ice-queen like, the actual Syaoran turns out to be the son of the *original* Li Syaoran and *original* Sakura Kinomoto from the CCS series, and that Syaoran isn't his actual name, which clears up a lot of the timeline plot holes actually.
But it's even more creepy since he's fallen in love with a girl that doesn't just look like, but looks identical like his mother. Made me blow out a few neurons in horror, that's for sure...
CLAMP is also now trying to make a giant multiverse of all their series with Yuuko as the link it all being the Dimension Witch and all.
Its all probably old news to a die-hard fan (Which I am not), but I've built quite a reputation for being a lagger.
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Gee whiz, and here I was worrying that my...Wait, never mind, I said nothing. You didn't see anything! *Lowers self into manhole*
Oh yes, if you can, go out and catch Kung Fu Panda. It follows the life of Po, an overweight panda who is stuck looking after a noodle shop with his father (Who is a goose, don't ask me how that works out), but wants to learn Kung Fu, and join the Furious Five, a group of the best Kung Fu fighters in China, comprising of a tigress, a snake, a monkey, a stork and a praying mantis. Not going to write more because I don't want to spoil it, and also because I am a lazy ass.
My favourite line was this one
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Father : Son! You had the noodle dream! Oh! Perhaps it is the time to tell you the secret ingredient to our secret soup, which I learnt from my father! *Hugs portrait of an goose* Who learnt it from his father! *Hugs portrait of another goose* Who learnt it from one of his friends after beating him in a mahjong game. *Points to a portrait of a pig*
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Or perhaps this
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Po : Omigod! Omigod! OMIGOD! YOU'RE ALL SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOUR ACTION FIGURES! Well, except for you Mantis, you're about the same size.
Mantis : (Insulted screech)
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Monday 2 June 2008
This is NARNIA!
Chris, Sam Wang and Mark invited me to watch Prince Caspian with them since they had an extra ticket and pale Sam couldn't make it. And they've all changed quite a bit since I last saw them, which was... late last year I think. Mark cut his hair short (Probably the reason why he wore the hood), Chris lost 20kg (WTF?!?!), and Sam Wang, well, okay, he still looks the same.
Anyway, we waited at Chris's place while waiting for Sam, before he eventually told us to meet him at Lido, where we went to Pepper Steak for lunch. If that place wasn't so damned expensive, I'd got there everyday. So we chatted as we ate, they asked me what Sam got up to in school and weasel out his results, I asked them what life was like in an IS, so on and so forth.
Since the thing was a fund raising event by Chris's church (I think), it came bundled with a couple of things, a Narnia goodie bag for one. Mark and I tried fruitlessly to play the kazoo that came with it. I'm sure it was broken, some 5 year old kid behind me figured out how to play it.
And I finally found another person who doesn't mind talking in the middle of a movie. Sam Wang and I were going on non stop about how buggy Soulstorm was (He's trying to find a crack for it, so we can pass the disc around like a hookah) and how the kids in Narnia have a SHITLOAD of plot armour. I mean, how the hell does a 14 year old girl like Susan dash into the middle of a melee fight with nought but a bow, and beat full grown soldiers to death with it?
Anyway, there was one scene where they showed a close of Susan in one of them medieval dresses...
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Sam : Hehe, clevage.
Chris : Don't go on much do you?
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And another one
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(After Lucy wakes up from her dream)
Me : See, thats what happens when you use marijuana leaves for kindling.
Chris : So what about the rest of their dreams?
Me : Well...Lucy's was the only one that could be rated PG.
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Sam and I came up with a couple suggestions to be inserted into the movie. During the movie, much to the chagrin of Mark and Chris. It should be renamed Chronicles of Narnia : When Nature Strikes Back!
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(Scene with the Telmarine king Miraz after losing the duel, kneeling on the floor)
Miraz : This is madness!
Peter : Madness? This...is...NARNIA!
(Kicks him into the giant pit the centaurs made on their way out)
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(Aslan opens a portal to transport Telmarines who want to leave Narnia back to their original home, the real world, by opening a hole in a tree. Which coincidentally leads off a cliff)
Villager : What if it leads us to our doom?!
Peter : We'll go
(The four step through, go through to the other side, and fall off the cliff)
Aslan : Wait a minute...
(Leafs through Portal Opening For Dummies)
Aslan : *Facepalm*
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Well, despite Aslan bringing all the trees to life to fight the Telmarines in a very Helm's Deep like manner, we all felt the pressing need to see a battle of epic proportions. And where does one find that? LAN of course. So we all took a train to Dhoby Ghout to get to Paradiz.
Unfortunately, the weather decided to be asshat and rain, but we all stoically marched forward with the single minded aim of reaching the LAN center at Paradiz. Okay, Sam Wang had an umbrella, but in the end, he put it away so he could suffer with us like brudders! Or Communists, as Chris mentioned.
Bryant came along as well, but we gave up on Dark Crusade there since only Tau and Necrons were available, so we just played COD4 instead since Chris had bad experiences with Quake 4. Never play with pale Sam on your first time, its very, very demoralizing.
Anyway, we waited at Chris's place while waiting for Sam, before he eventually told us to meet him at Lido, where we went to Pepper Steak for lunch. If that place wasn't so damned expensive, I'd got there everyday. So we chatted as we ate, they asked me what Sam got up to in school and weasel out his results, I asked them what life was like in an IS, so on and so forth.
Since the thing was a fund raising event by Chris's church (I think), it came bundled with a couple of things, a Narnia goodie bag for one. Mark and I tried fruitlessly to play the kazoo that came with it. I'm sure it was broken, some 5 year old kid behind me figured out how to play it.
And I finally found another person who doesn't mind talking in the middle of a movie. Sam Wang and I were going on non stop about how buggy Soulstorm was (He's trying to find a crack for it, so we can pass the disc around like a hookah) and how the kids in Narnia have a SHITLOAD of plot armour. I mean, how the hell does a 14 year old girl like Susan dash into the middle of a melee fight with nought but a bow, and beat full grown soldiers to death with it?
Anyway, there was one scene where they showed a close of Susan in one of them medieval dresses...
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Sam : Hehe, clevage.
Chris : Don't go on much do you?
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And another one
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(After Lucy wakes up from her dream)
Me : See, thats what happens when you use marijuana leaves for kindling.
Chris : So what about the rest of their dreams?
Me : Well...Lucy's was the only one that could be rated PG.
-----
Sam and I came up with a couple suggestions to be inserted into the movie. During the movie, much to the chagrin of Mark and Chris. It should be renamed Chronicles of Narnia : When Nature Strikes Back!
----
(Scene with the Telmarine king Miraz after losing the duel, kneeling on the floor)
Miraz : This is madness!
Peter : Madness? This...is...NARNIA!
(Kicks him into the giant pit the centaurs made on their way out)
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(Aslan opens a portal to transport Telmarines who want to leave Narnia back to their original home, the real world, by opening a hole in a tree. Which coincidentally leads off a cliff)
Villager : What if it leads us to our doom?!
Peter : We'll go
(The four step through, go through to the other side, and fall off the cliff)
Aslan : Wait a minute...
(Leafs through Portal Opening For Dummies)
Aslan : *Facepalm*
-----
Well, despite Aslan bringing all the trees to life to fight the Telmarines in a very Helm's Deep like manner, we all felt the pressing need to see a battle of epic proportions. And where does one find that? LAN of course. So we all took a train to Dhoby Ghout to get to Paradiz.
Unfortunately, the weather decided to be asshat and rain, but we all stoically marched forward with the single minded aim of reaching the LAN center at Paradiz. Okay, Sam Wang had an umbrella, but in the end, he put it away so he could suffer with us like brudders! Or Communists, as Chris mentioned.
Bryant came along as well, but we gave up on Dark Crusade there since only Tau and Necrons were available, so we just played COD4 instead since Chris had bad experiences with Quake 4. Never play with pale Sam on your first time, its very, very demoralizing.
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