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I remember when digital cameras first came out. Every one was ‘pumped’, thinking things like ‘I don’t have to take my disposable camera to get developed any more.’ The advent of an affordable digital camera was almost as liberating as when God invented ‘the mp3′ and we didn’t have to buy music any more. We all thought ‘we can capture as many moments as we want, snap all of our friends, and never forget anything for the rest of our lives, and we get to do this by saving money on bullshit like film and going 2 the grocery store to get the film developed.’ (Ppl get rlly excited when they think that their lives’ are becoming ‘better’ while they are ’saving money.’)
Unfortunately, the digital camera experience is no longer authentic. U r just ‘1 of many ppl trying 2 capture life with a camera.’ Ultimately feel like it is a bad thing that so many ppl have the capability of ‘capturing moments 4evr.’
It is sad that the digital camera experience is no longer an ‘authentic one’ because too many people have them. Because too many people have cameras, too many digital images exist. Because so many digital images exist, posted in places like facebooks, blogs, twitpics, and flickrs, all images became less meaningful. This falls in line with the Theory of Authenticity.
(this theory also applies 2 ’so many ppl ruining social networks’, and ’so many fans ruining bands’)
Because so many digital images exist, there is no point in even taking a picture. Whether it is a picture of your friends, family, an artistic shot on your trip to NYC, or an image out the window of the airplane while you are flying, your images are less meaningful. You should stop trying to take pictures. Also feel sad that it’s sooo EZ 2 jam a camera into a phone. Seems less meaningful when you turn a technological item into a ‘combo’, sorta like those DVD player + VHS player ‘combos’ that old people got bc they wanted to make sure that their VHS movies were still ‘useful.’
I honestly feel superior to mainstream point-and-shoot camera owners. Totes h8 ‘mainstream bitches’ who take pix in bars, and then will crop their friends out of the picture just so that they can have a sweet facebook user pic. Also the ‘bros who take pix at concerts and then post them 2 their facebook 2 show how close 2 the band they were.’ Digital Cameras just became ‘too mainstream’ when they became ‘affordable’ for parents to buy for their tween kids as a ’solid birthday/xmas gift.’ Seems like something that ‘frugal, manipulative’ parents would buy for their kids now, wanting their kids to think that they ’spent a lot of money on them, and really sacrificed 4 their happiness.’
S000 tired of ppl thinking ‘making fun of myspace style pix’ is revolutionary comedy.
From what I understand myspace is now a ‘digital graveyard’, and only the blacks, latino gheys, and white tweens who live in rural areas and haven’t received the message that ppl use ‘twitbook’ now.
I seriously think I’m going to ‘destroy’ my point-and-shoot camera [via putting it on ebay] and using money to buy ‘marijuana cigarettes’ and ‘cocaine bumps.’
Really miss the ‘thrill’ of consumer technology when ur on the forefront of it. Like the first time u went to ‘youtube.com’ and searched for something zany and random, and thought 2 urself ‘this is gonna be the start of something…and I’m definitely 1 of the first ppl 2 find out abt it. I’d better tell a bunch of ppl abt it so that they know that they learned it from me.’
Just need 2 admit that I don’t use technology bc it makes my life better–I used it bc it seems to make me ‘kewler’ if I have it 1st.
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FIRST. YES. WOO.
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
http://tinyurl.com/kjrdzc
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‘take a picture, yall’
-the filters
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//////////Reply by kutelilaltgrrl
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
*clap clap clap*
good call bro
good post CRLS
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should i get rid of my SLR too? don’t want to be ‘too mainstream’, must be on the cutting-edge. going to have to get a silver plate camera like ansel adams, to be ‘more authentic’.
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//////////Reply by lainz
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
no. keep the SLR. it’s still kind of alt to have ‘hi-def’ photos. even more alt to have film.
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//////////Reply by Steveo
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
That is some funny ass/true ass shit right there!
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i disagree with your whole post. horrible post carles, YALL
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//////////Reply by Al x
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Eh this where I disagree. Photography was once a legitimate art. With invent of digital cameras and Photoshop now any slightly altbro thinks they have talent and are a ‘photographer’. But then again ‘WTF is art?’
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//////////Reply by bamboomz
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
hate digital – ruined photography – for real
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//////////Reply by b
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Same thing with mp3s and DJing…now any bro with an illegal copy of ableton and 100 bloghaus hits thinks he’s a DJ…
Digital opens up access which is nice until you realize it inevitably means an avalanche of crap…
first!
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a ‘digital graveyard’
damn
hope FB becomes a ‘digital graveyard’ and everyone becomes a blog and everyone skims through everyone else’s blog. think just glancing at things and skimming through things might be better than reading.
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So, by your math, Twitter is probably creating some new inverse form of meaning?
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Carles, I used to really ‘like’ this blog. But the shit you’ve been posting recently is pathetic. Get your life together or give up blogging entirely.
We know the racially ‘controversial’ posts you make are done to ‘get attention’ and make HRO seem fresh/cool/interesting again.
You’re a one trick pony
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//////////Reply by a really humble guy
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
YALL
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//////////Reply by The nodder
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Yup
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//////////Reply by abdul
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 am
no, i think it’s getting better and more meaningful
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
i think he purposefully goes thru bad spells in order to lose readers, increasing HRO’s ‘authenticity’. crls is always good, unless he is bad, and then he meant to be.
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//////////Reply by Altoraak
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
finally some one who gets it
h8 pics too, maybe I’m “fucking ugly” soo confused
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//////////Reply by kutelilaltgrrl
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
solid post. made me ‘LOL’ IRL
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solid post carles. tho I still like to think that my tv/dvd/vcr combo is ‘the wave of the future’.
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i think regular ppl who take pics all the time are ‘fucking assholes’
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not ironic enough.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
tr00
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 am
false
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
no
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feel like carles ‘isn’t even trying’ with the last few blogs. miss the days of chillwave vs. glo-fi vs. gorrilavsbearcore. how many blog-decades ago was that?
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//////////Reply by carlisle
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
damn
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people don’t experience things in real life anymore. they experience them later through the digital images they took.
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//////////Reply by puppyface
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
amen
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted September 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@rrrororoor, shitts tru
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glad i have a nikon SLR, makes me ‘feel’ more auth
since i am not good at taking pics with it yet, only like 4 to 7 pics turn out from every roll–i feel like this makes my pics so much more meaningful, since its ‘a gamble’ as to weather the moment im trying to capture will be remembered 4 all time
i want to take a pic of this alt girl i am kinda in luv with, but i dont wanna b creepy about it. how shud i ask her if i can take her pic without being a creeper??
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//////////Reply by ff
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
putt it in her butt
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//////////Reply by bamboomz
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
laugh
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//////////Reply by runningcolors
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
tell her you’re cobraBro, duh.
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I feel the same way about mirrors.
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
dare u 2…
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h8 u for allways “getting shit”.
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Would it be alt to have myspace only again?
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//////////Reply by megatitz
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
yes, via the ‘world’ on facenook and TWATr.
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Carles, I don’t read ur posts anymore, I just look at the pix and ‘get it’.
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i just bring my dij-cam to shows/parties/authentic alt markets and only take pics of other people taking pics as a commentary on how society is about ‘things’ and ‘memories’ instead of just ‘living’ in the ‘mom’ent
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
sounds like u wouldn’t be that fun at a party, too seriousbro all the time.
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No ok, next thing your going to be saying is that personal hygiene is mnstrm.
Know where to draw the line.
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luv yr lil blog carles
xx
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technology is making our ‘lives’ meaningless.
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//////////Reply by SilveroTellerson
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
no, our lives have always been meaningless — fleshbags caught in a cosmic cycle. technology is simply spreading the news.
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//////////Reply by grant
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 am
‘meaning’ = western judeo christian construct.. thinkin ur life has an ‘end goal’
have fun rite now brah
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
this
think pictures 4 me got ‘devalued’ when 1 of the Los Lonely Boys told me:
‘Take a picture, trick. I’m on a boat, bitch.’
That kind of ‘abusive language’ rilly ‘crushed’ me+my desire to buy a diggy camera.
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//////////Reply by derryck
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 3:47 am
lol
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this post rly got 2 me. kinda felt like it was “written” for me. thanx 4 it and keep up the “good work”. what’s the “next big thing” after twitbook?
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 am
next big thing = social networking ’site’ contained within a combo vcr/dvd player.
feel like carles is always writing directly 2 me.
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Is anything alt anymore? Feel like holograms are pretty untapped. Seems like everything is immediately mainstream now unless its alt to be mainstream? Is irony mainstream yet? I want to ask you something, not as your guidance counselor but as your friend…What do you want to do with your life?
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i had a digital camera once. i threw it into a wall when i was “angry” once and then it went straight into the dumpster. i don’t miss it.
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Are GvsB polaroids the only auth pics of our generation?
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//////////Reply by SilveroTellerson
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
no
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‘this is gonna be the start of something…and I’m definitely 1 of the first ppl 2 find out abt it. I’d better tell a bunch of ppl abt it so that they know that they learned it from me.’
totes sums up my experience w/ HRO
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thinking about “meaningfulness” recently, kinda reminds me of this formula from information theory: information is gaged by the amount of variability or the breadth of the probability distribution on a list of items. As one item becomes more probable, the amount of information that the presence of that item conveys drops off. Lets say your looking at CD collections. The information in a given individual’s CD collection approaches 0 as the collection shrinks or as the likelihood of one CD being chosen goes to one. So a bro with a couple of DMB albums doesn’t have as much information as a Tween with shitloads of glofi. Apply this to groups of people’s Cd collections and suddenly Carles’ chart has a formula to back it up.
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//////////Reply by miguel
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
wow, pretty insiteful
does this ‘theory’ have a name so i can wiki it
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//////////Reply by kafkaBro
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(Information_theory)
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everytime I have a new camera, some asshole manages to break it
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CRLS
you’re a ‘dick’ for tumbling that meme of the threadless keyboard cat model. How MNSTRM of you to diss her for her looks.
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i used to have a camera
then i got a girlfriend
took a ton of ‘hot ass’ pics with her naked with it
‘tugged’ to them when she was at work/out of town
then she broke up with me
and demanded that i delete all of the pics
i told her ‘no’ and ‘ur a cunt’ and uploaded them all to various porn sites under the name ‘alecia rathbone-hamilton’ in the ‘amateur’ section
then i fucked her older sister who is married
just kidding
damn
that was a ‘fucked up’ story
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//////////Reply by snidely whiplash
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
THAT WERE AWESOM UP TIL THE ‘JUST KIDDING’ PART NIC E JOB ANYWAY
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digi pix are just part of the metaverse, yall. we’re busting our asses to bring about the Singularity like humans do.
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//////////Reply by mandy
//////////Posted August 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
does that mean one day they’ll be universally accessible to all people via cybertelekinesis, sort of like a ‘collective unconscious jpeg database’? that’d be kinda ‘neat’ maybe
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crls, yer not a blog. yer an artist.
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you have a point of view but its kinda racist… :P
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RELEVANT
who knew that just a digital camera blogpost could turn into such a justified commentary on modern young social life…
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first!
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I hate pictures of myself I’m always drunk, hot and sweaty, very ugly and fat looking especially the “MySpace” pose I dont even know what MySpace is? I went through my parents photo albums and cut my face out of each picture…
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You don’t need to sell your little camera to buy grass or coke…you are a “petit bourgeois” with petit bourgeois blablabla…
Nice to ask yourself such philosophical questions….but you are 100% in what you describe…
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Didn’t rly read the blog
But I feel like I’m turning ‘Japanese’
Will ‘retiring’ my digital camera fix it?
Does anyone else here like zebras?
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//////////Reply by Black Rural Latino
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Remember when it was possible to buy a camera that wasn’t attached to a telephone? Me neither.
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blacks, latino gays and white rural people are always the most interesting bros
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i refuse to be in more than two pictures in a picture taking session among my friends. i feel like my image will loose value because of so many pictures. i feel like what will be more important will be the pictures and not myself. thus if people see fewer pictures of me, they’ll want to be with me more because im not always there, though i am. its sort of a complicated concept. but i knew that having a camera was starting to lose its ‘coolness’ months ago. a new trend will soon begin of people not taking pictures of themselves. but this will take time. people are too vain to not take pictures of themselves. but soon, it will happen. its the future.
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//////////Reply by runningcolors
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
i like yr thinking.
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
loser
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weak p0st. less werds moar pixxxx.
ps is dos xx the nu sparxx? need to know asap
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so what is the most auth camera? polaroid? do they even still make film? lomos? DSLRs? i don’t kno. all i want is a camera to look the most alt in.
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i had a digi cam and was totally bored after a month, so currently i’m using a holga. they are toy cameras (from japan) and come in the cutest colurs. they use film and each camera is made of plastic. -xoxo-mae-
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Good post, people just dont want to admit this either due to their still trying not to admit that the indie dance scene is DEAD and Electro, Ableton DJ’s, Colored Glasses, Bloghause, party photographers, and “indie” chicks are all soooooooooo 2k6-2k8. Im gonna be alt and delete my myspace with all the french house/electro I have on it and get a facebook so people think I “grew up” yall.
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Carles, tell me something that I dont know. myspace has always been mnstrm, from the day it was born to is death as you call it. Facebook was more mnstrm and twiter is the ultimate form of mnstrm.Any form of social networking sites used to showcase your life, make friends/ find a local fuck buddy/ find tru love, is and always will be mnstrm. A tru alt would have known this from the start and never participate in any of that mnstrm bullshit. Carles i question your Authenticity…
are you really our messiah?
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DISAGREE!
I love pictures from old shitty digital cameras with terrible flash / red eyes / bad lighting etc. After years of being bombarded with awful overly designed marketing gimmicks, I really appreciate unprofessional, hilarious, honest pictures taken late at night in some fucked up / delirious state.
Time to get post-post-post-post ironic about this, Carles!
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I seriously think I’m going to ‘destroy’ my point-and-shoot camera [via putting it on ebay]
lol, absolutely love this site
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its hurts to read this blog. the actual topic of this post had serious potential, and the points are valid. but none of that negates the fact that you, carles, are wasting your life. you’ve successfully made a spectacle out of determining what is and isn’t mainstream. cool, good for you. you must be enjoying whatever internet celebrity you’ve achieved. please please please for our sake, keep picking off the old trends and commenting on the sort of new ones, with the style and grace of a fucking idiot.
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