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Before I start this video I want to thank you all for 1,000 subscribers!

My Super Smash Bros. videos have blown up and it's really awesome to finally get some

attention after all this hard work.

It's definitely strange seeing all this feedback and the rapid growth of my channel,

but it's awesome and I welcome all the new subscribers to my channel.

Strange… strange…

weird… weird.

Quee-.. queer…

GAY PEOPLE!

Only around 50% of today's teenagers identify as straight.

So that means, you're about 30% more likely to identify as gay or trans or something than

you are to fight cancer some time in your life.

Gay people are spreading.

And until we die and go to heaven, we'll have to deal with them.

There aren't a lot of gay characters in video games,

and when they are in video games they're often portrayed as strange, evil, and generally

inhuman.

Do you remember that Game Theory video that came out like…

4 years ago?

Watching it today is strange because of how relevant it still is but how irrelevant some

parts have become.

But looking back at it today with today's very strange and debated definition of gender

and sexuality is weird.

But the general debate is…

where the fuck are the gay people???

It's been getting better in recent years but the representation of LGBT people has

definitely been something the gaming community has had to work on.

It's not as bad as it used to be, though.

Undertale's Alphys and Undyne were so naturally written in that it took us a second to realize

"HEY THESE PEOPLE ARE IN LESBIANS WITH EACH OTHER".

But even today there's still a lot of discussion about how they're written in.

Remember the Catherine controversy?

I wish I didn't.

It was poor advertising for the most part but it's one of the biggest gaming journalism

non-problems in recent memory.

You know, you write a relatively likeable transgender character

and then like a fucking idiot you deadname her in the game's credits.

Either way, it's not like game journalists are well known for their understanding of

the shit they write.

Now this part is something people debate on.

The subtlety of LGBT characters.

For example, Tony from Earthbound.

If I hadn't read that he was canonically gay I'd have probably assumed he was just

a sperg who really looked up to Jeff, but no, he's gay.

But he's a small character, and people complain about that too.

Where are all the gay MAIN characters?

Why is Vivian trans in the Japanese version but not in the American version?

That's another problem.

Earlier on video game companies just pretended gay people didn't exist.

A character is gay?

No they're not.

Gracie, Birdo, Poison, all swept under the rug.

I mean, at least you're not gay for finding them attractive in the Americas.

But the pretending that gay people don't exist so the American media won't sperg

out was kind of understandable 30 years ago, but now?

Like, whether you like it or not, the American media is pretty friendly to gay people.

So much so that we sometimes get the reverse problem.

Soleil from Fire Emblem Fates for example, is so fucking gay.

She basically is constantly asking girls out and kissing girls and making shitty vlog channels

like lesbians do.

But she can't marry any girls.

This is because the American translation politicized her from someone who found girls cute or something

to a lesbian.

Inigo's daughter also seducing women is a funny idea,

but it still is rewriting a character to push an agenda.

This isn't the only thing Treehouse did to rape Fates.

For example, there are same-sex marriages in the game.

Between Corrin of either gender with two different bisexual characters.

What I do care about is that the confession scenes between Corrin and the character of

the same gender were taken out, and the conversations were the same regardless

if the relationship was gay or straight in an attempt to,

I guess, normalize homosexuality.

But it's just awkward and it really pisses me off.

The game's localization is a disaster regardless, we all know this, but it's still frustrating

how often this is done wrong.

I think writing in LGBT characters into video games is generally a lose-lose situation.

First of all, if I had to guess, main characters are often not gay because more people are

straight than gay, so having a relatable main character often

means making them straight.

More people can relate with a male and female relationship than a gay or lesbian one,

I guess.

It's also just less controversial to make everyone straight, at least it used to be.

Now it can be a way to push your game to stupid queer culture on the internet and get free

publicity.

But that's a double-edged sword because leftist journalism always finds a way to call

your game homophobic or transphobic, so writing in LGBT characters is just dangerous.

How do we fix this?

Writing them well.

It's hard to fit in a character's sexuality without it seeming forced, and pissing off

game journalists.

So here's how you don't make a big stink out of having a gay character.

Find a way for it to be relevant to their character.

This doesn't mean you need to write characters like Tenko who is thirsty for a 4'11 magician

but making it clear and natural is the best way to do it.

Give them a love interest or something.

Make them casually mention they have a significant other of the same sex.

Be sure there's more to the character than their sexuality.

And don't hypersex them.

When a character just happens to be gay people will accuse you of pandering.

And if their sexuality is a big part of their character arc someone is going to accuse you

of being bigoted.

Some tips are: well, don't deadname people.

Come on, that should speak for itself.

Don't try and make a character's sexuality intimidating.

Make their sexuality have a reason for being mentioned.

Don't do it like Mass Effect Andromeda.

Give us more Undynes, fewer Final Fantasy VII rapey crossdressing scenes.

More Tracers, fewer Rasputins.

In fact, just look to Undertale.

Toby Fox knows how to do it.

All in all, the concept of LGBT characters in video games is very, very complicated.

But who's to blame in all of this?

Game journalists, for making a mountain out of a molehill.

Game developers, for writing shitty LGBT characters.

Me, for that problematic joke earlier.

You, for not complaining about this.

The Catholic church, for taking this long to allow gay marriage.

The Islamic church, for throwing gay people off buildings.

Gay people, for being gay.

LGBT characters are honestly not that hard to write.

If you have a decent experience and you're a decent writer,

it should be pretty easy writing gay, trans, or whatever characters.

That's a fucking lie, by the way.

No it's not, it's fucking not.

For more infomation >> A Video About LGBT Characters - Duration: 5:34.

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CEDIA Talk - Home Video: The Future of Video - Duration: 31:35.

- [Announcer] So without further ado, I'm gonna hand you

over to Michael Heiss who is gonna

give us our first presentation.

- Thanks Walt, good morning everybody I'm Mike Heiss

the guy with the jacket, but as an added attraction

I now have the color bar socks, okay.

So you gotta play the part,

so thank you and welcome ISE 2018.

What we're gonna do this morning is do a quick talk

on where video will be in 2020,

who is this guy?

Other than being the clown with the jacket,

I run my own consulting firm in LA, I'm also a journalist

you could read my articles in HiddenWires and TWICE

and Residential Systems I've been doing this way,

way, way too many years.

I used to work at NBC in New York, Rank Video

which at the time was, now how's this for a bit

of technology at the time we were the world's

largest video cassette duplicator.

Imagine 15,000 VCRs in one room making copies.

Times have a bit changed, and I worked at Harman

for many years and developed a lot of products

that you've seen, I even if you were in a hotel

and there were movies you can blame that on me.

I was involved with the creation of the first

in-room hotel movies and here's my contact data

down at the bottom.

So they've asked me to do a little talk about video 2020

where are we going to be going forward?

What forms are video going to take?

Where's it going to come from?

Once it's made, how's it going to get to the home?

How will it be accessed?

How will video get around the home?

And what will be used to view?

So what you gonna see is some of the things

will have green type instead of black type

and that's meant to indicate something

that is changing, because the more things change

the more they remain the same so you have to

both change and remain the same at the same time.

So let's get out the crystal ball,

I've just had the crystal ball updated it's running

the latest software so let's see where we're gonna go.

What forms will video take?

In the old days it was, depending on how old,

it was an antenna you connect a coat hanger

or a piece of wire or an aerial to the back of the TV set

you put it up on the roof and the wonders of technology

you'd get video, that's significantly changed.

I was kidding that when I was in the video cassette business

that was the primary means

of distribution for prerecorded content.

Those days are long gone, we've got now

a variety of ways of getting content delivered

but it's important to differentiate between

linear content, recorded content,

and live content because there's somewhat of

a difference in how that's gonna be distributed.

There's more, and again here's a lot of that are

changing here, you have more binge-centric content.

And I realize that we're not in the content creation

or distribution business but by virtue of the fact that

CEDIA members and the people in this hall are the ones

that provision the ways that content is captured

and displayed and listened to,

you are part of the content world.

So there's a lot of binge-centric, if your client

is into I don't know,

Game of Thrones, the woman who stars in Game of Thrones

used to live down the street for me,

I don't know what her name is but I used to call her

Game of Thrones lady, that's binge-centric

so that's the kind of thing where people just sit

in a room for a weekend and watch the whole breadth

of a program, that's something that is more amenable

to a theater environment than just you know

watching the news or watching the sports

or watching football it's app based.

So how are you going to get it?

You're gonna do it on a phone or a tablet

or some wireless device, and that's influencing

the way that you provision video in the home.

Another thing that's increasingly happening,

is social parallel content and what I mean by that,

is the super bowl, or the stupid bowl, you know like

was there some big football US thing last week?

I don't know but there is a trend towards a concurrency

where on one screen something like this,

you're gonna watch the content at the same time,

you're gonna be there doing this on your phone

or your tablet and then it's even gonna go one step

further where people such as YouTube and Facebook

and Amazon are actually bidding for sports rights.

So will Premier League not be on a national

broadcast network but at one point will Premier League

or whatever your sport of choice is be covered

only on streaming and then while you're watching it,

short attention span theater while you're watching it,

you're commenting on another device.

That in turn not only puts pressure on the display

infrastructure but it means you need more Wi-Fi

or more connectivity because there is a lot going on

at the same time, there's gonna be a lot of VR, AR,

and mixed reality, I'm a little at odds

with some of the other folks in the orbit here.

I'm not a big fan of VR that doesn't mean it's gonna

happen or not happen, I'm a very big fan of AR,

augmented reality where you're not wearing

one of those goggles but you're perhaps wearing

glasses or your looking out at a projected

image that is superimposed on reality.

And that is sort of for the moment standing

a bit behind all the publicity about VR

but AR in many people's mind particularly Apple,

if anyone is into AR and you want to see what it's like,

if you have an iPhone go to the Apple Store

and look for ARnold, A R n o l d, a Movie

or if you check ARnold and the AR's artificial reality

and it's something that was created by a bunch

of grad students at USC, University of Southern California

and it's a story where because it's showing the room

that your in it's not locked in like a goggles.

But you can, it's the story of a young boy

and his dog who wants to escape so you can watch it

from a storyteller's perspective,

from the perspective of the dog, from the perspective

of the little boy or from the perspective of the mother

whose waving his finger at him keep the dog

off the furniture because it's artificial reality

and it measures where the furniture is in the room

the dog can jump on the couch, you can't do that with VR.

So that's why AR is big and not everything will be 4K

and HDR, it's gonna be a mix.

There's a big movement afoot starting in the US

but I think it will see it in the rest of the world,

not just to do HDR, high dynamic range content with 4K

that's the way everybody associates it,

but also to do it with standard hi-def.

Because the benefit is not just the resolution,

the benefit is a dramatically improved color,

so you'll begin to see some HDR with standard HD content

and then on the other hand god help us

there's 8K we'll get to that a little later.

Where's the content gonna come from?

It's still gonna come from OTA Over the Air,

when in doubt hook up an antenna and you can watch

a programming it doesn't matter where you are,

North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia,

wherever, there still are gonna be antennas.

There still are gonna be content that you're gonna

wanna watch Over the Air and in fact there will be

some content until some of the dynamics in the marketplace

change that you will still only be able to get

Over the Air primarily and then streaming secondarily.

On the other hand, there will be more app-based

and streaming content if you want to watch

Game of Thrones you can't watch it

over the public Over the Air market,

you either have to subscribe to cable

and get in the US HBO or you have to subscribe to HBO

and stream it, how people access content that

they want to see in turn impacts the systems

that you're gonna design and install.

If you know that somebody's a binge watcher

not only do you want to provide a nice environment for them

to sit in because they're gonna be sitting there

for awhile but you have to make certain that there's

sufficient bandwidth and sufficient type correct

type of devices to access the content.

And there will be both, in the app-based world,

there will be both single-channel

and what we call aggregated services.

So that further complicates the issue of how

this is gonna be controlled, ESPN which is the big

sports network in the US you can get that,

through an ESPN app you pay 4.95 a month

and you get all of the ESPN content, well the sports stuff.

But if you want an aggregated content service

and again in the US it's something like,

Swing, or DIRECTV NOW, or Hulu there you're paying

more, I have DIRECTV NOW I pay $35 a month.

But I get a variety of aggregated services,

so you have to ask the people that your working with

as clients what type of content do they like to watch

what the services, by ways it's gonna be delivered

and then form your plan for equipment and displays

and capture and storage accordingly.

And finally as we mentioned above you're gonna see more

socialization, you're gonna see people watching something

and Tweeting about it at the same time.

You're gonna see more UCG which stands

for User Generated Content, YouTube a friend of my son

used to do some production she now makes hundreds

of thousands of dollars a year as an agent

for teenagers who have content on YouTube

which in turn some of those teenagers make

literally millions of dollars.

Just by ginning up content and putting it on YouTube.

So it's becoming more and more important

that when your bidding a project

that you have to work with the clients to say

what is it that you watch?

So that you can make certain to deliver it

sometimes you may not be able to access it.

You have to make sure that they can.

So how's all this stuff gonna get to the home?

Walt we didn't move the, we didn't move the outlines,

so there are a number of ways that content

can come into the house and I apologize for the green boxes

but we'll fix that, you can access it by satellite.

Around the world satellite is very

important content delivery system however there

are forces afoot in the economic world

that are saying if your Sky in the UK or if you're DIRECTV

in the US we don't need no damn satellites anymore,

not today but over the next five years,

going out even a little bit beyond 2020 there is a line

of thought that says satellite is gonna go away

and be replaced by streaming, there's always gonna be

Over the Air, pretend that this is down here.

There's always gonna be Over the Air for a variety

of reasons some of it's economic, some of it has

to do with the economics of the people that may not

be able to afford one of these other things,

and it's also something for if all else fails,

there's still TV.

There's cable modems, content delivered by cable,

you plug the thing into the wall and you get content.

Let's move over here, 4G when I was flying over

from Los Angeles on Sunday it was the bloody super bowl

and there were people waiting in the gate area

watching the stupid football game on their phones.

I didn't care enough so I didn't do it,

how is that delivered?

It was either delivered directly to their phones

via 4G or via Wi-Fi so 4G is here and it's gonna remain.

But the things that are up and coming,

this dotted line is here should be moved down to show

that fiber is increasing because fiber is the ultimate

way to get really really, really really, really really

fast really fast and a lot of it.

So fiber is one way and this should be down here, 5G

we're starting some 5G tests in the US

and in other places in the world this year.

And 5G says the speed of fiber, but through something

that connects to a phone or something that connects

directly to a smart TV so 2020 and onward from there,

that lower right hand corner 5G that's gonna be

a big part of it.

So now you've got, you've determined what it is,

you've determined how it's gonna get there, now what?

It's in the home but you still have to get it around

to the various devices how are you gonna do that?

Analog what in the Sam hell is analog?

There's no more analog, HDMI is kind of the default,

HDMI is the lowest common denominator,

everything still has and still will have HDMI.

There are gonna be other ways to do it,

you look one screen to the right and you see Display Port.

Great if you have a consumer monitor, great if your

doing the kind of enterprise type things

or retail type things that are here on the floor at ISE.

Display Port for the home, sorry I could be wrong,

I've been wrong once or twice before but not this time

I don't think so.

Let's move back over here, USB Type-C, thank goodness

there's finally a USB connector that you don't have

to worry about whether or not it's the right side up

or the right side down, USB-C is also an here it's

tied in with the much faster speed up to 10 gigs USB.

That means that over Type-C they have what's called alt mode

so you're gonna hook the USB Type-C cable into a device

and then connect it to the display and even though it

looks like it's USB the alt part of it means

inside that USB cable could be HDMI, it could

be Display Port, it could be Thunderpants

or Thunderbolt as I like to call it Thunderpants.

My Dell laptop has a Thunderbolt port but I use that

to get everything from HDMI to Display Port

to even VGA so this actually and it's in a green box

it means it's coming and it's gonna get more

encompasses everything, Thunderbolt you know,

Apple fanboys have a fricking party but no.

Okay let's move over here a bit,

Wi-Fi and there are many different flavors

of Wi-Fi depending upon how old or how expensive

or inexpensive the device is, coming up is.

If you're getting the speed coming into the house

how are you gonna distribute it to the various

wireless centric devices in the home?

The newest standard right now we're at ac,

the newest standard coming up is ax.

And again it's that concept of fiber speed

but Over the Air so you can get 5G into the house

or perhaps 5G directly into the device

or perhaps using Wi-Fi or one of the USB variants.

So it's been made, it's been broadcasted disseminated,

it's been gotten into the house

and it's getting around the house now what's gonna happen?

How will it be accessed, stored, and selected?

To some extend there isn't a lot of green in here

which means that for the most part,

this is kind of gonna stay the same,

it will improve and get better but it's gonna be

done the same way your still gonna have Over the Air,

OTA Tuners, you're still gonna have for awhile

traditional set-top boxes, whether it's a Freeview

which is Over the Air, a Freeview or a cable box

or a satellite box or some sort of terminal.

That's as old as the hills, I don't know if there's

anybody here from France, remember Minitel?

That was a set-top box, better left forgotten

but okay, physical media still lives.

The Blu-ray ultra-HD Blu-ray format,

gee you don't get those hourglasses,

you don't have somebody in the house saying

what's this buffering thing?

If you want the best reproduction, the fastest throughput

for awhile ultra-HD Blu-ray is not going away

and is still gonna remain a little smaller

but very viable.

You're still gonna have more of the streaming devices

and smart TV apps, I've brought 'em over,

I didn't bring 'em over to the hall today

but in my suitcase just to test 'em out to see if they

work outside of the US there are Roku devices.

I brought one of those, I took it to Hong Kong in October

and I'm sitting there watching through a VPN watching

Dir-- now here's a good way to look at this.

I'm in a hotel in Hong Kong, they've got Wi-Fi,

I've connected it to a VPN on my phone,

I have a Roku which is a little streaming device that is

available to some extent in Europe, the new Sky TV Now

is actually a Roku I plugged that in.

Connected it to the VPN accessed DIRECTV NOW

and even though you're not supposed to don't tell them,

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Hong Kong watching

KNBC in Los Angeles, that is an example

of how this is gonna work with IP streaming.

Or smart TV apps, the ability of the TV

to do away with the need for these apps that you get

from a phone or a tablet by having the apps built in

to the set, or another trend in the US and Canada world.

There is a mashup of DVR and Over the Air there's a

device called Tablo, the Tablo people are the ones

the nice Canadian folks and they're responsible

for my color bar socks, so Tablo is an IP connected device

it's got over the air tuners, you connect a hard drive

and it records things vocally but then it's

distributed over the internet.

And you need to get right now, a Roku or an Apple TV.

However they just done a deal with Samsung so the app

that is required is built into the TV set.

So there's, you gotta see what people want,

I keep saying that but it's really important,

what they want and then you've gotta figure out

how to get it there.

Subscription VoD, Video on Demand, versus all the time VoD.

One the other or more likely both.

VoD, Video on Demand it's not always a service,

it's I want to watch a movie,

and I subscribe to a service and I get the movie.

Video games, not gonna go away they may also change

increasingly more from the traditional you know,

we have set-top boxes and terminals.

From the traditional Xbox and PlayStation and to a lesser

degree for this type of quality Nintendo,

but that's gonna remain.

Phones and tablets of course, and up and coming Cloud DVR

and storage, so if you're familiar with Tivo

or anything in your set-top box,

whether it's a Sky box or a Freeview box, or Canal+

because I just like to say Canal+ that any one of those

regional boxes that has a DVR in it but that's gonna

be done away by catch up recording

or instead of having to capture

and record it on a hard drive, notice that none of those

boxes have solid state drives?

In a box in the rack, in the home would it be

a damn sight easier if you press a button

and have it recorded in the cloud?

So this DIRECTV NOW service that I subscribe to

has PlayStation View, has Swing which are some of the

major ones that do that in the US.

They have DVR which says I know I'm not going to be home

tomorrow night, but I want to watch whatever program,

I could call my wife you know 9 hours behind

get her up out of bed and say you know honey,

can you please record this for me?

Or I can say don't bother through an app

on my phone I can access you know a VPN when we're

out of the country I can access their service

and say record it for me in the cloud,

I'll be home next week and I wanna watch it, bingo!

So that's gonna be an increasingly important way

that content is gonna be accessed.

How will it be accessed and stored, so here it is.

Sort of a pictorialized, Android TV many many

Sony and other types of brands are building

the Android TV platform excuse me, into the device.

Chromecast, now Chromecast and Android are both

part of the Google ap- blah, Google Alphabet world

but Chromecast you know and I have that in my room too.

For $30 I can get a Chromecast, for $65 I can get

a 4k Chromecast that is one of the very few ways

to get Dolby Vision other than the Apple TV

which is $179 the Apple TV, you know, I can do with

a Chromecast or it can be built into the set

with a Smart TV or you know the various

manufacturers have different logos for it.

Xbox One you can use that as a capture and playback device.

A Blu-ray player, here's a screen from a Blu-ray player

Blu-ray players are not just to play back physical media.

They all have some access that, here are some of these

services and again this is US, Amazon, YouTube,

iHeartRadio, Major League Baseball, Netflix,

Vudu, Hulu Plus, Sony PlayStation View,

or the PlayStation itself has a variety

and it clearly varies depending upon

where your located, access to different services.

This is not gonna change, this will continue

in this form well into 2020 and beyond.

Ah but finally when you get to the end of the line

you know unless we have neutral implants, now if Rich Green

were here, he'd say in the year 2020 god willing

I should only live that long, it's 2035

you know at which point I'll only be about 86,

you'll have neutral implants.

I can't wait that long, so in the mean time you still need

to have a display to watch this stuff on.

Flat panels continue, they're gonna be LCD or QLED.

They're gonna be OLED but you're also going to increasingly

particularly in 2020 and beyond Emissive QD,

QD stands for Quantum Dots.

Right now if you go over as an example to

the Samsung display which is sort of in another hall

because it wouldn't be ISE if wherever you had

to go wouldn't be in another bleeping hall,

so you've gotta go out behind where the Harman booth is

out the door in another door and you'll see

a big Samsung display which I really commend you all to see.

QD stands for Quantum Dot it is a way of putting

a material typically liquid that goes either

in a film or on the LEDs that illuminate the screen

to very very carefully finely tune the color output

so you get amazingly vivid and accurate color.

But it's still an LED with some goop on top of it.

Emissive Quantum Dot in 2020 will be the competition

for OLED because OLED is self emissive,

if you go to the next step of LEDs the Quantum Dot material

will be inside and it will be an emissive thing.

An emissive LCD, you're going to have laser front

and short-throw projection, you know you can look right

across the aisle right here, that is definitely

gonna continue, direct LED modules go,

over there and look at the Sony CLEDIS!

Which sounds like some disease but it's really

the crystal LED system and it's what called

a micro-LED, micro-modules, micro-panels.

Extremely and maybe by 2025 there will be nano-LEDs

really really really really teeny tiny LEDs

now if you walk around the floor particularly

because of the orientation of ISE for public displays

you'll see everybody mentioned the pitch,

how tightly together are the LEDs in these modules.

So instead of having panels you've got little modules.

Clearly the closer you get the tighter it has to be,

or it won't look good,

now if you're looking across at Wembley and there's a runner

a scoreboard runner, you don't care how big the pitch is

'cause you're at the other end of the stadium!

But when your in the home, and your that close,

or your this close yeah you want it to be a tight pitch.

So micro-LED, micro-LED panels, go see the CLEDIS

and go around the corner to see what they call

The Wall I understand they're gonna get Pink Floyd

to be their spokesman, no okay I'm sorry

there's one gentleman here whose at least

old enough to remember Pink Floyd and The Wall.

So what will video not necessarily be?

Holographic presentation,

maybe but like why okay?

I mean for AR maybe but I'm not gonna sit here

and you know be Star Trek, do da do la do la do.

There's the screen no it just it is very

very unlikely you're laughing back there Walt.

Vulcan Mind-Meld or telepathic conveyance

now 35 years from now I may be hopefully still

alive, get an implant and that will put the video

in my brain don't promise that to your clients

it's not going to happen any time soon.

Now, I say that fully aware that there are cochlear implants

which are very very helpful for people who don't

have hearing where they actually do implant something

in your brain and it connects to your hearing system

so that you can hear, but your not gonna connect

something to your eyes any time soon.

So that's it, there is much to see much to think about

but I hope that this has sort of whet your appetite

a bit, I'll be around you can't miss me.

I'm going a course about this if you haven't

registered called the new technology update tomorrow

at 2 pm, 14:00 hours.

You know register and you'll hear way more about this

than you ever would want to know.

But thank you for attending I hope you've learned something

enjoy the rest of the show and safe travels.

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