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Richard Murray Valentines day album 2020 LINK
Black Hearts Day or Valentine's Day good news 2020 ALBUM Richard Murray Valentines Day Album Dawn- beginning of twilight before sunrise
And soon, both of us,Learned to trust,Not run away,It was no time to play,We build it up
Twilight-sun invisible but atmosphere illuminated
and now, I’ve got a song, to sing, tellin the world, about the joy you bring
Sunrise-sun going above equator
And all the while, inside, I knew, it was real,The way you make me, feel
Morning- sunrise to noon
I, can open, your eyes,Take, you wonder, by wonder,Over, sideways, and under
Noon-temporal middle of the day
Ain’t, no second chance,You got to hold on to romance,Don’t let it slide
Evening- end of noon to the beginning of night
Let me hear, you tell me, you love me,Let me hear, you say, you`ll never leave me
Sunset-sun setting beneath equator
As soon as I, get you, out my head, I’m in, your car, again
Twilight - sun invisible but atmosphere illuminated
Pour the wine, light the fire, Girl your wish, is my command
Dusk- darkest phase of twilight
I won’t pretend, that I intend to stop living, I won’t pretend, I’m good at forgiving
Night- darkness between sunset and sunrise
Love them, and leave them, that’s what I used to do,Use them and abuse them,Then I laid eyes on you
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Happy Day of Love+
My Art [stories/illustrations/poems] involving Love
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=love
My Valentine's Day 2022 calligraphy gif + poem[read description]
Richard Murray Valentines day album 2020
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/#findComment-849
Questions
What’s the most heartwarming piece of art you’ve seen from another artist in the community?
How is love represented symbolically in your life or in your culture?
Has love inspired you to create something? If so, share it in your comment and talk about how the feeling inspired it!
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https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1122131534/5189135618
Here is some synthography, AI art, I did honoring black female sculptors. I used DeviantArt Dreamup for each, tried to focus on their most popular work. I imagine the computer didn't know any but you get an idea of each artist.
Selma Burke
Prompt [ African American couple kissing happily, bronze bas relief from Selma Hortense Burke ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Augusta Savage
Prompt [ Elegant African American couple of the 1800s dancing happily, clay model from Augusta Savage ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Prompt [ happy ancient nubian couple praising the sun, bronze free standing sculpture from Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 3:4
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Edmonia Lewis
Prompt [ happily embracing black seminole couple, marble sculpture from Edmonia Lewis ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 9:16
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Faith Ringgold
moonlight, painted story quilt from Faith Ringgold ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Betye Saar
Prompt [ happily swimming African American couple, magical horizon, mixed media assemblage from Betye Irene Saar ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 3:4
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Beverly Buchanan
Prompt [ happy, laying on an old shack African American couple, old withered photograph from Beverly Buchanan ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 16:9
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Elizabeth Catlett
Prompt [ married African American farmers reaching up, onyx modernist statue from Elizabeth Catlett ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 9:16
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
Ruth Inge Hardison
Prompt [ married African Americans kissing, sculpted portrait from Ruth Inge Hardison ]
artstyle dreamup
aspect ratio 1:1
prompt strength 7
negative prompt [ dull, poor lighting]
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14 February 2026
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Is the loch narr lovecraftian?
My answer
challenging question, the problem in modernity with lovecraft is his name has become synonomous with any literature or illustration that depicts, a potent or omnipotent god that may act negatively but more importantly has mystery to them. ala Cthulu. If you consider Zorastrianism, where the most potent divine is deemed a double natured god, then loveraft merely mirrored zorastrianism's god, which is from the distant antiquity. If you look at the hindu religion. It has more branches than christianity while never had a schism. What is my point? in hinduism, the divine, the brahman, is left to interpretation. A hindu can be a monotheist and another hindu a polytheist and both ways are not deemed correct or incorrect, but it is up to each individual to follow those ways. The responsibility is the adherent. The Brahman is functionally, from a christian historical lens, the interpretation of christ by the gnostics, whose main argument is that god/brahmin/similar names for divine nature can not be known, only interpreted. What does this have to do with Lovecraft? Lovecraft's gods or worldbuilding, shows entities that aren't confusing if your used to a hindu or gnostic christian approach to spirituality or religion. So, Loch Narr is arguably, hindu or gnostic as well as zoarastrian in reference, and all three of those heritages are older than lovecraft. I imagine he knew of all three. So challenging question. The simple answer is yes, because the Loch Narr has elements of characterizations in Lovecraft literature. The more even answer is, it comes from a longer tradition of complex divine beings
citation
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1247320763661418587/1472358161594978388
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exactly, being commonly known has value. Lovecraft achieved that in his time. Look at Robert E Howard or Phillip k dick, the quaity in their writing was quality before comic books/films but it was wehn frazetta inked a comic book that conan grew in the common knowledge and then a little brilliant film by milius was made, and conan has made money howard could only dream of. Dick's works were always brilliants, but it took a little movie from ridley scott to expose the trasure trove and the rest is history. Dick's stories have made post mortem a ton of money. So, being commonly known as an artist has value. the envious artist calling it selling out, the honest artist call it luck. .... to ponzi your correct , the label ponzi scheme has become the wish of many people who invested poorly and want some way to reclaim. ... yeah personal accountability is a way to look at it, though, if i owned a media outlet, i would want what is communicated through my outlet to be honest, precise in wording. part of lovecratian and ponzi scheme is how often media uses terms uncaringly, not just poorly, but uncaringly, which demands the viewers be accountable to what media says, to rewrite, many media outlets don't act like they care they are trusted or want to be trusted but many viewers place levels of trust. so media can argue viewers need to be personally accountable, which is the truth but firms have to also be labeled low quality. I didn't say firms have to be accountable but firms , especially media ones need to be labeled + accept being labeled as low quality when they simply are. Twitter/ CNBC/FOx NEws/ Youtube are all low quality media outlets while the most viewed. I know freedom of the press or speech means they can't be blocked and it is up to citizens/viewers to reject them or accept them, but I think a label of low quality is warranted.
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D&D didn't ruin what people think of as a barbarian. It offered another perspective which simply became more well known, back to lovecraft being well known over other writers of his time. D&D is popular. Gauntlet is popular. The conan movie is popular. I have nothing against howard, but while conan is his, it wasn't his exact writing that led to conan or barbarians in general becoming well known. That isn't an artistic knock but a financial truth. ....I don't think anything is hard to bring to the screen. Making a film isn't the issue. Will a film be fiscally profitable is the issue? John Carter bombed financially, but it was inevitable. Ben Affleck said it best, a twenty five million dollar movie needs twenty five million in advertisement, and then you get fifty percent back in ticket sales from theaters so that means a twenty five million dollar movie needs one hundred million to break even. John carter cost 306 million dollars, lets assume that is money to make the film an advertising. that is 153 dollars. so to break even with fifty percent from the revenue of theaters, a 306 million dollar film needs to make 612 million dollars. John Carter made 284 million dollars. The first lord of the rings movie for example cost ninety three million dollars and made eight hundred and ninety seven million. so, lets say with adds the first lord of the rings movie cost one hundred and eighty six million . The revenue would have to be at least three hundred and seventy two . Lord of the rings first film made double of what was needed to break even. But how was lord of the rings developed that was different than john carter? that is the fiscal question. Lord of the rings had years of preproduction/ meaning before anything was shot, it had years of script revision/storyboards/set design / location . John carter suffered from massive reshoots. Many films studios have to demand a fiscally better process of making films. (1/2)
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1247320763661418587/1472805194956800041
Stop making films like Justice league ,where entire films are reshot and then expected to make a profit. Stop making films where the script has not been properly molded. A better process of making films will lessen the cost of making films which by default enhances the chance of returning a profit. John Carter from a production perspective was poorly done. Too many scenes thought up while shooting. Too many special effects desires not fully conceptualized. This creates a production mess which increases the cost of a film, regardless of artistic quality. Dick Tracy cost forty six million and made one hundred and sixty two million. If we double forty six million that is ninety two. Which means the film needs to make one hundred and eighty four to break even. It is simple arithmetic. Now, looking at Dick Tracy I have some issues... how much did the cast cost? Now I don't know the truth but WIki says Beatty wanted five million and then disney said they accepted him directing/starring/producer of the film if he kept the budget in twenty five million so beatty failed. so beatty is a poor director. his process is poor, making films cost go sky high. when not needed. I look at dick tracy and I argue, it could had been done for the 25 million disney 's accountants foresaw as the point to get back money. as for the other characters, again, the project is key. they need to be in the 25 million dollar range like sinners. to think about getting a profit (2/2)
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1247320763661418587/1472808008592396562
you know, better than think, more know lord of the rings than john carter. And the familiarity plays a role in fiscal reception. ... based on what you said, the directors are the problem. Here are the films, not the detective or boyscout o rinvolving them in a group in the DC Extended Universe: suicide squad/wonder woman/aquaman/shazam/birds of prey/wonder woman 1984/the suicide squad/black adam/shazam fury of the gods/the flash /blue beetle/aquaman lost kingdom... suicide squad+wonder +aquaman made a profit, and aquaman was a gem. but the rest got worse and worse financially. so based on what you said, the producers were willing to not manage these films better but were willing to pay for thier inefficiency. I argue the overhaul shouldn't involve blockading individuals, but implementing a process that must be adhered to.
https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1247320763661418587/1472832049797926952
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For me, MArvel's success in films is a set of factors 1) Disney administration made sure Feige had an artistic process that was financially efficient for the set of films 2) Marvel has more popular non white characters than DC which helps in a modernity , where the ticket buyers to films , buyers of comics, are not just white people, it is a global audience that wants to see itself. 3 )DC has simply been a poor shepard of many of its characters , relying on Superman + BAtman as the two biggest comics in the industry, which is hurting it in the film business. DC had Nubia but most black people know of Storm first and Misty Knight second, Nubia is not well known. Whose to blame for that? Black panther is far and away ahead of Black ligtning and if anything, black lightning is almost a joke in the black audience. Linda Carter was the same age as christopher reeves when he did his first superman movie and she had a very successful tv show, why didn't they make a wonder woman movie? and instead made a supergirl film. Whose antagonist is , really atrocious writing, poor faye dunaway. So, for me, MArvel's success in modernity is stemming from a number of things. Not just Feige's management but a number of things. ... The test for DC is coming up. Superman + Batman always rake in, but MArvel's true success is in the field. Yes Spider man makes money, but who was MArvel's first film success? Blade. DC never had a blade, a character never before in visual media who had a film and made a killing. Where is DC's deadpool? advantage marvel. Where is DC's guardians of the galaxy? supergilr/clayface/the authority they will have their chance but I don't see it. That supergirl films trailer shows a very expensive film, that doesn't have superman's name on it. Women want a wonder woman film. I saw a car with wonder woman decals recently. ... we will see.
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even point, but that is why I always say Disney Marvel... I should say more often WB DC or in this case Discovery DC or shall i say with the coming sale it will be Netflix DC or Skydance DC I don't know which:) .... IT isn't the presence of characters that is the issue , it is the sheparding of them. DC + Marvel have tons of black characters but DC pre 1980 I argue didn't shepard their black characters as good as marvel and I think it was because of fiscal appreciation of their fanbase. which isn't evil. People say they comprehend fiscal capitalism but don't want firms to relate to who their buyers are. And new buyers are a risk. It is a fiscal myth that firms should take great risk in courting new buyers, as if the old buyers will be unchanging. ..... From my view, the green lantern movies problem is its overall structure. The green lantern core needs to be the movie, not one green lantern.... yes, Disney did well, damn rat:) .... haha!:) yes, pre blade the process was poor. I really believe in the process of making a film, the fiscal process which intertwines with the artistic. I do have a question to you in terms of pre blade marvel films. I have seen that Fantasitic four film/captain america I didn't see the doctor strange. I think the captain america wasn't horrible. Was it elegant or fineley made or one of the best films for me? no. But it was a decent low budget romp. I think films have the right to be low budget romps, like the first swamp thing film. ... all film studios better have bad movies or they are not film studios and are mind control users. Historically, all film studios mostly make fiscal losers. No film studio in the history of film studios mostly makes hits. I don't know if either has slipped up as film studios. I think both DC + Marvel as film studios have made hits, mostly duds and that is par the course. do you like Netflix or Skydance for shepard of DC?
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that wasn't the magicians with bill bixby ? cause i think that was also supposed to be dr strange... hahah the dark hole of rights ownership. films can be low budget and meant to be fun. ... I like the dolph lundgren punisher, only one to get it right for me. yeah, they were all based on the comics, but the interpretations were simply good, at the end of the day, a film is not a comic book nor a comic book a film. I argue a good comic book film doesn't try to satisfy comic book readers, but simply makes a good film using the story of the comic book as a base but not a bible... ahh I see:) to john stewart....well DC was already tanked before, AT&T sold DC to discovery on the cheap from market value if discovery took at&T's debt from WB so DC was already tanked, like many firms in the usa, instead of being sent to bankruptcy they were allowed to live on as a failed firm through acquisitions. Yeah I Am a fan of DC animated movies as well. the problem with animated films is the usa film going market has been trained to treat animation as for children or "weird"adults so many adults will never go see an animated movie in a theater thus their financial cieling is low and I think that helps the DC animated financially. Cause they have big brand name characters, but in animated world, they don't have to make movies to get the person who has never read or doesn't know a DC character in the global audienc,e which is many^INF , they just have to sate the comic book readers who watch animation. The comic book to screen will not work in live action to get a global audience with DC's characters.
02/18/2026
Who are the A list Marvel characters? I can name DC's easily, even before the film era. Superman/batman/ wonder woman/flash/green lantern that justice league is the gathering of the top heroes. Take out spider man , who are the a list marvel heroes?
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Who are the A list Marvel characters? I can name DC's easily, even before the film era. Superman/batman/ wonder woman/flash/green lantern that justice league is the gathering of the top heroes. I argue DC only allowed the likes of aquaman in the justice league to try and compete when marvel had great success late 60s early 70s. but dc's style of heroes is simply different, and I admit as someone raised in new york city, NYC unlike any city in the world teaches a person to learn to live near civilly near strangers/foreigners/others. No you don't always love or like your neighbor in NYC, but overall, you are civil and the xmen/fantastic four/avengers all have that similar vibe of NYC. and I think immigrant peoples around the world can appreciate the nyc vibe in marvel stemming from stan lee's writing, that don't exist in DC's heroes or their worlds. The Xmen are literally upstate new york/the avengers or fantastic four are based in NYC right. but gotham isn't NYC. Gotham is a fantastic crime ridden film noir variant of NYC. Metropolis isn't NYC . Metropolis is how NYC was imagined in the future in the new york city world's fair. Themyscira is truly unlike anywhere but none of shows or movies have ever made themyscira as complex as it originally was or been courageous enough, writing wise, to make diana not banned from returning. But DC's style of heroes are different cause they are older than marvels on average. Captain america is the oldest marvel main hero and he shares a similar style to superman/batman and the like of DC.
to marvel, unlike dc who was all in one studio marvel had their parts all over the place, spider man has done well , i think sony was a good shepard to spider man, while a poor, very poor shepard to the spiderverse. 20th century fox was a terrible shepard to Xmen for me. IT became the wolverine series, wolverine, logan wolverine and was a sign of why that firm was destined for receivership. New line did blade , and the first mortal kombat movie, but new line is terrible at series which ended it. Disney bought marvel but couldn't use the xmen/spiderman who were owned by others ... Taking out Spiderman , who are marvel's A level characters? Marvel was never a more popular comic book company than DC. One is that DC simply had the first icons: superman/batman/wonder woman and https://bleedingcool.com/comics/how-marvel-comics-first-overtook-dc-comics-in-1972/
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How Marvel Comics First Overtook DC Comics In 1972 Published Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:57:14 -0600 by Rich Johnston|Last updated Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:16:07 -0500 |Comments Today, the best-selling publisher of comic books in America is Scholastic. The second is Random House. But in the last half of 1972, that was suddenly Marvel Comics for the first time. One of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm (author of Comic Book Store Wars) set up the Californian comic book store and the first comic book chain. He has many tales to tell, including showing off the flyer printed to mark the occasion, from his friend Brian Kane. Bob Beerbohm writes on Facebook, with permission to republish; Last Half of 1972 Marvel announces their firm has finally overtaken DC comics to become #1 publisher of comic books in America. Marvel claims on this flyer "…in the world…" but that is hyperbole on their part. Reason How this was accomplished? Not from story quality, etc, but from an under-handed tactic of initially agreeing with DC for a cover price hike to 25 cents with DC Then doing that price hike to 25 cents for just one month of comic books, BUT, then secretly dropping back down to 20 cents the following month. Catching and blind-siding DC in that process Marvel beginning to outsell DC was and is predicated on customers seeing 5 Marvels for a buck VS just 4 DC for a buck. I saw the customer purchasing cross over from DC to Marvel for that very reason, firsthand, up close and personal. We had just opened our first of many Comics & Comix stores in the Bay Area. Marvel Comics would remain the dominant comic bookseller in the US newsstand and comic book store, until Image Comics and a Death Of Superman hyped DC Comics would push them out briefly. However, DC Comics always performed better at the bookstore than Marvel – and still do. Though Scholastic, Penguin Random House, Viz Media and Kodansha have pushed them both down the list in recent years.
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It is interesting, the question says, overrated movie that everyone loves... that part invalidates most films. I can't think of a film everyone loves and no work of art is truly overrated because all art has those who love it. Gone with the wind or Birth of a nation or king kong or ... star wars or lord of the rings were not loved by everyone and are evenly rated by those who love it, as well as evenly rated by those who do not. I argue the question is dysfunctional. Yes, millions didn't get lord of the rings, and millions didn't get gone with the wind, and millions didn't get birth of a nation. Now if the question was, movie that everyone I know loves, but I just don't get... now you have an even question. A small enough everyone, and no false sense of rating, so that it doesn't have an automatic millions of people not getting it regardless of the movie you choose, or an uneven assessment of ratings when people rate all art as they feel about it. And my answer to the adjusted question is I don't know:) I can see why any film, ANY FILM is loved I can see why any art is loved. If anything I argue the artists who can't see why a work of art is loved is hurting themselves as an artist. You have to have an open mind to comprehend the eternity that is art. ... I will make another adjustment, movie that everyone I know loves, that I wish didn't and why? To that end I can answer. I get the lion king 100% , I don't think it is falsely rated. But I wish people I know didn't love it. It is a beautiful animation, simple, a little crude, but an uplifting story, has fun. I just wish it had humanoid characters instead of the nonhumans. I have aesthetic desires. Call them biased, negatively or positively, but they are true for me. If I was in control of disney, which I am not, the lion king has humanoid characters. the princess and the frog has a human princess the whole movie and the male lead is a frog. And comprehend I 100% get the lion king or the princess and the frog. I think they both have lovely elements. Both have for me, lame elements. but that is art
Wanna know one of the changes when Murphy was hired? The love interest went out the window.
Just thought you should know.
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On this date in 1984, "Beverly Hills Cop" premiered in Los Angeles.
In 1977, Paramount executive Don Simpson came up with a movie idea about a cop from East L.A. who transferred to Beverly Hills. Screenwriter Danilo Bach was called in to write the screenplay. Bach pitched his idea to Simpson and Paramount in 1981 under the name "Beverly Drive", about a cop from Pittsburgh named Elly Axel. However, his script was a straight action film and Bach was forced to make changes to the script, but after a few attempts the project went stale. With the success of "Flashdance" (1983), Simpson saw the Beverly Hills film as his next big project. Daniel Petrie, Jr. was brought in to rewrite the script and Paramount loved Petrie's humorous approach to the project, with the lead character now called Axel Elly, from Detroit. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer claimed that the role of Axel Foley was first offered to Mickey Rourke, who signed a $400,000 holding contract to do the film. When revisions and other preparations took longer than expected, Rourke left the project to do another film.
Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the part of Foley. Stallone gave the script a dramatic rewrite and made it into a straight action film. In one of the previous drafts written for Stallone, the character of Billy Rosewood was called "Siddons" and was killed off half-way through the script during one of the action scenes. Stallone had renamed the lead character to Axel Cobretti, with the character of Michael Tandino being his brother and Jenny Summers playing his love interest. Stallone has said that his script for "Beverly Hills Cop" would have "looked like the opening scene from 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998) on the beaches of Normandy. Believe it or not, the finale was me in a stolen Lamborghini playing chicken with an oncoming freight train being driven by the ultra-slimy bad guy." However, Stallone's ideas were deemed "too expensive" for Paramount to produce and Stallone ultimately pulled out two weeks before filming was to start. Two days later, the film's producers, Simpson and Bruckheimer, convinced Eddie Murphy to replace Stallone in the film, prompting more rewrites. Besides Stallone and Rourke, other actors who were considered for the role of Axel Foley included Richard Pryor, Al Pacino, and James Caan.
Murphy, John Ashton, and Judge Reinhold improvised most of their comic lines. Literally hundreds of takes were ruined by cast members, actors or the director laughing during shooting. During the "super-cops" monologue, Ashton is pinching his face hard and looking down in apparent frustration. He is actually laughing. Reinhold put his hand in his pocket and pinched his thigh really hard, trying to prevent himself from laughing.
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hahaha I knew you would mention that:) In defense , look at the amount of rewrites this project took on. I don't deny that the white writers took out the love interest when eddie came in, ala eddie murphy's desire for love interest in boomerang and coming to america, but you read what stallone wanted to do... part of me can imagine stallone's. bless karl urban for his judge dredd. The reality that it took all of these rewrites and development drama for murphy to get the job is telling in itself.
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well concerning the issue of black heterosexual activity in films , the issue is not about one film right 🙂 it is about patterns or lack thereof . In the case of films financed by whites in the usa, a pattern displaying an absence of black heterosexual activity in films financed or written or directed by whites is clear to see. And can only be denied by the dishonest. You know my thoughts, the question is always how to fix problems. In my view only black produced films will provide the width of black characterizations that is absent in white produced films. I don't think white produced films will ever expand black characterizations in any robust way. In one film here or there? yes, but not enough to ever make a pattern.
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