Dana Nightingale 💗 (madame)
@DanaENight
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Was made some kinda level design director at Arkane Lyon (by accident?) Dishonored Disho 2 DotO ''DEATHLOOP'' BLADE. Tired Goth Wine Aunt. Queer Lady 🏳️⚧️ Ace
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New pinned tweet time! I've designed levels and missions and entire campaigns of missions. Sometimes I make maps, sometimes flowcharts, sometimes weird colorful diagrams, sometimes I get on stage and say stuff! I love my work, and hope that it can bring joy.
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Fantasy is when your weapon glows blue and sci-fi is when your weapon blows glue.
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Wishing the French a very don't vote for fascists today please
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things I'd like to see more of in games in 2024
- "it has been [time] since your last save" when quitting
- good gamepad support on PC-only games at launch
- an option to turn down or remove "ear ringing" effects
- cease-fire now free Palestine
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I made it to the final level of power wash simulator
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It feels like they're so close to understanding what the reason is.
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Hi
#TransDayOfVisibility
&
#VisibleWomen
💛☺️
My name is Dana Nightingale (she/her) and I'm Campaign Director at Arkane Lyon.
My best known work is level design of the Clockwork Mansion in Dishonored 2, and on the mysterious leads of "DEATHLOOP".
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This looks like it was designed by an Arkane level designer. 😌
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The first thing that I worked on at Arkane was The Flooded District, with Christophe Lefaure. Here's some of my early flow diagrams and paper maps, in no particular order. (Cont.)
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Fantasy is when you have enemies with a looong snoot. Sci-fi is when you have enemies with a loooong snoot.
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In Dishonored the cigarettes are the same asset type as NPCs. You could probably copy and rename a file and see everyone smoking another person. (Yes, I've seen this. I probably have a video of it somewhere.)
What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
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Hello
#TransDayOfVisibility
&
#VisibleWomen
.
My name is Dana Ellen Nightingale (she/her) and I'm the Campaign Designer at
@ArkaneStudios
Lyon working on
#Deathloop
. Before that I was a level designer! My best known work was on the Clockwork Mansion of
#Dishonored
2. 💛☺️🏳️⚧️
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people I love work on this
I'm working with them
Hi, I'm director of the level design team let's gooo
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Hi, I'm Dana. I've been designing games since I was a kid and professionally since I was 30. I came out 🏳️⚧️ at 40. I'm working at Arkane Lyon as campaign director.
This is
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
Please click the tag to see what many, many more look like. 💛
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The 10th thing I worked on at Arkane was The Bank Job for Death of the Outsider, and gosh did I have fun with this one. This was designed to be a smaller and more compact location, and focus on giving the player many many approaches. 1/12
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Shout out to my local grocery store clerk who over four years has gone from "hello sir' to "do you have a brother who used to come here?" to "how do you do ma'am?" without me ever explaining a god damned thing to him.
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SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED IMMERISVE SIMS EVEN THOUGH THAT'S A TERRIBLE NAME AND NO ONE CAN DECIDE IF IT'S A GENRE OR A DESIGN PHILOSOPHY AND WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN BUT IT'S BETTER THAN SAYING DEUSEX-LIKES I GUESS BUT YOU KNOW THE REAL PROGENETOR OF THE GENRE WAS CALLED ULTIM
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It's finally my moment to do one of these. 😊💛🎉
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2015 and 16 were some of the darkest, bleakest, most oppressive and traumatic days of my life.
But being part of the development of Disho 2 set me on the trajectory I'm on today. It's one of the most important things I've done.
Happy 7 clockwork mansion.
Today we celebrate the 7th anniversary of
#Dishonored
2! 🍰
Thank you for your unwavering passion for this world. 🩶
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#DEATHLOOP
is out today! 😊
I was the principal designer of the game's murder puzzle (Campaign Designer) and did level design on Aleksis Dorsey's Mansion (along with
@Galiegor
).
If you're playing today, I'd love to know what you think of the game so far. ☺️ (DMs are open too.)
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Well, gosh.
A ne'er-do-well used this picture of me to do a bog-standard transmisogyny which was not even the most offensive thing in the tweet, with the
#ThisIsWhataGameDevLooksLike
tag, and got ratio'd into oblivion.
Hi! Thank you.
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Today marks 13 years at Arkane. ✨🍷✨
So here's me at the start of my games industry journey and today.
At around 19 I was a freelance web developer and made official sites for Irrational Games (System Shock 2, et al) Looking Glass (Flight Combat) and more.
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The 9th thing I worked on at Arkane is the one you've probably been waiting for, and I'm here to talk about it just in time for
#Blocktober
; The Clockwork Mansion of Dishonored 2.
For that, we have to start with the prototypes. 1/19
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That's not metaphorical. Modders can get away with nasty bullshit that would fail cert and cost millions of cash moneys and cause chaos for localization and they do not have to care. And I love that.
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The game designer urge to play games you "should" play rather than the ones you want to play.
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I'm ridiculous but this has been high key bothering me.
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Nobody is mad about pronouns.
They're mad that a large corporation acknowledged that we exist.
That this corp considers acknowledging that we exist is more profitable than pandering to them.
Or maybe they're just really stupid idk.
Also it's my employer so that's cool.
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I think I took this picture just in time for
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
I'm Dana, she/her 🏳️⚧️
I'm Campaign Director at Arkane Lyon, a Bethesda/Xbox studio. I work with level design, narrative, and UX.
I just finished a GDC talk and yes I'm as exhausted as I look
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Oh no is this a 2021 happenings dump?
• I came out as transgender after being in the closet since 2009. ⚧️🏳️⚧️
• I paid off my student loans ($120,000 at their peak in 2010) 💸🦅
• I reinvented my wardrobe. 👗
• I was featured in both NoClip and GMTK. 🎥
(1/5)
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This has been the wildest production of my life. Went from level design to the design of the whole campaign. Recovered from burnout. Came down with tinnitus. Worked from home. Came out. 🏳️⚧️ Revealed to the world that I exist. Paid off my student loans. Began public speaking. Gosh.
DEATHLOOP has gone gold! Get ready to break the timeloop on September 14!
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It's happened.
I've got the estrogen.
It's still sinking in.
omg
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So if it's hard for a modder, it's probably a little unreasonable to go, oh gosh, why couldn't the devs do this? A billion reasons. All of the reasons. Technical and legal and ethical reasons. Give us a break please.
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I just spent two and a half hours with
@gamemakerstk
talking about Dishonored 2's Clockwork Mansion for an upcoming episode. ☺️ Mark Brown is very good at asking questions that let me say smart-sounding things. 😅
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I guess we're using
#TDOV2023
now? Neat.
Anyway this is a public service announcement to Gamers.
Dishonored 2's "Clockwork Mansion" was level designed by a trans woman. (i.e. me. Hi!)
That is all. 😌
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I like to clarify so I will. I am not throwing shade at the publication or especially not the modder, who I want to send 💛💛💛💛s to.
I've been a pro dev for 13 years and a modder for 15 with some overlap. Modders can do shit that is LITERALLY impossible for devs to do.
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In Dishonored, The Loyalists, both the Flare Launcher (pictured) and the entire rooftop Arc Pylon setup where 100% LD (me) kitbash and not reviewed nor validated by any member of the art team. (I'm sorry.)
More info in the alt text.
Now that Twitter is actually going to die you legally need to admit your game dev sins
I have hidden abstracted versions of Loss in older projects and you’ll NEVER find them.
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Thief II, Special Thanks: name was misspelled.
Feeling: Ugh. Damn. Fuck Dead Names though so who cares.
Arx Fatalis, Special Thanks: dead name spelled correctly.
Feeling: Arkane, you haven't heard the last of me!
"DEATHLOOP": As Dana Nightingale
Feeling: -bliss-
Game industry people: What was the first game you were credited in and how did it make you feel?
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Two years ago today I came out as transgender at work and on online, so I recorded a very unpolished message about that. ☺️🏳️⚧️
Happy to answer questions about my journey so far.
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I get a lot of credit for the Clockwork Mansion. Listen to this podcast to learn the names of dozens of other Dishonored 2 developers who also deserve credit.
The hourglass philosophy behind Dishonored and Deathloop's genre-leading level design
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#TransDayOfVisibility
My name is Dana
My pronouns are she/her
I figured out I was trans from 2009 to 2013
I came out Feb 1st 2021
I started HRT Nov 24th 2022
I haven't legally changed my name yet
I was born in the US and live in France
I make video games
I'm pretty happy
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The fifth thing I worked on at Arkane never saw the light of day. It was a map for The Knife of Dunwall set at our vista landmark, the clocktower. Before I get into my diagrams, here's some history. (1/12)
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Happy 25th anniversary to Thief: The Dark Project. I used to run a fan site for it so I have some historical artifacts in jpg form from the year prior to its release. I just thought some folks would find these neat.
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What if I walked on stage and accepted an award today. 😳
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And circling back to the original tweet, there's no such thing as "No ETA" in dev. Ohhh ah ha ha some may play coy and say there is, but no. There's not. You begin work, there's a deadline. Even if you haven't thought of it, there is. Because capitalism.
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The sixth thing I worked on at Arkane was "Eminent Domain" for Dishonored's DLC, "The Knife of Dunwall". This is what we made instead of the very expensive Clocktower map. 1/14
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So this guy is @-ing everyone he knows at Arkane to whine about stuff and I haven't muted him because I'm looking forward to having a good laugh about this later. Someone's going to do a dramatic reading.
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It's definitely sunk in
And this feels just ridiculous to say
And I don't think if you don't understand that you should try to, but listen -
This is the first time in my entire life that I've actually felt self love
My body is finally on my side, not my enemy.
It's happened.
I've got the estrogen.
It's still sinking in.
omg
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Folks, please, sending your CV/portfolio directly to me isn't skipping the recruitment queue. It's putting yourself in a different, worse queue which ends at the back of the main queue. Please just use the zenimax jobs site!
Or even better,
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My hope is that "DEATHLOOP" is a little like Bloodborne. In that after playing it you can replay the other games by the same studio and appreciate them in a new way.
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Would you like see see my talk, "DEATHLOOP"'s UR UX Death Loop?
I've got you.
Here's a recording from Game Camp. 💛
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Speaking of looooong snoots. We almost had this. (Reposted to include alt text)
Fantasy is when you have enemies with a looong snoot. Sci-fi is when you have enemies with a loooong snoot.
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What's this? Level Design positions open at Arkane Lyon? You could join the LD team behind "DEATHLOOP"?
One thing you won't see on those listings is a number of shipped games / years experience. Come make your first game with us.
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I just killed my first vampire in Redfall. 🥩🫀
Congrats on the launch to everyone who worked on it, in our sister-studio in Austin and around the world. 💛 I'm your biggest fan.
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I don't think I've ever seen people in general this excited about a game I worked on coming out. 🥺
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Un-hiding my account so if anyone from arkane austin wants to find me and connect it's a little easier
I also want to signal boost if you have a "looking for work" post
💗
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@dannyodwyer
Disappointed that I haven't yet seen such classics such as
Don't give up skeleton
Finger but hole
And the quintessential
Amazing chest ahead
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One year anniversary of my most important tweet. 🏳️⚧️🧵
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"ethical reasons"
Crunch. The ethical reasons are crunch.
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Weird Gay Ass Shit Creature Shit is my band name. 🤘
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This is such a wonderful record of what we did together. Thank you
@noclipvideo
and
@dannyodwyer
. I'm in this documentary quite a bit, talking about Flooded District and Clockwork. Feel free to AMA* about my rambles here! ☺️ But I'll get one answered to start. (1/3)
Our hour-long documentary on the design of the Dishonored franchise is now live.
Featuring insight into gameplay, level design, narrative, voice-acting, cut-content and so much more. Our sincere thanks to
@ArkaneStudios
for talking to us.
WATCH HERE:
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Always stunned by my team's talent 💖
Your excitement following Marvel's Blade reveal means the world to us. Here's some exclusive eye candy from our Art heroes at Lyon! ❤️
Want to team-up? Check out Arkane Lyon's open positions as we're looking for talents in various disciplines:
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happy third anniversary to my coming-out tweet 🎂
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Me at the start of the pandemic (first week of work from home, really) versus Now. (106th week of work from home? Did anyone keep track?)
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What did I learn from every production?
I'll tell you.
Dishonored, Flooded District: Sometimes you have to make the hard decision to throw away months of work because it's best for the player
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I can finally say what I've been working on for the past year. It's ...
#DEATHLOOP
! 😁
A free update is coming to everyone who already owns the game. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's reaction to the new content. 💛
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When I joined Arkane... no, wait
When I first became a fan of Arkane!
The motto was, "say yes to the player".
I hope that with the Deathloop accessibly update we're making good on that promise.
And we'll keep saying yes.
Yes, you too.
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What a night. 🥰
Last night was something special. Thank you all for supporting us in this journey!
#TheGameAwards
#DEATHLOOP
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Me: I want to finally try that new look I've been daydreaming about for years
Also me: but I'm deep into a months long depressive episode
Me as well: so do it depressed
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Told ya I'd wear the corset
Thanks to the
@ArkaneStudios
team for this morning's brilliant headline keynote about the development of DEATHLOOP
#DevelopConf
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I guess this is the right time to share this. Here's a very very very early whiteboard sketch of what would become the Clockwork Maison.
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"Dishonored isn’t just anti-cop. Dishonored despises anyone with any kind of authority whatsoever. Politicians, the military, religious leaders, aristocrats; “fuck em, they’re all the pricks” the game says before gleefully tasking you with burning it all down."
It’s Been Ten Years Since Dishonored Taught Me to Love Rats and Hate the Government
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In which I talk about having to become versed in UX design "overnight" (i.e. in about 6 months) for my work as Campaign Designer on "DEATHLOOP".
Deathloop campaign director
@DanaENight
spoke with
@HarryIsLate
about loop design and chaos 😵💫
Thanks to
@ArkaneStudios
and
@Bethesda_UK
! Part 2 coming soon 💀
WATCH ▶️
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Wait, what's this? A level designer position opening? At Arkane Lyon? 👀👀👀👀
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This is Rachel (must be said with a French accent)
Rachel is a one of a kind Dishonored whale plushie made for me by my uncle.
She'll eat the faces of transphobes while ushering in the devouring of our reality by The Void.
Inevitably.
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Me trying to add context and disclaimers to that tweet as I see the numbers go up minute by minute oh no what have I done.
I adore modding and I miss it sometimes. It's wild and free and pure. Pro dev is real and demanding and my absolute labor of love. 💛
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@Salman_Shh
In Dishonored 2's Clockwork Mansion you had to rescue Sokolov. He's in ragdoll mode, but "unconscious" so still has hit points and can still "die". I made him invulnerable to nearly every damage type to make having to carry him across the map more forgiving.
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I can finally announce the thing I'm working on at GDC this year that I'm the most excited about. I Nick Fury'd up this little panel. 🥰
I'm very happy to introduce Torchbearers: New Generation Immersive Sim Developers
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Twelve years ago today was my first day in a little 15 person studio called Arkane Austin.
Dana, what day is it?
(This is a scheduled tweet.)
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The three genders are literally princess, slut, loser
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Uhm hey
@developconf
if my session is this long I am going to need to bring a little more material. 😱
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A place full of people I like a lot has roles available
Producer
Level Artist
Lighting Artist
VFX Artist
S. Animator
Voice Designer
S. Technical Artist
Technical Artist
Technical Character Artist
Graphics Programmer
Tools Programmer
+ Gen Applications
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In the Flooded District, in Dishonored, I wrote a note about a key in a foreman's office and put the key there. Afraid that players couldn't find it, I made a sign to help, in MS Paint.
In Microsoft Paint.
This isn't that sign. But it was in a release candidate.
Now that Twitter is actually going to die you legally need to admit your game dev sins
I have hidden abstracted versions of Loss in older projects and you’ll NEVER find them.
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I see why so many game devs like the bear because it is so game dev
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I'm basically going to read or watch every single "DEATHLOOP" review.
👀
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Happy TDoV to my transfolk siblings. 💗
Thought I'd round out the one day where our anti-perception buff expires to share a timeline that I think I made for new years but never shared. (+ a new March photo)
Without your existence and visibility I couldn't have done this.
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IT'S NEGATIVE
🎉🎉😱🎉🎉😭🎉🎉
Right now I'm going to get the results of the genetic research into my various cancer risks to (supposedly) unblock my transgender healthcare. (Why it's blocking it is another story.)
If the results are negative then I resume the usual trek.
But if it's positive:
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