Gaming Club computer ?

Q. I recently bought a desktop computer from a gaming club that closed down. I am assuming that because I am not in the server area, that it causes my problem: everytime i shut down, the computer returns to the settings that I got it in. Does anyone know how to fix this?
@Ryan:
noooo its EVERYTHING. I lose all files, all game progress, EVERYTHING.
I think the data is saved to a server when in server range, but I dont want to operate though their server. How do you disconnectfrom a server, and use your internal memory?
I'm also thinking taht it could be a program thatis doing this. But im not sure which program it would even be...
@kurahk7
We dont want to do hat c ause then we lose all of the games on here; D:
And we can not just wipe it out. We need to copy all of the drivers, but the burner program is expired. When I download a new one, the computer restarts to take effect, but then everything is gone.

A. Well it sounds like that PC was either attached to a domain server, or had software to restore the PC to default settings upon each reboot. Some schools use a program called Deep Freeze which does exactly what your computer is doing rite now, so school kids cant mess up the school PC's. I would personally reinstall windows to fix the problem, there is no way to tell if you have the appropriate permissions/passwords to configure the PC to not work on a domain server, but if it is just a software program doing this you may be able to remove said software. I would recommend before resorting to a format, to google all the installed software names on your PC to see if any of them are capable of doing what you are describing. Good luck

Ryan

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Kids and computer games?

Q. Are there any websites or publications regarding kids playing computer games? Why do kids play computer games?

We are doing a project, a learning computer learning game for kids and we need to find references to back up our research. So any help would be great.

A. Here are a few from Macleans concerning the effect of computers on kids. Some of it based on games some of it on other items.

Hope this helps.

Fac

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Where to buy a gaming computer?

Q. I want to buy a Gaming PC but i don't know where to get it and i wont to know trusted places because some of them don't look professional. The reason i don't wont to build one is because i don't wont to mess it up and be out the money and still not have a PC. ( Not Alien ware because they are a little over priced)

A. A gaming computer is something you build, you don't just buy one from a store, really.
It is not at all hard to build a gaming PC, even a 13 year old kid can do it, and I've seen lots of them here that did just that.
Very detailed instructions are available if you Google on the subject, even Newegg.com has video tutorials on building a PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw&feature=player_embedded
Buy all your parts from Newegg.com or Amazon.com, they are the cheapest

All branded computers sold in stores (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, Asus and such) are not 100% fitted for gaming, as the manufacturers will always try to use the cheapest hardware they can find and sell for the highest profit possible.
Even if one such computer has a good processor and graphics card, it will most likely have a cheap motherboard, with an older model chipset. Also all branded computers are setup by the manufacturers not to allow for any overclocking, as it will mean a loss for them to fix or replace damaged hardware while in warranty.

Here is a complete list of components to buy for a very good to best gaming PC build:

All prices are in $USD, from newegg.com, and current as of April 2012.

PROCESSOR: Best budget processor: Intel Core i3-2130 ($150) - best budget 4 threads, dual core processor.
Best value and performance processor: Intel Core i5-2500K quad core ($220)
Best in class, price accessible processor: Intel Core i7-2600K quad core ($320)
CPU COOLER: Get a good after market processor heat sink and 120mm fan. The stock Intel CPU cooler is crap.
Either a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO or Sunbeam Twister 120 - Cost $35 to $50
Or you can get a water cooler, like Corsair H60 or H80 ($70 or $105)
MOTHERBOARD: For any processor above, get a motherboard with socket LGA1155 and chipset Z68, at least this $120 GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128495
MEMORY (RAM): Both the processor and the motherboard feature fast dual channel memory, so only buy RAM in identical pairs, to enable dual channel memory operation.
Get an 8GB dual kit (two x 4GB) DDR3 1600 G.Skill Ripjaws X Series or Corsair Vengeance ($50)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428 (8GB two x 4GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145345 (8GB two x 4GB)
GRAPHICS CARD: at least a GeForce GTX460 Fermi or AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6790 (or better), choose any with a 2200 score or higher from this benchmark list:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
The best graphics card would be GeForce GTX680 or GTX580
HARD DRIVE (HDD): 1TB Seagate Barracuda or Samsung Spinpoint SATA III (6.0Gb/s) 7200rpm, 64MB Cache hard drive ($115)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840
PSU: A good power supply, 600 watts or bigger (depends on the graphics card you choose), 80 plus certified form Thermaltake, Enermax, Cooler Master, Antech, Corsair or OCZ.
PC CASE: Any PC Case (full or mid tower), with bottom mount for the power supply, either ATX or μATX (micro ATX) size.
I recommend either any of the Sentey Series (Sentey Extreme Division Arvina is what I got) or Cooler Master HAF ($60 to $150)
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Brand.aspx?Brand=13670&name=The-Sentey-at-Newegg&Tpk=Sentey
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=haf&x=0&y=0
OPTICAL DRIVE: any cheap $15 to $25 DVD multi writer drive
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM for your operating system ($100):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986

Cost: From $800 on up to over $1500, depending on processor, graphics card, power supply and case you choose.

A good, full HD 1080p (1920x1080), LED backlit 27inch monitor will cost you around $260 to over $300.
Any cheap USB mouse and keyboard for about $30 to $50, or spend more for expensive gaming style ones.

Good luck.

The only other viable solution would be to custom order a gaming PC from places like AVADirect, iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC and such. They will build a gaming PC with almost all specs of your choice but you will pay considerably more as if you build that yourself.
DO NOT buy Alienware, they are Dell crap and also way overpriced.

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Computer gaming informative speech?

Q. Giving a 7 minute informative speech on computer gaming. Any ideas of topics I can cover?

So far I have:
Types of games (MMO, RPG, tons of different kinds)
Tips to speed up your computer
Parts you can use to build a gaming computer
Gaming leagues/Competitive gaming
3D Gaming

Any other ideas? Please and thank you!

A. Are you in computer programming? You can put this in. It is about gaming teaching kids to think, not school...

High Score Education

Games, not school, are teaching kids to think.

By James Paul Gee


The US spends almost $50 billion each year on education, so why aren't kids learning? Forty percent of students lack basic reading skills, and their academic performance is dismal compared with that of their foreign counterparts. In response to this crisis, schools are skilling-and-drilling their way "back to basics," moving toward mechanical instruction methods that rely on line-by-line scripting for teachers and endless multiple-choice testing. Consequently, kids aren't learning how to think anymore - they're learning how to memorize. This might be an ideal recipe for the future Babbitts of the world, but it won't produce the kind of agile, analytical minds that will lead the high tech global age. Fortunately, we've got Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Deus X for that.

After school, kids are devouring new information, concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not, they're doing it controller in hand, plastered to the TV. The fact is, when kids play videogames they can experience a much more powerful form of learning than when they're in the classroom. Learning isn't about memorizing isolated facts. It's about connecting and manipulating them. Doubt it? Just ask anyone who's beaten Legend of Zelda or solved Morrowind.

The phenomenon of the videogame as an agent of mental training is largely unstudied; more often, games are denigrated for being violent or they're just plain ignored. They shouldn't be. Young gamers today aren't training to be gun-toting carjackers. They're learning how to learn. In Pikmin, children manage an army of plantlike aliens and strategize to solve problems. In Metal Gear Solid 2, players move stealthily through virtual environments and carry out intricate missions. Even in the notorious Vice City, players craft a persona, build a history, and shape a virtual world. In strategy games like WarCraft III and Age of Mythology, they learn to micromanage an array of elements while simultaneously balancing short- and long-term goals. That sounds like something for their r�sum�s.

The secret of a videogame as a teaching machine isn't its immersive 3-D graphics, but its underlying architecture. Each level dances around the outer limits of the player's abilities, seeking at every point to be hard enough to be just doable. In cognitive science, this is referred to as the regime of competence principle, which results in a feeling of simultaneous pleasure and frustration - a sensation as familiar to gamers as sore thumbs. Cognitive scientist Andy diSessa has argued that the best instruction hovers at the boundary of a student's competence. Most schools, however, seek to avoid invoking feelings of both pleasure and frustration, blind to the fact that these emotions can be extremely useful when it comes to teaching kids.

Also, good videogames incorporate the principle of expertise. They tend to encourage players to achieve total mastery of one level, only to challenge and undo that mastery in the next, forcing kids to adapt and evolve. This carefully choreographed dialectic has been identified by learning theorists as the best way to achieve expertise in any field. This doesn't happen much in our routine-driven schools, where "good" students are often just good at "doing school."

How did videogames become such successful models of effective learning? Game coders aren't trained as cognitive scientists. It's a simple case of free-market economics: If a title doesn't teach players how to play it well, it won't sell well. Game companies don't rake in $6.9 billion a year by dumbing down the material - aficionados condemn short and easy games like Half Life: Blue Shift and Devil May Cry 2. Designers respond by making harder and more complex games that require mastery of sophisticated worlds and as many as 50 to 100 hours to complete. Schools, meanwhile, respond with more tests, more drills, and more rigidity. They're in the cognitive-science dark ages.

We don't often think about videogames as relevant to education reform, but maybe we should. Game designers don't often think of themselves as learning theorists. Maybe they should. Kids often say it doesn't feel like learning when they're gaming - they're much too focused on playing. If kids were to say that about a science lesson, our country's education problems would be solved.

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What was this kids computer game?

Q. There was a computer game I used to play that I'm trying to find but I don't remember much of it. All I can really come up with is the name Bob, something about geography, and I feel like you were in a house and like go into different rooms to do different things. It would have been from no later than about 1999. I'm also vaguely seeing a plant? Okay that's probably not much help at all but if anyone has any idea what this game might be it's been bugging me forever.

A. Well I typed in 1999 kids computer games bob and the only thing that came up was Brainpop. So it might be Brainpop your thinking of

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Gaming Club computer ?

Q. I recently bought a desktop computer from a gaming club that closed down. I am assuming that because I am not in the server area, that it causes my problem: everytime i shut down, the computer returns to the settings that I got it in. Does anyone know how to fix this?
@Ryan:
noooo its EVERYTHING. I lose all files, all game progress, EVERYTHING.
I think the data is saved to a server when in server range, but I dont want to operate though their server. How do you disconnectfrom a server, and use your internal memory?
I'm also thinking taht it could be a program thatis doing this. But im not sure which program it would even be...
@kurahk7
We dont want to do hat c ause then we lose all of the games on here; D:
And we can not just wipe it out. We need to copy all of the drivers, but the burner program is expired. When I download a new one, the computer restarts to take effect, but then everything is gone.

A. Well it sounds like that PC was either attached to a domain server, or had software to restore the PC to default settings upon each reboot. Some schools use a program called Deep Freeze which does exactly what your computer is doing rite now, so school kids cant mess up the school PC's. I would personally reinstall windows to fix the problem, there is no way to tell if you have the appropriate permissions/passwords to configure the PC to not work on a domain server, but if it is just a software program doing this you may be able to remove said software. I would recommend before resorting to a format, to google all the installed software names on your PC to see if any of them are capable of doing what you are describing. Good luck

Ryan

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Computer gaming informative speech?

Q. Giving a 7 minute informative speech on computer gaming. Any ideas of topics I can cover?

So far I have:
Types of games (MMO, RPG, tons of different kinds)
Tips to speed up your computer
Parts you can use to build a gaming computer
Gaming leagues/Competitive gaming
3D Gaming

Any other ideas? Please and thank you!

A. Are you in computer programming? You can put this in. It is about gaming teaching kids to think, not school...

High Score Education

Games, not school, are teaching kids to think.

By James Paul Gee


The US spends almost $50 billion each year on education, so why aren't kids learning? Forty percent of students lack basic reading skills, and their academic performance is dismal compared with that of their foreign counterparts. In response to this crisis, schools are skilling-and-drilling their way "back to basics," moving toward mechanical instruction methods that rely on line-by-line scripting for teachers and endless multiple-choice testing. Consequently, kids aren't learning how to think anymore - they're learning how to memorize. This might be an ideal recipe for the future Babbitts of the world, but it won't produce the kind of agile, analytical minds that will lead the high tech global age. Fortunately, we've got Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Deus X for that.

After school, kids are devouring new information, concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not, they're doing it controller in hand, plastered to the TV. The fact is, when kids play videogames they can experience a much more powerful form of learning than when they're in the classroom. Learning isn't about memorizing isolated facts. It's about connecting and manipulating them. Doubt it? Just ask anyone who's beaten Legend of Zelda or solved Morrowind.

The phenomenon of the videogame as an agent of mental training is largely unstudied; more often, games are denigrated for being violent or they're just plain ignored. They shouldn't be. Young gamers today aren't training to be gun-toting carjackers. They're learning how to learn. In Pikmin, children manage an army of plantlike aliens and strategize to solve problems. In Metal Gear Solid 2, players move stealthily through virtual environments and carry out intricate missions. Even in the notorious Vice City, players craft a persona, build a history, and shape a virtual world. In strategy games like WarCraft III and Age of Mythology, they learn to micromanage an array of elements while simultaneously balancing short- and long-term goals. That sounds like something for their r�sum�s.

The secret of a videogame as a teaching machine isn't its immersive 3-D graphics, but its underlying architecture. Each level dances around the outer limits of the player's abilities, seeking at every point to be hard enough to be just doable. In cognitive science, this is referred to as the regime of competence principle, which results in a feeling of simultaneous pleasure and frustration - a sensation as familiar to gamers as sore thumbs. Cognitive scientist Andy diSessa has argued that the best instruction hovers at the boundary of a student's competence. Most schools, however, seek to avoid invoking feelings of both pleasure and frustration, blind to the fact that these emotions can be extremely useful when it comes to teaching kids.

Also, good videogames incorporate the principle of expertise. They tend to encourage players to achieve total mastery of one level, only to challenge and undo that mastery in the next, forcing kids to adapt and evolve. This carefully choreographed dialectic has been identified by learning theorists as the best way to achieve expertise in any field. This doesn't happen much in our routine-driven schools, where "good" students are often just good at "doing school."

How did videogames become such successful models of effective learning? Game coders aren't trained as cognitive scientists. It's a simple case of free-market economics: If a title doesn't teach players how to play it well, it won't sell well. Game companies don't rake in $6.9 billion a year by dumbing down the material - aficionados condemn short and easy games like Half Life: Blue Shift and Devil May Cry 2. Designers respond by making harder and more complex games that require mastery of sophisticated worlds and as many as 50 to 100 hours to complete. Schools, meanwhile, respond with more tests, more drills, and more rigidity. They're in the cognitive-science dark ages.

We don't often think about videogames as relevant to education reform, but maybe we should. Game designers don't often think of themselves as learning theorists. Maybe they should. Kids often say it doesn't feel like learning when they're gaming - they're much too focused on playing. If kids were to say that about a science lesson, our country's education problems would be solved.

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Is Runaway 2 a kids computer game?

Q. I just bought Runaway 2, the adventure of the turtle, computer game. I was buying it for a friend who likes adventure games, but when I got looking more at the cover it looks like it is for little kids...its for 12+. Anyone know....The wrapper is still on it so I can return it, so could someone please let me know if its any good???

A. This is what the game is all about and its very similar to the game Broken Sword which managed to mix gameplay with humor and this is just the same. Brian Basco is on vacation in Hawaii with his girlfriend Gina, after the couple fell in love during their adventures in Runaway: A Road Adventure, the first game in this two-part adventure. Gina is excited about taking a flying boat trip to see the beautiful (but fictional) Tiki Falls on Mala Island, and Brian reticently agrees to the sightseeing excursion. Buxom Gina and now somewhat hip Brian hop on board a rickety old PBY Catalina run by Platypus Tours, but things take a turn for the worse, setting the couple on a whole new set of exotic adventures which are not actually finished during the game itself and are yet to be resolved in the third installment in the series.

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Runaway2/Runaway2.shtm
http://www.adventuregamers.com/gameinfo.php?id=167
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/runaway_the_dream_of_the_turtle/review.html
http://www.gameboomers.com/reviews/Rr/Runaway2byl4l.htm

Check out the website for more information on it.

http://www.runaway-thegame.com/

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I would like to make this computer game for kids but I am having trouble getting people interested for funding?

Q. I am preparing to make a free and open-license computer game for kids that is based on the same concept as most of the popular grade level-based children's games like JumpStart, Reader Rabbit, ClueFinders, etc. I am planning on including high-quality character artwork and animation using voiced characters. Since incorporating these elements costs money, I have set up a donation webpage on GoFundMe so that people can donate money to me for this project. However, I am having trouble getting my project noticed by the public so that my project can shine on the web and garner financial support from interested persons. I have tried Facebook but I only have a limited circle of friends and they might not be able to financially support my project. What are some names of good venues for spreading the word about my project so that I can get my need for donations for my project across to the public? If you can help me, that would be greatly appreciated.

A. Promote the game at local places like schools & Libraries out on YouTube

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What is the best gaming computer?

Q. I heard that Asus is one of the best gaming computers. But I am not sure I would prefer something other than a Dell/Alien-Ware. I play mine craft so I need something with great graphics and really fast processing.

A. NO OFFENSE,

But only a completely uneducated person would shop for computers by brand..
In fact I think you are referring to laptops here. I don't why all kids keep calling them computers?

Alienware is overpriced and Dell sucks, if you want to get down to brands.

Always look at the specs and the price, not the brand.

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What is the best gaming computer?

Q. I heard that Asus is one of the best gaming computers. But I am not sure I would prefer something other than a Dell/Alien-Ware. I play mine craft so I need something with great graphics and really fast processing.

A. NO OFFENSE,

But only a completely uneducated person would shop for computers by brand..
In fact I think you are referring to laptops here. I don't why all kids keep calling them computers?

Alienware is overpriced and Dell sucks, if you want to get down to brands.

Always look at the specs and the price, not the brand.

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Computer Gamers: Could you help me choose a processor for a gaming computer?

Q. I'm trying to put together a gaming computer for my 13 year old son. He wants to play Mine Craft and Mech Warrior Online.
I've gone to the Costco HP web site, and used the customize feature. I think we need 8GB of RAM and a 2 GB Nvidia video card.
I'm undecided about which of these two processors to choose:
#1- 2nd Generation Intel(R) Pentium(R) G870 dual-core processor [3.1GHz, 3MB Shared Cache]
#2- AMD A8-5500 quad-core processor [3.2GHz, 4MB L2 Cache]
The pricing is better on the AMD processor.
Any input or insights are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

A. I'm not familiar with the Costco HP web site.
The question is really what they are offering at what price. HP computers will always be minimalist in anything not specified in detail.
First, this appears to be the lowest priced true gaming system:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227437
It is $565 delivered.
iBUYPOWER Gamer Power NE615FX Desktop PC AMD FX-Series FX-4100(3.6GHz) 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB Windows 8
An HD 7750 is a good graphics card, and FX-4100 is an adequate CPU. The RAM is a bit slower than it should be at 1333 MHz and the HDD is only a SATA II 3Gb/s and the power supply is weak at 300 watts, but normally HP will do the same thing to you.
The case looks nice.

If buying a PC, the goal is to use it for a few years, and kids get older and they advance to more graphics intensive games.
Mech Warrior Online shows recommended CPU at Passmark score 3790 or higher, 8GB RAM, and hard to understand the way they used difference class levels of graphics, but I would guess a good G3D of at least 1500 as one shows 1262 and the other over 2000. Minecraft is a much lower graphics level.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
The Newegg PC shows graphics at 1586 and CPU at just over 4000 so it seems to be a very good budget choice for the games.

Neither of the two discuss graphics as a 2GB card. Intel starts with an unacceptably low integrated graphics and the AMD A8-5500 is acceptable in CPU at 4229 and built-in Radeon HD 7560D at a 680 score.
The G870 passmark is only 3121 so not high enough and graphics is very low so needs a graphics card add that may require a new power supply.

The second should be enough to play Minecraft very well and Mech Warrior online at basic to midgrade levels, but is below the top level play and will need upgrading one day, so would be good to know all the specs to see how hard it is to upgrade.
If no graphics card,
this standard PC is $500 with A8-5500, 1TB HDD and 8GB RAM.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220218
A G870 system without a graphics card should be under $400.
Just not sure where you are at.

Send me more detail by email about price and exact features and I can reply whether the price is good for what you are getting and what to expect on those games.
You see, an HD 7750 is strong enough to play every modern PC game at reasonable settings, and the FX-4100 is a low budget choice that does work adequately on these low to mid-level gaming.

So far, the 2nd one is better, but the one I show at Newegg is a much stronger graphics card.

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What would help a kid refusing to go to school return to school?

Q. My 8th grade brother has been refusing to go to school or do his homework and instead opting for video games. All of his grades are Fs, and I'm worried about him. My mom has had to call the police three times to make him go, and twice they had to come to our house. Almost every day, my mom is late to work, and her boss is very frustrated with her. She has taken away his video games, computer, and iPad privileges countless times, yet he decides to steal his computer/TV monitors back every time. I'm worried because occasionally my brother gets violent and hits my mom - it's not hard; it's fairly weak slapping. My mom can't be continually late, because she CAN NOT lose this job. I need to figure out a way to help my brother go to school and do his homework. Please help.
@ Wild Dingo: I've tried already, but he just gets greedy after a couple weeks and demands more money.

A. Your mom is lying. He hits her hard sometimes. Forget school, make sure he doesn't grow up to be a jerk who hits women. But don't go to the police, they'll just ruin his life. Get some juvenile rehab. Or a school counselor. Or call in some family or friends at church, particularly a guy older than him who likes video games. To see him regularly.

Also, take ALL of his video games. Hide them OUTSIDE of the house like with a neighbor or friend. Then threaten to sell them if he keeps on abusing the privilege of HAVING them.

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What is required to open a gaming parlor for kids?

Q. I have space in a good locality, want to open computer gaming place for kids,
what are the requirements such as 1.licence, 2.capital, 3.manager 4.equipment (xbox-ps2-3 computers etc) shall appreciate full requirement what is the total investment and returns, break even period etc. what are the points i hav to monitor and pay good attention to get good returns.
shall appreciate guidance, response showing me the right way.

A. Well the requirements where I live are going to be different than the requirements where you live.

Go down to the city counsel, or whoever is responsible for making decisions about buildings in your area, and ask them

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